Careers in Paines Plough

Paines Plough is the UK's national theatre of new plays. We commission and produce the best playwrights and tour their plays far and wide. Whether you're in Liverpool or Lyme Regis, Scarborough or Southampton, a Paines Plough show is coming to a theatre near you soon. Paines Plough was formed in 1974 over a pint of Paines bitter in the Plough pub. Since then we've produced more than 130 new productions by world renowned playwrights like Stephen Jeffreys, Abi Morgan, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Dennis Kelly and Mike Bartlett. We've toured those plays to hundreds of places from Manchester to Moscow to Maidenhead.

In 2018, we're producing plays by: Zia Ahmed, Brad Birch, Georgia Christou, Elinor Cook, Anna Jordan, Simon Longman, Isley Lynn, Sarah McDonald-Hughes, Sabrina Mahfouz and Vinay Patel.