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Omnibus Theatre

Website: https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/

Contact: Marie McCarthy (Artistic Director)
General contact email: enquiries@omnibus-clapham.org

Address: Omnibus Theatre, 1 Clapham Common Northside, SW4 0QW

Do you curate your shows: Yes

Do you produce in-house: Yes

Do you accept dry-hire: Yes

Preferred programming: New Writing, Classics Reimagined, LGBTQ+ work, Bold and innovative storytelling

Configurations: We have three performance spaces, our Main Theatre, the Common Room, and our Upstairs Studio – all spaces are fully flexible and can adapt into any preferred confirguration.

Audience capacity:
Main Theatre – 89 – 110 seats
Common Room – 40 seats
Studio Upstairs – 65 seats

Stage floor size/width: 17.6m x 7.3m [height: 3.7m, area 128m2]

Omnibus Theatre is a multi-award-winning independent theatre in Clapham, South London. Finalist in the Fringe Theatre of the Year 2020 and 2023 The Stage Awards, Off-West End Award winner 2018 and 2020, and recipient of the Peter Brook/Royal Court Theatre Support Award in 2016. The heart of the organisation’s ambitious programme lies in classics re-imagined, modern revivals and new writing. Omnibus Theatre also provides a platform for LGBTQ+ work and aims to give voice to the underrepresented and challenge perceptions. Since opening in 2013 notable in-house productions include Woyzeck (2013), Macbeth (2014), Colour (2015), Mule (2016), Spring Offensive (2017), Zeraffa Giraffa (2017), Queens of Sheba (2019), The Little Prince (2019), RICE! (2021), The Human Connection (2021), The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying (2021), FIJI (2022), SAD (2022) and DRUM (2022), COMPOSITOR E (2023), ICE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2024)

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Eligibility 

In order to be eligible for a show to be listed on this site, or to be considered for an award, a show:

  • Must be a professional production with paid performers and creatives
  • Profit-share could be eligible if the performers are known to be professionals
  • Must not be eligible for an Olivier award