Half Moon is the UK’s leading small-scale young people’s venue and touring company. It is a local organisation with a national remit, committed to supporting artists and young people at every stage of their creative development.
Working from our base in East London, Half Moon specialises in new writing and artform development, acting as a gateway organisation that provides pathways for progression and experimentation.
Half Moon’s wide-ranging programme reaches 50,000 people annually and engages those who are often excluded from arts activity. Our activity includes a season of professional plays for young audiences, national touring productions and an extensive creative learning programme, including seven youth theatres.
Half Moon is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England and receives regular funding from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Find out more at www.halfmoon.org.uk
In January 2025, the company transferred its complete physical and digital archive to the Archives and Special Collections of Queen Mary University of London Archives.
This includes the small physical archive held for many years at Royal Holloway University (ref: HMT1 & HMT2), much of which was digitalised in 2016 and uploaded to this website, Stages of Half Moon.
The vast majority of the archive transfer included an extensive and previously inaccessible physical and digital archive spanning the years 1972 to 2024, that had been stored by the company in Whitehorse Road since 1990.
Enquiries related to the collection should be directed to www.qmul.ac.uk/library/archives
Stages of Half Moon was conceived and produced by the core staff team at Half Moon in 2016:
Beccy Allen – Producer (Creative Learning)
Stephen Beeny – Communications Manager
Euan Borland – Venue and Programmes Administrator
Phil Clarke – Production and Technical Manager
Jackie Eley – Administrative Director
Chris Elwell – Director
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The website is a living archive and we will continue to add information as it comes to light. All information contained in this website is correct to our knowledge, however please advise us of any discrepancies or additional information.
We have made best efforts to credit all individual rights owners contained within this website, however, if there is incorrect or missing information please contact us via history@halfmoon.org.uk.
Half Moon Theatre
43 White Horse Road
London E1 0ND
T: 020 7265 8138
E: admin@halfmoon.org.uk
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