Under the scheme of Assistance to Young Theatre Artistes, the Akademi has initiated a training programme in which four to five workshops are organized zone-wise every year. Under this programme, the Akademi, in collaboration with Ustad Alauddin Khan Sangeet Evam Kala Akademi, Bhopal organized a residential workshop for young theatre artistes of Madhya Pradesh from at Pachmarhi. This was the first workshop in the Central Zone. A total of 145 applications was received: 25 young theatre artistes were selected to participate in the workshop.

Sri Alakhnandan and Shri Vijay Singh were the Camp Director and Coordinator respectively. Visiting experts included Shri G.P. Deshpande (Modern Indian Drama), Shri Bhaskar Chandavarkar (Theatre Music), Shri H.V. Sharma (Set & Costume), Shri Rudraprasad Sengupta (Theatre Management), Shri Ashok Sagar Bhagat (Lighting Design), Shri Prabhakar Bhave
(Make-up & Masks), Shri Sachin Tewari (Western Drama), Shri Alakhnandan (Creating Performance Text), Shri Vageesh Kumar Singh (Acting: Improvisation), Shri Harish Pathak (Play Reading, Analysis and Criticism), Shri Alok Chatterjee (Acting:
Voice & Speech), Shri Moinul Haque (Mime), Shri Madhav Barik (Movement), Regional experts who were invited to the workshop included Shri Rajendra Avasthi and Shri Vasant Nirgune.