Talk:Australian Theatre for Young People

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Information to be added: Infobox, History, ATYP On Demand, Writing Programs, Scholarships, Commissions, Notable Productions, Artistic Directors

Information to be updated: Description, Workshop Program, Productions, Notable Personnel, Notable Alumni because all now have relevant citations, the wording has been edited for no promotional language and general updates

Information to be removed: Under the Wharf, Fresh Ink because Under the Wharf no longer exists as ATYP is no longer on the wharf and Fresh Ink can be reformatted with the two other writing programs ATYP offers under a "writing programs" section

Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) is a not-for-profit national youth theatre company located in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia. It was founded in Sydney in 1963 by Eleanor Witcombe.

The first committee was formed in 1964 and consisted of Alastair Duncan as chairman, Diana Sharpe as secretary, Nigel Lovell as treasurer as well as Ellis Irving, Owen Weingott and Wendy Blacklock.

ATYP's first production was the comedy: She Stoops to Conquer - Goldsmith Examined by Oliver Goldsmith, adapted and directed by Owen Weingott. It sourced schools in the metropolitan Sydney with Owen Weingott, Barry Creyton and Reginald Livermore as cast members. Since 1997, ATYP was housed at The Wharf, Pier 4/5, but due to the construction that started in July of 2018, ATYP has temporarily relocated its office to Woolloomooloo.

Their workshops are now in the following venues: Abraham Mott Hall, The Seymour Centre, Carriageworks, Brand X and Redfern Town Hall.

Their performances spaces are SBW Stable's Theatre, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta and The Joan, Penrith.

The workshop program at ATYP includes school holiday workshops and a semester ensemble program.

In 2012 ATYP introduced the signature series masterclasses taught by theatre practitioners. Previous instructors include: Rose Byrne, Darren Gilshenan and Anita Hegh.

ATYP also offers workshops for schools, community groups, organisations and arts companies.

ATYP On Demand is a free service for schools and students set up by ATYP that houses filmed live performances from previous productions as well as educational resources and activities, behind the scenes content and the ability to watch live streams of selected performances during the mainstage season that concludes in a cast Q&A.

Running annually from April to December since 2008, the Fresh Ink National Mentoring Program is for emerging writers in selected states across Australia.

Established in 2008, twenty writers from the ages of 18 to 26 have thus been selected annually from a group of applicants across Australia for a one week residency at Bundanon.

For the first eight years of the program from 2011-2016, writers created a collection of seven minute monologues for 17-year-old actors under The Voices Project, but starting in 2016, the Intersection production was created in its place.

The Writing Place is a residency for regional writers and performers between the ages of 18 and 26 living outside of Australia's major cities. It is a joint project of ATYP, Country Arts SA and Carclew and is supported by the Regional Arts Fund Strategic initiatives in which half of the work generated is published and made available to schools and youth theatres in the following year.

The Rose Byrne Scholarship is donated by Rose Byrne and aims to support an emerging female leader between the ages of 18 and 26 since 2016. The winner is hand selected by Rose Byrne.

ATYP commissions 4 plays annually through their ATYP Foundation Commissions program, the Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission and the Martin-Lysicrates Prize.

Established in 2003, the ATYP Foundation Commissions annually calls for two commissions to be written. One commission asks for a play suitable for performers between the ages of 10 and 13, while the other asks for work that is suitable for performers between the ages of 14 and 17. The Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission has been donated by Rebel Wilson since 2016 and is for women between 18 and 26 years old. The winner is hand selected by Rebel Wilson.

Created in 2019 with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta and The Lysicrates Foundation, the Martin-Lysicrates Prize awards a full commission to the winning playwright for a new play for young people aged 11-14. ATYP mounts up to eight productions a year. These vary from alternative versions of classics, new plays by young writers, devised performances, physical theatre, or plays written for the company by leading Australian writers, such as Alana Valentine's Grounded, Kate Mulvany and Ann-Louise Sarks' Medea and Max Remy Super Spy by Deborah Abela, adapted by Jo Turner.

These productions have featured in festivals such as the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival (Stephen Sewell's version of Aristophanes' Birds), 2002 Sydney Festival (Kinderspiel, a collaboration with Theater an der Parkaue, Germany's largest theatre for children and young people), 2003 Shell Connections festival for the National Theatre, London (Brokenville by Philip Ridley), and 2004 Sydney Festival (The Musicians/Eclipse, a co-production with the National Theatre's Young Company [UK]).

ATYP poductions have toured regionally, such as Sugarland, nationally, such as A Town Named War Boy, and internationally, such as Patrice Balbina's Chance Encounter with the End of the World.

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Notable staff, patrons, ambassadors, board members, and contributing playwrights include:

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 * David Berthold
 * Mitchell Butel ✅
 * Rose Byrne
 * Rachael Coopes
 * Patricia Cornelius
 * Ruth Cracknell
 * Nick Enright
 * Maura Fay
 * Yaron Lifschitz
 * Baz Luhrmann
 * Tommy Murphy
 * Debra Oswald
 * Lachlan Philpott
 * Toby Schmitz
 * Brett Sheehy
 * Rebel Wilson

Notable students include:

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 * Natasha Bassett
 * Rose Byrne
 * Rob Carlton
 * Toni Collette ✅
 * Abbie Cornish
 * Maeve Dermody
 * Michael Gow
 * Lally Katz
 * Nicole Kidman ✅
 * Beejan Land
 * Lenka
 * Ben Lewis
 * Alyssa McClelland
 * Brandon McClelland
 * Phoebe Tonkin
 * Jessica Tovey
 * Felix Williamson
 * Rebel Wilson
 * Daniel Wyllie ✅
 * Aden Young

ElectricMagneticPersonality (talk) 01:37, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Reply 19-JUL-2019

 * 1) ❌ The notable personnel was not added because it was not clear what these personnel's job descriptions were. Whether they were staff, patrons, ambassadors, board members, or contributing playwrights, this list made up a hodgepodge of individuals whose relationship to the theater would not be clear to the reader.
 * 2) ❌ The sections on commissions, scholarships, writing programs and workshops were not added because it was felt that these items were overtly promotional in nature.
 * 3) ✅ The notable productions were limited to those reviewed by reliable, secondary sources unconnected to the theater industry.
 * 4) ❌ One sentence was omitted because its phrasing was unclear (It sourced schools in the metropolitan Sydney with Owen Weingott, Barry Creyton and Reginald Livermore as cast members.)
 * 5) ❌ Other sentences were omitted because they were not referenced.
 * 6) ✅ One sentence which was unreferenced was added because it dealt with the theater's temporary relocation (Since 1997, ATYP was housed at The Wharf, Pier 4/5, but due to the construction that started in July of 2018, ATYP has temporarily relocated its office to Woolloomooloo.)

Regards, Spintendo  07:10, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
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