City of London 2022-2026 

107 Leadenhall Street 

Dates: 2022-2026 

Ground Floor & Mezzanine 

Expanding to 1st & 2nd floor (2025 - 2026)

Local Authority: City Of London 

Landlord: Frontier Dragon

We began with the Ground floor and Mezzanine studio and 14 rehearsal studios, including 2 black box performance spaces, a calm room and coworking space. We created 5 spaces to be hired by creative companies or artists studios.  

We also had a vibrant cafe bar that hosted meet ups, parties and community events 

The internal artwork was created by Leeds-based artist Nicole Rose Munhawa. 

In 2025 we took on an additional 2 floors in the building, doubling our rehearsal space capacity, and creating additional calm rooms and a prayer room. We also created 2 Creative Pods that were free to book for our members. 

Festivals 

In 2023 the venue hosted the Social Model & More Festival in tandem with our Arley Street venue in Sheffield, curated by Caroline Mawer. 

In 2023 we also hosted and seed funded Black Joy, a one-day festival curated by Black Lives Natter.

In 2024 and 2025 we were one of many venues participating in Voila Festival, London’s multicultural and multi language theatre festival. This included 6 performances performed each weekend of the festival 

2024 and 2025 we hosted performances under our City Fringe banner

In 2024, 2025 and 2026 we hosted Voidspace Live, a festival of interactive art and performance. 

From 2023-2026 we hosted The Smoke, an annual chamber LARP festival. 

Awards 

In 2026 Theatre Deli was awarded by the Lady Mayor Dame Susan Langley for Representing Diverse London during our contribution to the City of London’s Careers Festival and Insight Days.

In 2025 Theatre Deli was awarded a Special Commendation from the ABTT Stephen Joseph Award 2025 panel, "in recognition of delivering creative and adventurous work changing the UK performing arts landscape".

Residency Artists 

Theatre Deli supports talented artists with space, expertise and funding to develop their work. In 2025 two of our four Resident Artists were selected from applicants who live in Enfield, which has historically had less cultural investment and engagement than other London boroughs. For the residency programme we partnered Leadenhall Street with The Dugdale Arts Centre, hosting work-in-progress sharings from our residency artists in the Enfield performance space, after a two-week development period at Theatre Deli Leadenhall Street.

The Theatre Deli 2025 Residency Programme was supported by Arts Council England

Residency Artists 

She who moves everything by Rajeswari Ramaswamy 2025 

That Old Gaff on Meatham Estate by Vinicius Salles 2025

Three Black Boys Living In Zone 6 Waiting For The World To End by Joseph Junkere & Akin Wright 2025 

C*E*O C*V*N*T by Arden Fitzroy  2025 

Kummerspeck by Lilac Yosiphon 2023 

A Life of Tea by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan 2023 

At Once Before And After by Charlotte Ive 2023 

It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure by Flawbored 2022 

Why A Black Woman Will Never Be Prime Minister by Zakkiyah Dean 2022 

I, Lord by Response Ability Theatre 2022 

Shift+Space 

Our early-career development programme for artists to receive live feedback you need to take a project to the next level. SHIFT+SPACE is a free performance opportunity with 100% of Box Office retained by artists, plus seed funding, in-kind rehearsal space and marketing support, all of which is designed to encourage artists to get live audience feedback at an early stage of creating new work.

Previous SHIFT + SPACE artists include theatrical new writing readings, drag/character comedy, shadow puppetry, dance and performance art, sound installations and more! 

Artists receive feedback on their first showing on a Friday and then use their second showing on a Saturday to try out a shifted version the following day.

Shift+Space was supported by the City of London Corporation, Garrick Charitable Trust and Philip Carne MBE. 

11 Seasons of Shift+Space including 112 work in progress performances. 

Some of these included 

High Steaks by Eloina 

Plewds by Kathrine Payne

You wake up/octopus by mushmoss collective

Uproar by Moyra Silva & Carolina Rieckhof

The Planet Is_____ by Natasha Pavey and Meg McGrady

 That F*cking Seagull, or Why Masha Always Wears Black

 The Home Project by Moi Ko Theatre

Identity Kaleidoscope by D'Filth Drag

CAMPitalism: Three Gays Try to Fix The Economy by BOY Theatre

Standing Ovation by X.O.

Her and the Voice in Her Head by Lorraine Adeyefa

Meat Me in Shoreditch by Valery Reva

For the Love of Jollibee by Sierra Sevilla

The Road to Kasese by Eddie Kagutuzi

Communities in Residence 

Black Lives Natter 

Industry Tea 

Shakespeare Unstaged 

Delicious Open Mic 

Queer Craft Cafe 

Poets of Colour 

Voidspace

Interactive Soup 

ReViVe 

Art Installations 

You threw me from my path and drove away by Georgia Wesley

Mark Meilack | Fool's Paradise

Bims Ayorinde | A Universal Experience

Tuco Ramirez and Me by Tamsin Parker

"I SEE YOU" complex simplicity by Priscilla Acquah-Arhin

The Sunflower Project by Muna Ko

Where I'm From by Jennifer McTair

An Ode: Reframing the Classics

Trish Fried Rice

Amy Daja & Leila Lawrence

Matilda Ellis

Home on Me

Contemporary Textiles London

Haans Jets

Jasmine Kahlia

Joshua Corley

Caroline Mawer

Delivision 

Delivision offers artists free space to present their film or video project in Theatre Deli's Leadenhall Street venue. 

During our time at Leadenhall Street we displayed 28 short films including: 

Limas Utópicas by Corpusmedio (Moyra Silva & Adele Fournet)

Eat Like A Lady by agapyearforthesoul

The Gaza Monologues by Khai & Faizal

A Collection of Films from Magpie Dance| Magpie Dance

The Kitchen by Vishwakiran Nambi

Asians Have Feelings Too by The Mollusc Dimension

Office Spaces and Artists studios 

Alina Kotzepe 

Make with Mermaid 

Phosphorus Theatre 

Phantom Peak 

ManWigs 

Molly Morphew 

Mallika Joy

Deli Meets 

50 Deli Meets Events Including: 

Yoruba Dance Experience 

Personal Finance For Artists Workshops with Second Brain Collective 

Devising Jams with Halfpace Theatre 

Special FX Make Up with Tamara Dickson 

Playwriting and reading workshops 

Producing with The Project People 

Lou Stein Acting Studio 

Dance, Yoga, Stretching, Clowning and so much more!