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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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It’s Awards Season!

Welcome to February, awards season! It’s the time of year when the arts community is applauding the wisdom and sensitivity of critics, academies, audiences and their peers – or sitting with the forced self-control of a beagle with a biscuit on its nose trying not to shout “Why is the…
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Happy New Year From ATYP!

Happy New Year. Right! The sun’s out, the fat man’s flown north, there’s only a few weeks of school holidays left and a lot to get through. Stay focused!  This is the month you’ve gotta get serious about telling stories, watching stories, singing stories and just being theatrical. It’s the…
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