About Us
The Denbigh Workshop registered as a charity in 2016, as the result of two working mum’s discussing the lack of quality, inclusive and affordable theatre & drama provision for the young people in our area. One of our main aims is to promote personal and community development through positive change and social inclusion. When we set up our inclusive youth theatre to provide an affordable creative activity for young people, we started with just four children, we currently have 36 young people who attend regularly, 5 places for young carers who have been fully funded to attend for the year thanks to CFIW.
In the summer we deliver fully funded Creative Arts summer school to 100 disadvantaged young people living in Denbighshire and have to date, received funding from The Neumark Foundation, Freeman Evans Trust, Denbighshire Leisure Grant, CFIW, Lottery, Tesco, Barclays, Denbigh Town Council, Welsh Church Act Fund and Clocaneog Windfarm.
We currently deliver term time weekly inclusive Saturday morning Youth Theatre at St Brigids school in Denbigh, and the Denbigh Community Choir at the Eirianfa Community Centre.
Most recently we have partnered with 3 other charities to form DEWC and delivered two years of projects for Working Denbighshire including Best Foot Forward in Parenting, Homeless to Happiness and Parents Retreat at Blossom & Bloom and You Can Do It at Denbigh Youth Hwb, and Girls Can Do It for young women in Rhyl.
Our theatre company has provided creative Education & Outreach for three projects for Chester Zoo to primary schools throughout the North West and North Wales. In the summer 2019 we participated in Wildlife Connections festival with Harry, Bee and Rose and 2018 we were chosen to be part of the Wild Worlds Festival promoting and tackling plant blindness with our family-friendly theatre show Tree, Plant Bee & Me.
We have been working with North Wales Police and PACT to deliver our hard-hitting workshop It Could Happen To You, to Year 12 & 13 pupils at senior schools throughout North Wales and to date have reached 500+ pupils.
Denbighshire free press
Raising Awareness Over Plant Blindness
High Sheriff of Clwyd Awards
In March 2024 & 2018 we were awarded the High Sheriff of Clwyd Community Award in Denbighshire in recognition of our work to support disadvantaged young people with our Creative Arts Summer School.
Tracy Spencer - Director
Tracy is a professional actor and co-founder of The Denbigh Workshop, with West End, National No.1 touring theatre, fringe, Rep and TV experience. Credits include Coronation Street, Houdini & Doyle, Emmerdale and Sherlock Holmes, Blood Brothers (Mrs Johnstone & Mrs Lyons) Saturday Night Fever, and Girls Night Out.
Having trained at LIPA, she graduated amongst the first intake with a 1st class BA Hons Degree in Performing Arts/Drama (1998).
She has worked in corporate roleplay for 15 years as an Actor/Facilitator for numerous organisations including the Banking industry, HM Prison Service, JAC, NHS, ONS, Police Crime and Complaints Commission and KPMG.
Tracy tutors LAMDA Musical Theatre, Verse & Prose & Acting at Myddelton College & St Brigid's in Denbigh and facilitates the Denbigh Community Choir at the Eirianfa weekly.
Delighted to be shortlisted as finalist at Womenspire Awards in 2022.
Christine Parle - Facilitator & Tutor
Chris is a professional actor, trained at Elliott-Clarke College in Liverpool. She is an experienced actor with West End, Theatre, Radio and TV credits including most recently seen in The Responder, Cold Feet, Home Fires, Peaky Blinders, Emmerdale, Close to the Enemy, Bodies, Heartbeat & Coronation Street.
Freelance TV technique tutor for Hijinx in North Wales and an Actor/facilitator in roleplay for various companies including JAC and NHS.
Chris appeared as Mimi the lead, in The Denbigh Workshops ‘Tree Plant Bee and Mi’ for Chester Zoo’s Wild World Festival in summer 2018, performing to 1000’s over the 12 week festival and currently performs as Mum in It Could Happen To You our hard hitting road safety workshop with North Wales Police.
Ashleigh Veale - Tutor
Ashleigh has worked as a Saturday Moring Tutor for TDW for a few years now teaching Drama, Acting for TV & Improvisation. He is a huge asset to our youth theatre. He has performed in several plays and musicals and has appeared on TV in Gentleman Jack Season 2 and in the short film The Assistant. Also played Plant in Tree Plant Bee & Mi at the Wild Worlds festival at Chester Zoo.
Ash also teaches for Shine Theatre Arts.
Corrine Parry - Tutor
Corrine is our fabulous vocal coach here at TDW on a Saturday. She is a professional musical theatre performer who started her career aged just 6. She is a soloist and also sings with a band. She is a recording artist with Musical, Panto and TV experience and possesses an incredible voice.
Corrine also teaches for North Wales School of Dance and Powerplay.
