Work Experience Placements
Unpaid (Travel and subsistence reimbursed)

Spend a week with us during the school summer holidays, getting hands-on experience in one of three work experience programmes: Technical Theatre, Theatre Operations, or Marketing

How to Apply:

Applications for 2025 are now closed. Applications will open again in Spring 2026.

Internships: Applications Open!

Paid

Our internships, run in partnership with Masterclass, offer you paid opportunities to work alongside theatre professionals in our venues. Over six weeks, you’ll learn from the best, develop job-specific skills, and bridge the gap between fringe productions and large-scale commercial shows.

How to Apply:
Visit the Masterclass website to check the current openings and application deadlines

CREATIVE VENUE TECHNICIAN APPRENTICESHIP

Paid

As an apprentice at LW Theatres, you’ll work towards a Level 3 Creative Venue Technician Apprenticeship, in partnership with Access Creative College, while gaining valuable skills working on some of the biggest shows in the world across our 6 venues! You’ll work in many different areas of our Technical Departments and there will be a chance to specialise in one area towards the end of the apprenticeship. You’ll learn more about staging and maintaining live theatre from the largest operator of musical theatres in London.

One day per week will be allocated to college work. This day will be scheduled flexibly to fit with college and department requirements. This apprenticeship will provide a fantastic springboard for your future career.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working on shows and technical rehearsals as part of the Stage and Electrics Department.
• Being responsible for the setting and management of scenery, follow spots and lighting desk operation.
• Prepping the show each day and helping to conduct safety checks.
• Working closely with your own team, the visiting company, and its Stage Management to ensure the smooth and safe operation of each show. The safety of everyone backstage, on stage and in the audience is paramount.
• Problem solving during live performances.
• Conducting maintenance on the set, lighting, video, special effects rigs and other technical aspects of the show, so it always looks its best.
• Contributing to ad hoc project work as directed by the Heads of Department.

Applications for 2025 are currently closed. We will open applications on our website for our next cohort in Spring 2026.

Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation x LW Theatres Scholarship

The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation x LW Theatres Scholarship can help you complete a two-year FdA in Technical Production at Mountview. The scholarship covers full tuition fees plus a maintenance bursary.

How to Apply:

Visit the Mountview website for full details on how to apply.