Overview
STAY CREATIVE. STAY CONNECTED.
#NYTStayCreative
To help support you stay creative, connected and supported during this uncertain time we’re launching a programme of online workshops, opportunities, free live-streams and weekly creative challenge from our Artistic Director Paul Roseby.
We've run workshops and Q&As with Rosamund Pike, James Graham, Joan Iyiola and Polly Bennet from Monobox, Luke Barnes and more.
Over 5000 young people have taken part since the start of lockdown, reaching audiences of over 1.5 million,
The Programme
WEEK TEN
NYT Members' Meet Up - with guests Ashley Zhangazha and Simon Lennon
5-6pm Tuesday 26 May
Open to NYT Members
Link to join on the Members Board
Sign up to be emailed a link every week
#NYTStayCreative Weekly Challenge
Directing for Stage and Screen Q&A with Prasanna Puwanarajah
5-6pm Thursday 28 May
Free workshop for NYT members.
Link on the members' board
CONSPIRACY
4pm Friday
Episode 2 of CONSPIRACY on IGTV
Watch Episode 1 here
MIXTAPE - Applications open to perform in the next Sunday Session
5-6pm Sunday 7th June
Live-streamed original music and spoken word from NYT members, curated by Nathan Whitebrook
Apply now to take part:
www.nyt.org.uk/mixtape
WEEK NINE
NYT Members' Meet Up
5-6pm Monday 18 May
Open to NYT Members
Link to join on the Members Board
Sign up to be emailed a link every week
NYT Next Steps Workshop
5-6pm Thursday 21 May
Free workshop with NYT Associate Artists Matt Harrison and Seda Yildiz on how to approach your next audition at NYT and beyond.
Live on YouTube
NYT Backstage Meet-Up
5-6pm Friday 22 May
Find out more about two new projects for Backstage NYT members to get your teeth into
Link on the members' board
Mixtape: Sunday Session - applications open thi
5-6pm Sunday 24 May
Original music and spoken word from NYT talent curated by Nathan Whitebrook
www.nyt.org.uk/mixtape
WEEK EIGHT
Weekly Creative Challenge
Set by leading writer for Stage and Screen James Graham (Quiz ITV, Brexit: The Uncivil War C4, The Crown Netflix) at last week's live-streamed members' Q&A.
Write a scene that features two characters, lasts no longer than three of four pages and includes the following:
1. An object of some significance
2. An anxiety (write a list of 20 things you're worried about and pick one)
3. One character who has something that can't be said
4. The other character has a fear (could be fear of death, could be fear of spiders)
5. Put a 'clock' or 'distraction' on the scene e.g. they're on a train and it's about to leave
Email your scripts to info@nyt.org.uk by Friday 22nd May with JAMES GRAHAM in the title and we'll ask James to feedback on some of the best
NYT Members' Meet Up - featuring guest writer Luke Barnes
5-6pm Monday 11 May
Open to NYT Members
Link to join on the Members Board
Casting Director Workshop -
5-6pm Thursday 14 May
Q&A for NYT members with leading casting directors including Wendy Spon (former-Head of Casting at the National Theatre), Gary Davy. Hosted by NYT Associate Director Anna Niland.
Link to join on the members' board
WEEK SEVEN
NYT Members' Meet Up - featuring guest Squint Theatre Artistic Director Andy Whyment
Monday 4 May - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
This week's Creative Challenge is your creative response to what you're going to keep post-Lockdown. Tag #NYTStayCreative and post on social media or email info@nyt.org.uk to enter by 10am on Monday 4th May and be in with a chance of having your work shared at our weekly Members' Meet.
LINK to join at 5pm on Monday on the Members' Board
or DM us on Twitter or Insta
NYT Members' Q&A with writer James Graham
Thursday 7 May - 5-6pm
Open to NYT members
Link on the Members Board
Mixtape
Sunday 10 May - 5-6pm
Live-streamed original music and spoken word from NYT talent
www.nyt.org.uk/mixtape
Free NYT Workshop Live on TikTok
6-7pm Sunday 10 May
TikTok @NationalYouthTheatre
NYT Quiz Live on Instagram
8-9pm Sunday 10 May
Instagram Live @NationalYouthTheatre
WEEK SIX
NYT Members' Meet Up - featuring special guests The Mono Box
Monday 27 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
LINK to join at 5pm on Monday on the Members' Board
or DM us on Twitter or Insta
The next of our weekly Zoom meet ups for NYT Members, led by members of the NYT Team. A chance to catch up and share your responses to the our weekly Creative Challenge: Puppetry Challenge from NYT Associate Joel Scott.
FREE WORKSHOP with Matt Harrison + Anna Niland, Theatre Director + Associate Director of National Youth Theatre
Zoom Session: 3 p.m. UK time
Join National Youth Theatre and award-winning director and theater-maker, Matt Harrison for a masterclass on making the most of your monologue. Matt will give participants a tool kit of simple and effective exercises you can use to break down a speech, empowering you as actors to make clear, bold and playful choices.
NYT Members' Yoga Workshop
Thursday 23 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT members
Link on the Members Board
RUSH Sunday Session
Sunday 26 April - 5-6pm
Publicly available via YouTube live-stream
www.nyt.org.uk/rush
WEEK FIVE
MIXTAPE Appplication Deadline
Monday 20 April 12 noon
Apply to take part in the next Mixtape
NYT Members' Meet Up
Monday 20 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
LINK to join at 5pm on Monday on the Members' Board
The next of our weekly Zoom meet ups for NYT Members, led by members of the NYT Team. A chance to catch up and share your responses to the our weekly Creative Challenge, your 20 second responses to 'ANIMATE OBJECTS'. Weekly creative challenges are open to all.
Weekly Workshop
Thursday 23 April - 5-7pm
Members' screening of F* Off by Tatty Hennessy
Mixtape Sunday Session
Sunday 26 April - 5-6pm
Publicly available via live-stream
NYT Members' Meet Up
Monday 13 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
The next of our weekly Zoom meet ups for NYT Members, led by members of the NYT Team. A chance to catch up and share your responses to the below weekly Creative Challenge. Find full details on the Members' Board
CREATIVE CHALLENGE FOUR: ANIMATE AN OBJECT - create a 20 second film animating an everyday or recycled objecst. Tag #NYTStayCreative and post on social media or email info@nyt.org.uk to enter by 10am on Monday 20th April and be in with a chance of having your work shared at our weekly Members' Meet.
Here's one from NYT member Megan Bolton to inspire you on TikTok
Producing Workshop with Jessica Hall, NYT Producer
Thursday 16 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
Tune into to this interactive workshop on how to start producing your own work and get started as a producer.
Sunday Sessions: Front Room Film Festival
Sunday 19 April - 7-9pm
Public Livestream - www.nyt.org.uk/frff
The next in our series of online Sunday Sessions - this week we're streaming short films made by NYT members in a festival curated by NYT members Reece Miller and Freya Hannan-Mills.
NYT Members' Meet Up
Monday 6 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
The next of our weekly Zoom meet ups for NYT Members, led by members of the NYT Team. A chance to catch up and share your responses to the below weekly Creative Challenge. Find full details on the Members' Board
CREATIVE CHALLENGE THREE: Your creative response to ‘CONSPIRACY’. Submit your creative responses using the hashtag #NYTStayCreative on social channels or by emailing info@nyt.org.uk. Submit by 10am on Monday 6 April for a chance for your work to be shared during our Members’ Meet Up.
Submissions to Creative Challenges are open to all young people
Scroll down for week 4's challenge #NYTin20
Industry Q+A with NYT Alumna
Thursday 9 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
Tune into our weekly Thursday industry session. This week we'll be talking about self-taping and screen acting with a NYT Alumna who now works on the big screen.
NYT Members' Meet Up
Monday 30 March - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
The next of our weekly Zoom meet ups for NYT Members, led by NYT's Artistic Director Anna Niland. A chance to catch up and share your responses to the weekly Creative Challenge. Find full details on the Members' Board
CREATIVE CHALLENGE TWO: A one minute creative response to ‘STAYING CREATIVE AT HOME.’ It can be in any medium at all, so get creative. Submit your creative responses using the hashtag #NYTStayCreative on social channels or by emailing info@nyt.org.uk and we'll share our favourites across the NYT network.
Submissions to Creative Challenges are open to all young people
Backstage Industry Q+A
Thursday 2 April - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
Join Stage Manager Anthony Papamichael and members of the NYT Team for a Backstage Industry Q+A, focused on how you can keep your interest in technical theatre going whilst we're on lock down. Find full details on the Members' Board.
Sunday Sessions: Mixtape
Sunday 5 April - 5-6pm
Public Livestream
The first of a series of online Sunday Sessions - creative evening livestreams, curated and hosted by NYT Members featuring original work by NYT Members. Mixtape will celebrate the musical talent of NYT members who create original music, song-writing, rap, and spoken word. It will be a relaxed and welcoming evening of new talent.
A National Youth Theatre Member who wants to perform? Submit via the Members' Board
Want to watch on Sunday? Tune into the Livestream here
Live Auditions Workshop
Sat 21 March - 10am-1pm
Open to 2020 NYT Auditionees
A chance for 2020 NYT Applicants who weren't able to attend their audition day in person to take part in a online workshop on physical warm-ups, voice and text work
NYT Members' Meet Up
Monday 23 March - 5-6pm
Open to NYT Members
The first of our weekly Zoom meet ups for NYT Members, led by NYT's Artistic Director Paul Roseby. A chance to catch up and share your responses to the weekly Creative Challenge.
CREATIVE CHALLENGE ONE: A one minute creative response to ‘ISOLATION.’ It could be a poem, a short film, a drawing, song, monologue....anything at all. Submit your creative responses using the hashtag #NYTStayCreative on social channels or by emailing info@nyt.org.uk and we'll share our favourites across the NYT network.
Live Auditions Workshop
Weds 25 March - 10am-1pm
Open to 2020 NYT Auditionees
A chance for 2020 NYT Applicants who weren't able to attend their audition day in person to take part in a online workshop on physical warm-ups, voice and text work
Spoken Word Poetry Workshop
Friday 27 March - 4.45pm-6pm
Open to NYT Members
Open to all abilities, this workshop with give you the chance to empty your busy mind, discover some new approaches to crafting poetry and generate some new material for the page and stage. Bring a notepad and pen, or type on your laptop if you prefer. Full details on the Members' Board.
Venue
Online
