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Drama is on! (no, not the election kind)

Sorie Bangura, Production Manager As the end of the year gets closer and closer, it’s poignant to reflect upon a strange and challenging year. Under the original plan we would have finished the last production for 2020 and be gearing up for the ensemble performance weekend, but as we all…
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ICYMI, we love the arts! 💛✨

Erica Penollar, Marketing Coordinator For a year that’s been given many labels – unprecedented, wild, bizarre, unexpected – slow is not one of them. Sure, it felt like March went on for 10 years rather than 31 days, but the light at the end of the tunnel is getting closer…
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Meet the 2020 Foundation Commission winners!

Meet the 2020 Foundation Commission winners! Junior Foundation (10-13 year old performers) Shack by George Kemp George is a Sydney based actor, director, writer and educator. He trained at London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and is absolutely thrilled to be writing this year’s ATYP Foundation Commission. As…
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Chika Ikogwe – Rose Byrne Scholarship Report 1

ATYP ROSE BYRNE SCHOLARSHIP REPORT 30/09/2020 WHAT. A. YEAR. Cool, just had to get that off my chest. When I initially applied for the Rose Byrne Scholarship, the world was in an incredibly different situation. COVID was starting to knock on the door like “Hey y’all, see you real soon…
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Victoria Zerbst – Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission Blog 2

The Marathon to Musical Situation I submitted my first draft ten days ago. It feels like a fever; like it never happened. But I do want to go back now to those last two weeks and remind myself how challenging they actually were. So I, you know, don’t trick myself…
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CASTING CALL – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performers

CASTING CALL Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) is the national youth theatre company. We exist to connect young people with the professional theatre industry locally, regionally and nationally. ATYP’s Education team, in partnership with the University of Sydney, is producing a series of educational videos designed to demonstrate how…
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