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Stratford East Young Company
Stratford East Young Company
“My confidence has skyrocketed since joining Young Company.” - Young Company Participant 2024
Applications for the next Young Company are now open!
The Stratford East Young Company are a group of actors and theatre-makers aged 18-25, primarily from east London*, who are interested in taking the next step towards a career in the arts. As a Young Company member, you’ll have access to alternative professional training, working with Young Company Director and ROMEO & JULIET Associate Director Grace Duggan over a 10-month programme. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a supportive and inclusive learning environment to nurture and develop your talents.
This year the Stratford East Young Company will be working towards a full-scale mainstage production of ROMEO & JULIET written by William Shakespeare and adapted by Kwame Owusu, co-directed by Emily Ling-Williams and Malik Nashad Sharpe. The cast will be made up of Stratford East Young Company Members and Sadlers Wells Young Dancers, alongside a chorus of Newham Residents. For more information about the show, look here.
ROMEO & JULIET is a co-production between Stratford East and Sadlers Wells. For more information about Sadlers Wells have a look at their website here.
The Young Company will:
- Take part in weekly workshops to further develop skills in various performance and theatre-making techniques
- Work collaboratively with like-minded young theatre-makers and performers, sharing skills and forming a supportive company
- Take part in workshops with industry professionals and start to build a network of industry contacts.
- Work with a team of industry-leading artists to perform in a large-scale production on Stratford East’s Main Stage
The group meet every Wednesday from 6.30pm – 9pm with breaks that follow the academic calendar. Please find an initial full schedule here.
How To Apply:
To apply, please fill in the form here and send in a short video/self-tape.
Video/Self-tape Instructions
To help us see the best version of you, we would like you to send in a video/self-tape no longer than 2 minutes in length.
It could be a monologue from a play/ film/ TV show or written by yourself. If that doesn’t feel like the right medium for you, it could also be some poetry/spoken word, a snippet of your latest song or a story from your life. Anything that gives a sense of you and what you do as an actor/theatre-maker.
Please upload your video to YouTube and submit the link in the application form.
See here for tips on how to create a private YouTube video.
Deadline for applications is Mon 07 Oct, midday
Next Steps
Successful applicants will be invited to a first-round audition at Stratford East on Thu 24 Oct, 5pm - 9:30pm.
Second round of auditions will be held on Sat 02 Nov from 10am – 5pm.
You will receive confirmation of next steps by Thu 17 Oct via an email from getinvolved@stratfordeast.com. If you have any questions, please contact Kirstin or Bethan at getinvolved@stratfordeast.com
* (Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham, Havering)