The Billingham Players are a Registered Charity, No. 515721

The Billingham Players

The Billingham Players were founded as a social group attached to the ICI works in Billingham. For years, we performed at the Synthonia Club, before moving to our current home at the Theatre Upstairs. There is no such thing as a typical Billingham Players production, and we hope to come out with something for everyone, whether you're looking for comedy, drama, musicals or whatever.

The Theatre Upstairs

The Theatre Upstairs has been our home since the late Seventies. We have no fixed stage, allowing us to be adventurous with our sets and seating arrangements - regular audience members never know what to expect when they walk through the auditorium doors, as our seating is rarely arranged the same way for two shows in a row!

We can fit around 100 audience members into our auditorium, although this varies according to the exact seating layout required for the performance. However the auditorium is layed out, our little theatre gives a wonderful, intimate feel to our productions.

The theatre is managed and staffed entirely by the Billingham Players, and everybody from the costume department and technical crew to our bar staff and building maintenance people are volunteers from the society.