Thank you to our NDFA Partners
First of all, a massive thank you to Nick Hern Books, our Principle Partner for the 2025/26 season, whose contribution has enabled us to keep the ticket prices as low as they are, and hold the festival at ARTRIX Bromsgrove.
If you’re looking to set your group up for festival victory, a Nick Hern Books play is clearly an excellent place to start!
We’ve teamed up with publishers and performing rights agents Nick Hern Books as the NDFA Principal Partner this year to provide you with suggestions for selecting your plays, give you guidance on negotiating script cuts, and support you with one-on-one support with any questions you may have during your play selection process.
They’re also offering discounts for script purchases.
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Thank you to TryBooking for subsidising the 2026 festival groups' festival costs with a generous donation!
Since 2014, NDFA Corporate Partner, TryBooking, has been supporting UK theatres, drama festivals and amateur dramatics groups to help bring their events to life with simple, easy-to-use online ticketing and friendly UK-based support. From reserved seating and ticket scanning to on-the-night sales, TryBooking gives organiser the tools they need to keep audiences booking and performances running seamlessly.
With low transparent fees and features designed for events of all sizes, TryBooking is used by venues, performers, and community groups across the UK – no matter the size.
Joan from TryBooking will be at the 2026 National Drama Festival so come along and say hello!
See a selection of plays Concord have selected as potentials for Theatre Festivals and enjoy 10% off scripts using the code NDFA.
NDFA Corporate Partner, Concord Theatricals, comprises the catalogues of Samuel French, R&H Theatricals, Tams-Witmark, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, plus dozens of new signings each year.
They provide truly comprehensive services to the creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and producing.
As Ticketsource say on their site: “Designed by event organisers for event organisers, we’ve been in your shoes, experienced the same ticketing challenges and scaled the same ticketing peaks… basically, we get it.” And they certainly do!
Sell Tickets Online | Free Event Ticketing with TicketSource
Still based in the Welsh seaside town of Penarth where it all began, NDFA Corporate Partner, TicketSource, started with “a lightbulb moment” for their founder, Simon Wilsher. Simon realised he could bring his two interests in amateur theatre and computer science together and offer a solution enabling people to book tickets online. TicketSource was launched in 2004 and transformed the ticket-selling opportunities for local theatre groups.
They now handle ticket sales for almost 90,000 events each year, from sporting tournaments to literary festivals and everything in between.
Thanks to New Playwriting Partner, Stagescripts, we’re able to run the Derek Jacobi Playwriting competition, the winner of which receives a publishing deal from Stagescripts and a £250..
Stagescripts is a trusted licensing company run by theatre professionals with decades of experience on and off stage. Their curated catalogue includes over 1,000 carefully selected plays, musicals, and pantomimes – from fresh, undiscovered writing to well-loved classics.
Stagescripts Ltd | Discover exceptional plays, musicals & pantomimes
The Little Theatre Guild is a charity in the UK supporting 127 independent member theatres (many of which provide a venue for theatre festivals). We’re proud to be a partner of LTG, supporting them in their work.
With the NDFA helping to further the advancement of amateur theatre through the festival movement, and the Little Theatre Guild looking after and satisfying the needs of 127 theatres independent theatres … the synergy is clear!
We’re pleased to be associated with the Little Theatre Guild.
See the list of the 127 LTG members: independent theatres across the UK