Welcome!
We have created the Lung Ha Access and Creative Principles Toolkit, a resource for individuals and organisations with guidance on working with learning-disabled adults. Drawn from over 40 years of experience in making theatre performances with learning disabled actors, and from research with members of our current ensemble, the toolkit aims to create inclusive work environments for disabled and non-disabled people, in creative and practical ways.
We use these principles, tools and methods to help us make fabulous, award-winning theatre, but we believe they can be used in many types of settings. We hope that they allow you to open up opportunities to work more inclusively in whatever you do.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of places we’d love to see the toolkit in practice:
- Rehearsal room
- On the stage
- Production companies
- Classroom
- Office/workplace
- Training room
- Community group
- Recruitment
- Lectures and seminars
- Clubs and societies
- Customer service
To request a copy of the first edition of the Access and Creative Principles Toolkit, please complete the form below. This is a free to access resource for Scottish-based performance artists, practitioners and organisations. It is also available to purchase, with discounts available for charities. To enquire, please use the form below.
Our accompanying training workshops, presentations and consultancy offers can provide personalised advice and guidance for your organisation, project or individual practice. Please get in touch for more information or costings via the form below or by emailing info@lungha.com
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BACKGROUND
Lung Ha Theatre Company, with the generous support of The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust, commissioned multiple areas of research with the aim of exploring future methods of sharing our expertise and broadening opportunities for learning disabled artists.
This research took place alongside and was informed by the launch of the Lung Ha Touring Company, and will continue to develop in parallel to this and with the Creative Development strands of our Pathway for Progression.
Lung Ha Access and Creative Principles Toolkit Team
Jessica Moran – Researcher
Ali Wilson – Project Manager
Heather Cumming – Designer
Eliza Gearty – Toolkit Co-ordinator (joined April 2026)
With Thanks To
Federation of Scottish Theatre, Lung Ha actors and Trustees, Lung Ha Associate Artists, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, Royal Lyceum Theatre, and many more sector colleagues who supported this research.
Lung Ha Theatre Company is funded by Creative Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council and in partnership with a number of trusts and foundations. This project is funded by The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust.
