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Join our Mentoring Collective

Posted 03 Dec 2024 by Chenika Neunie

Ali Wright

National Youth Theatre is offering over 500 young Londoners creative mentoring opportunities.

Combining NYT’s award-winning and industry-recognised training programmes with new focused support strands, young people will build skills, confidence, and networks that lead to creative careers.

Funded by the Greater London Authority New Deal for Young People, you will receive group mentoring from the National Youth Theatre team, our Associate Artists, and other industry professionals.

  • Dates for each group are listed below.
  • Some sessions are online, and some are in person at our NYT building in North London; please check the details below.
  • You can only take part in one mentoring group, but you may express interest in more than one.

Please read the descriptions below and then fill in the short application form and access rider (if applicable).

You must:

  • Be aged 16-25 (or up to 30 if you are learning disabled)
  • Have a London postcode
  • Be able to attend all the sessions

Apply here

Rolling Recruitment

These opportunities are being filled on a rolling basis, so please apply as soon as possible for the collectives you are interested in. Collectives will close once they are full. We may be releasing more collectives soon. We will prioritise people who haven’t been part of a mentoring opportunity with NYT yet.

LINK: https://form.jotform.com/243123737614353

Collectives

Sophie Ellerby and Anna Spearpoint - Writing Collective

Aimed at writers looking for guidance in their career, how to establish themselves as a writer in the industry, whilst also working toward developing one idea for a new piece of writing for stage or screen, writing a treatment and a short sample of work to get feedback on.

Dates:

16th December 2024 (16/12/2024) - Online

6th January 2025 (06/01/2025) - Online

13th January 2025 (13/01/2025) - Online

20th January 2025 (20/01/2025) - Online

10th February 2025 (10/02/2025) - Online

17th February 2025 (17/02/2025) - Online

Time: 19:00 - 21:00 (7pm-9pm)

Laurie Ogden - Poetry Collective: From Page to Stage

Whether you are an open mic pro or new to working with your own words, this poetry collective focuses on developing your unique voice. Through in person sessions, we will generate new writing and challenge the expectations of what poetry can be, looking at work from UK and international poets for inspiration. Topics include: beating the blank page, writing as activism, how to edit, and performance techniques. There will be opportunities to share your work, both on the page and the stage (details TBC).
Dates:

20th January 2025 (20/01/2025) - In-person

27th January 2025 (27/01/2025) - In-person

3rd February 2025 (03/02/2025) - In-person

24th February 2025 (24/02/2025) - In-person

3rd March 2025 (03/03/2025) - In-person

10th March 2025 (10/03/2025) - In-person

Time: 18:30 - 20:30 (6:30pm-8:30pm)

Location:

National Youth Theatre, 443-445 Holloway Road, London, N7 6LW

National Youth Theatre would like to thank Greater London Authority’s New Deal for Young People, supported by the Mayor of London through the Propel collaboration, for their support of our Mentoring Collectives.