About Us

Since 1986 Matthew Bourne and New Adventures have delighted, inspired and nurtured people of all ages and backgrounds: audiences, artists and the next generation. A lot has happened over the last few decades, so we've compiled some of our milestones from along the way.

Sir Matthew Bourne OBE is widely hailed as the UK’s most popular and successful choreographer and director. Since 1986, he has been creating and directing dance for musicals, theatre, film as well as his own highly successful, award-winning companies.

Find out more about the New Adventures Artistic Director.

Meet the New Adventures artists who bring our productions to life on stage and on screen.

Meet the team of people from across different departments and roles, who enable us to bring our work to audiences across the globe.

Beginning in October we will be celebrating the stories of the freelancers, artists, board and staff members journeys into working in the Arts and demystifying careers in the creative industries.

Presented as micro-interviews; we find out their first experiences of Theatre and working in Performing Arts, something people wouldn't know by looking at them and the advice they would give to their younger selves.

Our company values are:

- Audience

- Adventure

- Family

Find out more about our values and how they relate to what we do.

As a large-scale touring company reaching audiences all over the UK and beyond, we have an opportunity to inspire and inform on environmental sustainability.

Find out how we are setting the stage for sustainable touring with Green Adventures.

To delve into more detail of what our past year has looked like, visit our Year In Review page. Here you can find our detailed Annual Review and our Year In Review film. The breadth and reach of our on stage and off stage work in a single year is documented here.

Find out about upcoming opportunities at New Adventures, including auditions, job vacancies, open workshops and more.