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Our Mini Winter Festival

Before we rugged up and headed into the winter school holidays, there was a mini theatre festival at ATYP! Over one weekend our theatre was lit up by 18 short plays created and performed by our weekly workshop ensembles. Each week young participants aged K – 12 spend time with…
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Big Things Coming…

Begin the slow motion walk, push the eyebrows together just enough to denote concentration but not so much as to look like you’re in pain, slight hair flick, cue the dramatic music. Prepare yourself! Epic things are happening at ATYP! Dun dun dunnn! Today we are thrilled to announce that…
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April at ATYP

As we enter April, a few events recently have prompted me to reflect on the way theatre with young people has changed. I was re-reading Lachlan Philpott’s new work Michael Swordfish (which is about to be published by Currency Press) and I was struck by the remarkable level of sophistication, subtlety and detail…
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ATYP Wins 2016 Sidney Myer Group Award

Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) are honoured to have won the Group Award of the 2016 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards announced by Carrillo Gantner AO, Chair of the Sidney Myer Fund at Cranlana in Melbourne on Tuesday 4 April 2017.  The Award recognises ATYP as a major contributor…
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2017 Rose Byrne & Rebel Wilson Scholarship Winners Announced

ATYP ANNOUNCE RECIPIENTS OF 2017 ROSE BYRNE & REBEL WILSON SCHOLARSHIPS Following an even bigger response to the second year of applications, Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) international ambassadors Rose Byrne and Rebel Wilson are delighted to announce the winners of their respective scholarships for 2017. With an abundance…
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What’s On In March

Recently we’ve been a little besieged at ATYP by what people would generally refer to as ‘good problems’. The kinds of problems you are pleased to have … but still leave you scratching your head. They can be things like: “What are we going to do with these eight boxes…
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