Working with talented young actors aged 8 to 25 year olds.

Molly Windsor receives Leading Actress BAFTA Award
"I am so grateful to have trained with Talent 1st - Their continued support is invaluable"
Molly Windsor
We are an industry leading not-for-profit organisation committed to improving social mobility within the acting profession.
COVID-19:
The latest updates for our students and industry colleagues.
Following the latest advice from the UK government, we have closed the Talent 1st office, the Nottingham studio and all on-site school training until restrictons are eased. This action has been taken to protect our team members and students.
Our team are now working from home and will be available to support our students and industry colleagues as usual by email or phone.

Liv Hill makes her theatre
debut in Carol Churchill's Top Girls
Welcome to The Talent 1st Organisation.
With over 32 years of combined industry experience, our team continues to be at the forefront of discovering, developing and delivering exceptional young talent from all walks of life.
We deliver free open workshops to young people aged 8 to 25 years throughout the year. From these workshops, we select a small number of exceptionally talented young people to benefit from our industry renowned program of ongoing workshops and industry support, delivered in-house at our famous Nottingham studio or in schools via our School Partnership programme.

We are committed to discovering and developing exceptional young talent from all walks of life.

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