Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company is an award-winning community theatre group which presents popular musicals, operas and light operettas.

Based in Saffron Walden, Essex, the Company presents two shows a year through its adult group and its youth section.

In its history there is hardly a show that SWMTC has not tackled, performing works by all the major musical theatre composers, including Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Lionel Bart and Stephen Sondheim. It has also presented the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss II.

Adult members of the Company put on a show annually in the spring. Our Youth Group performs in the autumn each year and features performers who range from 11 through to 18. These productions take place in Saffron Walden Town Hall.

Over the years the Company has won many awards. Most recently our 2025 Youth Group production of Guys and Dolls won Best Youth Production and Best Technical Award at the NODA East Awards and Mia Sartin was awarded Best Youth Performer for her role as Miss Adelaide in the same production. Please see our NODA Awards page for more details and previous production successes.

SWMTC is proud of the professionalism of its musicals and we often employ professional directors, musicians and choreographers to ensure that our shows are of the highest standards .

The Company was formed in 1922 as Saffron Walden Amateur Operatic Society. In 2007 it changed its name to Saffron Walden Musical Theatre Company.

Its Youth Group has been presenting shows since 1976.

We are a welcoming society that encourages involvement from anyone, young or old, who would like to be involved in putting on shows, whether as a performer, technician or part of the back stage team. Our commitment has ensured that many of our young performers have moved on to drama schools and work in the professional theatre.