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The Creative Arts Team Youth Theatre is divided into three companies: the Youth Theatre (for young people in high school), the JUNIOR Youth Theatre (for young people in junior high school), and the Ensemble (a training and performing company of former Youth Theatre members aged 18-25).
Each company consists of members from the five boroughs of New York City, who meet weekly, after school, from September through May to explore their ideas and creativity and to build their skills through theatre games and exercises, improvisations and scene work, rehearsal, critical reflection and group discussion.
Students
participate free-of-charge and there is no audition for admission;
students are admitted on a first-come first-served basis, with a
membership of around 35 members and a waiting list. New members are
admitted each semester. Under the dynamic facilitation and direction of
CAT's staff of theatre professionals, the Youth Theatre companies
create and perform a number of shows each year.
Youth
Theatre members are also given opportunities to contribute to the
graduate classes offered by CAT's Kaplan Center. Graduate students and
others studying in the field of educational theatre are given the
chance to gain "hands on" experience working with our young people. The
young people receive stipends in recognition of their valuable
contributions.
Since its founding in 1995, the CAT Youth Theatre has presented many
original shows, all devised or written by the company. It has held a
12-hour, non-stop, sponsored improvisation marathon, and appeared at a
wide variety of events including conferences and festivals. It has
performed, by invitation, in Chicago and London and for the United
Nations.
These many and varied experiences broaden students' horizons, help them
to develop a wide range of personal and interpersonal skills, and offer
them powerful experience of building, and being part of, a special
community.
In June 2000 Helen White was awarded the Youth Theatre Director of the
Year Award by the American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE).
- Youth Theatre Member
"It was some of the best theatre I have seen in a long time"
- Youth Theatre Audience Member
Click HERE for the CAT Youth Theatre Application
For more information about joining the CAT Youth Theatre,
please call us directly at 212.652.2828 or contact our
Youth Theatre Administrator at Elly.Richards@mail.cuny.edu
CAT Offices - 101 West 31st Street, 6th Floor - New York, New York 10001
