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 6.30pm9pm 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) 

 

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