About BLCK
BLCK Productions CIC is a community-focused creative organisation creating accessible opportunities for Black stage and screen creatives across the North.
We're building a home where Black creatives can find their people, share ideas, develop their work, learn from industry professionals and build lasting relationships.
Access is central to what we do. Through community gatherings, workshops, conversations and creative projects, we want to make opportunities more accessible and help build a stronger, more connected creative community across the North.
Alongside this, we develop and produce our own creative work, bringing stories to life and creating opportunities for Black creatives.
We're building for the long term, because we don't just want to see ourselves here once. We want to see ourselves here, consistently.
Our Story
BLCK Productions was founded by actor Brianna Douglas in October 2025, after years of hearing the same advice:
“Make your own work.”
But it got Brianna thinking: where are the spaces for Black stage and screen creatives in the North to find each other, support each other and build something together?
Talented Black creatives are making work across theatre, film and television, but finding your people, building industry relationships and accessing opportunities isn't always straightforward.
BLCK began with the intention of creating work. It has grown into something bigger: a community where Black creatives can connect, learn, share work and access opportunities.
Meet the Founder
Brianna Douglas is an actor, writer and the founder of BLCK Productions. With over 10 years of experience working across the UK, she has built her career from the North while working nationally across stage and screen.
As her career developed, creating her own work and having greater autonomy over her creativity and career became a natural next step - not relying solely on being given the opportunity to act, but having the freedom to create and perform on her own terms. Through her own experience in the industry, Brianna also recognised the need for a stronger, more consistent community for Black creatives in the North.
BLCK brings those two things together: a production company creating work and a community built around the Black creatives who make it possible.
She founded BLCK to bring these two things together: creating her own work while building the kind of creative community she wished had existed throughout her journey — one where Black creatives can find connection, support and opportunity.