A registered charity since 2006, we provide a free one-year accredited training course for young actors (aged 18-24). Alongside this qualification these young actors volunteer their time to tour our original educational plays throughout Surrey, reaching around 15,000 young people (aged 8-18) with peer-led preventative messages about mental health, wellbeing and crime. Delivered by young peer educators, our work hits home with significance and power. Theatre is a powerful tool for education and transformation.

We also provide peer-led outreach workshops, particularly focusing on working with learning disabled young people. Young people are at the heart of our work. Each year our young actor- educators feed in to the development of new and established projects ensuring our work remains fresh, relevant and engaging.

Man Up is a play about being a boy and becoming a man for young people of all genders in year 9 and above from playwright Nina Lemon (Masking, Hidden, Losing It, The Forest in Between). It comes with comprehensive teachers’ pack.

In light of growing evidence showing a notable increase in misogynistic attitudes among young people, we developed this new play aimed at empowering and uplifting young men, as well as their communities and people of all genders who support them.

Man Up tells the story of childhood friends Lottie and ogan as they navigate growing up together and try to work out how to act and how to be in an increasingly confusing world where no one knows the rules any more.

Peer Productions

Awarded 2024-2025