The APGRD has run and co-organised a range of innovative collaborative development programmes, including: developing new performances inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, training graduate students and early career researchers in public engagement, and co-hosting summer schools for students and theatre practitioners.

The APGRD is delighted to support BADA (the British American Drama Academy) in their summer programme, Greek Theatre: From the Ancient World to the Modern, Through Theory and Performance. The programme's interdisciplinary model makes it suitable for students and theatre practitioners at various stages of their careers. 

Participants spend ten days in London before travelling to Greece for ten days, and then returning for a final residency in Oxford with the APGRD. See BADA's website for full details.

In addition to these development programmes, the APGRD hosted the annual Ars Longa Essay Prize for three years. Instigated by Professor Richard Rose, essays were submitted on the theme of: Arthur Miller and the Greeks (2015); Strauss and Greek tragedy (2014), and Wagner and Greek tragedy (2013). Prize-winning essays included:

• 'Helen with the Blue Dress on: Strauss' Die Ägyptische Helena' by Lissa Crofton-Sleigh.
• 'Form and Money in Wagner's Ring and Greek Tragedy' by Richard Seaford.
• 'Wagner and the Classical Tradition: Ideas and Action' by Michael Silk, Ingo Gildenhard, and Rosemary Barrow.