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Remembering Simon Masters

Posted 22 Oct 2025

Joe Duggan

Last week we received the sad news that National Youth Theatre alumnus and author Simon Masters has passed away. Simon wrote ‘National Youth Theatre’ the first and only book written about the charity that was published by Longman Young Books Ltd in 1979. In a guest post this week Chris Smith, a contemporary of Simon’s in NYT remembers him.

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