The Akademie věd České republiky (Czech Academy of Sciences) and APGRD have developed a research project Cold War Classics, which involves a comparison of theatre, classics, and scholarship in the East and West of Europe from 1946 to 1989. Funding from the Czech Academy will allow for the development of an interactive website to showcase the project's research findings.

The APGRD has been running an Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium with the University of London on the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama since 2000. This two-day event is spent both in London and in Oxford, and provides a forum for postgraduates from all over the world who work on ancient drama as practitioners, writers, or researchers in Classics, Theatre, and Translation Studies. In recent years the symposium has been generously supported by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the Classical Association, enabling us to make travel bursaries available for students.

The European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama (Arc-Net) was formed in 1995 under the direction of Platon Mavromoustakos and the APGRD's Oliver Taplin. It organised a number of meetings and a series of highly successful summer schools at Epidaurus and Laurion. In June 2023 the network transferred (with Prof. Mavromoustakos) to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The main goals of this academic network are to improve the teaching of ancient drama, via interdisciplinary and comparative activities; to promote and initiate comparative analyses on the role and function of ancient drama - and its adaptations and recreations - across Europe; and to provide opportunities for multicultural encounters between students, teachers, and performers.

The APGRD is proud of its affiliation with Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX), based at St Hilda's College Oxford, which provides a major forum for dance scholarship internationally, promoting dialogue between prominent academic disciplines and the worlds of dance theory and practice. The APGRD and DANSOX co-host regular events relating to ancient Graeco-Roman dance, the idea of the ancient dancer in the modern world, contemporary choreography of ancient drama and epic and on choral movement in dance drama and theatre.

The academic partnership with New York University's Hemispheric Institute began in September 2023 when our Archiving Performance in the Digital Present project brought together members of HEMI, ReTAGS, and the APGRD to discuss issues relating to the documentation of performances from across the global south. Since then, HEMI, APGRD, and ReTAGS have taken initial steps to form a research consortium.

In 2022, the APGRD was granted funds under the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership scheme (OXIBER) to collaborate with the ​Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin, to begin work on a project entitled 'Shaping antiquity through the archive: construction, reconstruction, composition'. Sixteen researchers from Oxford and Berlin, including doctoral and early career researchers as well as the projects' two archivists, participated in two workshops in Oxford (May 2022) and Berlin (July 2022). Drawing on their respective archival collections, the researchers focussed on a central question: what does a history of theatre and performance look like when it attends to the specificities (in terms of production, distribution, and curation) of different media? OXIBER provided further funding to support a two-week scoping project by APGRD research associate Marcus Bell, focussed on the ​Institut für Theaterwissenschaft's audiovisual archives (June 2024).

The APGRD has been working closely with the Mellon-funded ReTAGS project (Reimagining Tragedy in Africa and the Global South) at the University of Cape Town since 2020 when ReTAGS’s Principal Investigator Mark Fleishman delivered an APGRD Public Lecture while on a research trip to Oxford. Since then, the two projects have co-organised a series of workshops related to Performing Archives in the Digital Present and co-hosted two international hybrid conferences on Tragedy in the Global South, in Oxford (September 2023) and in Cape Town (November 2023). In 2022, APGRD doctoral student Leo Kershaw was hosted by the ReTAGS team during a research trip, and Mark Fleishman and his Co-Investigator Mandla Mbothwe discussed their project on the APGRD Podcast.