Australian Theatre for Young People

Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) is a Sydney-based theatre company for young people.

Their workshop program is Australia's largest and most comprehensive workshop program for young people. The workshop program at atyp includes school holiday workshops and a semester ensemble program.

Up to 12 workshops are offered per week ranging in ages from 5 to 18 years old during NSW school term times. Semester Ensemble classes focus on a foundation of skills, creativity and storytelling, finishing with a theatrical performance at the end of semester.

atyp’s holiday workshops run during every school holidays – 4 weeks in Summer, and 2 weeks during every other break. They include acting, physical theatre, music theatre, design, playwriting, camera performance, circus, clown and many other specialist areas.

atyp has a masterclass program for young people aged 18 to 26, and in 2012 atyp introduced the signature series masterclasses - opportunities for young adults to spend time with theatre practitioners. atyp also offers specialist workshops for schools, community groups, organisations and arts companies.

atyp mounts up to eight productions a year. These might be radical versions of classics, new plays by young writers, devised performances, physical theatre, or plays written for the company by leading Australian writers, such as Alana Valentine's Grounded, Kate Mulvany and Ann-Louise Sarks' Medea and Max Remy Super Spy by Deborah Abela, adapted by Jo Turner.

These productions have featured in major Festivals such as the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival (Stephen Sewell's version of Aristophanes' Birds), 2002 Sydney Festival (Kinderspiel, a collaboration with Theater an der Parkaue, Germany's largest theatre for children and young people), 2003 Shell Connections festival for the National Theatre, London (Brokenville by Philip Ridley), and 2004 Sydney Festival (The Musicians/Eclipse, a co-production with the National Theatre's Young Company [UK]). Productions have toured regionally, nationally and internationally; and regularly involve many of Australia's leading directors, designers and writers.

Under the Wharf is a platform to help emerging professional theatre makers help themselves. Established in response to feedback from artists in their first five years of practice, the program provides practical opportunities to apply theatre skills in the real world.

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