We want to share our practice and ways of working to widen opportunities for young people in theatre and beyond.
Our training courses are a practical, fun and engaging introduction to how we work. They’ve been created in discussion with youth theatre makers and are for anyone interested in meaningfully collaborating with young people.
Our training is delivered by our Artistic Director and Joint-CEO Nuna Sandy and our Associate Director Mariana Aristizabal Pardo, building on years of experience working with young people and across the theatre and dance sectors.
We offer a range of training, including a two day training course, continued professional development for teachers, shorter online courses, and bespoke training delivered at your organisation.
We aim for our courses to be welcoming, fun and inclusive. We want everyone to be able to come on our courses. If you are unable to afford the full fee or experience barriers in accessing the theatre industry, please email Gabi to request a subsidised place.
“This will speak to my young people.”
Course participant
Upcoming Training Courses.
Make, Shake, Scribble: Intro to Co-Creation with C3
Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2025, 10:00-16:00
Islington Central Library, London
Led by our Artistic Director Nuna Sandy and our Associate Director Mariana Aristizábal Pardo, this hands-on course will show you how to create devised plays with teenagers about the topics, ideas and stories they care about the most.
As well as an introduction to co-creation practice and methodology, this workshop will focus on how to:
Make - Exercises and tools to generate ideas and start a co-creation process.
Shake - How to incorporate movement and choreography to help tell a story.
Scribble - How writing activities can develop the process further.
This is a practical workshop with time to apply exercises and trial learning with the group. Everyone will leave with a toolkit of practical exercises, information and feedback, created in collaboration with the cohort to support in your co-creation journey.
Course cost
We deliver courses because we think it's important to share practice and provide spaces for artists to grow and learn.
As a charity, we rely on the income from our training courses to sustain and grow our work with young people. This course has been carefully developed through years of practice and reflection at Company Three, drawing on the expertise and experience of our skilled facilitators. Every payment made for this course directly supports our work with young people.
The full price of this course is £250, but we offer a number of subsidised options to make it accessible to as many people as possible.
£250 – Full Price
If you’re able to pay the full cost of delivering this course, or if your organisation or employer is covering the fee, please select this option.
£150 – Self funded rate
If you are freelancing or paying for your own place, please choose this option.
£75 – Subsidised rate
If the course fee would otherwise be a barrier to your participation, you can select this option.
Short Courses.
Wellbeing, Care and Supporting Young People in the rehearsal room
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 11:00-13:00
Online
£20
Right now, practitioners working with teenagers are meeting increasingly complex needs. Young people’s mental health was listed as one of the largest challenges in the Youth Theatre Census 2024, and youth theatres are needing to provide a wide range of pastoral support.
Wellbeing and care is central to Company Three’s practice - it’s fundamental that young people can feel appreciated, safe and have fun in all our sessions.
This short workshop offers practical tools and advice to centre wellbeing and care, for adults working on creative projects with young people who are already juggling a lot.
Future courses.
Building impactful relationships with schools
Wednesday 28 January 2026, 18:00-2:00
Online
£20
We’ve been delivering drama workshops in local primary and secondary schools for over a decade.
This short course - delivered by our Artistic Director Nuna Sandy - shares best practices for building relationships with schools and ideas around programme offers exploring one off workshops, short projects and longer term offers.
Meet our trainers
Nuna Sandy, Artistic Director and Joint-CEO
Before becoming Company Three’s Artistic Director, Nuna was a member of the Olivier award-winning company Boy Blue Entertainment, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, and one of the founding members of the dance group Plague. She has worked as a teacher, choreographer, movement director and Facilitator for companies including Lyric Hammersmith and London Studio Centre, and has choreographed performances at Sadlers Wells, Barbican Centre, the Place and the Pleasance Theatre.
During her time at C3 Nuna has directed two sold out runs of #Blackis… At the Pleasance Theatre and New Diorama.
Mariana Aristizabal Pardo, Associate Director
Mariana is a Colombian theatre maker based in London. Mariana's work explores the intersections between cultures and languages through collaborative methodologies. She has presented work in Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, The Netherlands and the UK.
She is co-director of the award-winning company MarianaMalena Theatre, a channel to amplify female and Latinx stories in the UK. As director, associate director, assistant director and/or facilitator Mariana has worked for theatres like the RSC, Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Chipping Norton, Old Vic, LIFT Festival, Arcola Theatre, Blue Elephant, The Omnibus, The Space, Southwark Playhouse, amongst others. She is beena reader for the Burntwood Prize and the Woven Voices Prize.
With C3 Mariana has led workshops on wellbeing and session planning for organisations like ArtsDepot and the National Theatre.
