MIMIC YOUTH THEATRE COMPANY
Our Youth Theatre Company is our actor training playground and welcomes actors aged 15-21 into the real world of becoming an actor. Focusing on the key aspects to help build your acting career including monologue and drama school audition prep, key practitioners every actor should know, self-tapes, professional auditions, voice work, Shakespeare, the business of being an actor, writing and directing workshops, scene study and acting through song. The company also has the opportunity to perform regularly whilst training, and network with industry professionals including agents, casting directors and more. The youth theatre company is led by Mimic's Artistic Director and Founder Kim Southey.
For details on how to audition, please email kim@mimictheatre.co.uk
The course is structured over the academic year and entrance is by audition only. Through each term, the course will teach you the tools and techniques needed to thrive in the creative industry as an actor.
Very limited spaces keep the class small, ensuring you get the most out of your training. To challenge ourselves, to step outside our comfort zones, to improve as actors, we must feel safe and secure in class. Under careful and supportive guidance our class will form a company, a safe space to explore and play and engage with new ideas and skills.
Not only are we offering a unique training programme, but the opportunity to create a community of young actors starting out in the industry. It is a very small industry, and a tough one. Mimic will foster a network of Young Actors Alumni who can support each other, create opportunities together, and work together for their futures as actors. We always look to those ahead of us for mentorship and opportunity, but don’t ever forget to look beside you, because you and those around you are the mentors of tomorrow, and you never know what opportunities may come from the network you build right from the word go!
Previous shows with our company include: Dreams of Anne Frank (Market Theatre), Oz (Market Theatre), The Boy Preference & Six (Welwyn Civic Centre/The Barn Theatre), Our Day Out (Digswell Hall) and Legally Blonde (Welwyn Civic Centre). The group has also taken part in Oliver at the Campus West Theatre. Upcoming shows in 2025 include a five-night run of Growing Pains at The Barn Theatre in the studio and a production of Sweeney Todd at Digswell Hall.
The Senior Youth Theatre for ages 15-21 year olds offers the opportunity to partake in larger-scale shows and caters for teens and young adults who want to explore acting techniques further, gain experience in audition preparation, confidence building, experimenting with different genres and developing their skills in voice, body, performance and knowledge in the industry as well as modules in improvisation, devising, group work, voice work, audition technique, script work and team building.We work towards creating high quality theatre, aiming to give young people the chance to shape their skills for a future in the arts. We enable a safe space for young theatre makers to grow and experiment. During productions and festivals, youth members will be expected to work in a professionally led environment.
YOUTH THEATRE COMPANY
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