Talk:Australian Theatre for Young People/Archive 2

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I just looked over the notable students section and added citations when needed, deleted students when there could be no citation found for them and added in two alumni with citations -thank you!

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 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.

Up to 12 workshops are offered per week ranging in ages from 5 to 18 years old during NSW school term times. Semester Ensemble classes focus on a foundation of skills and storytelling, finishing with a theatrical performance at the end of semester.

ATYP's holiday workshops run during every school holidays – 4 weeks in Summer, and 2 weeks during every other break. They include acting, physical theatre, musical theatre, design, playwriting, camera performance, circus an clowning.

ATYP has a masterclass program for young people aged 18 to 26, and in 2012 ATYP introduced the signature series masterclasses - opportunities for young adults to spend time with theatre practitioners. Previous instructors include: Rose Byrne, Darren Gilshenan, Anita Hegh and Kevin Jackson.

ATYP also offers specialist 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 (aged 18-26) in selected states across Australia. The selected writers are offered mentoring by an industry professional, opportunities to work with professional actors and directors, as well as opportunities to showcase their work to invited audiences.

Since it was established in 2008, twenty writers from the ages of 18 to 26 have been selected annually from a group of applicants across Australia to be a part of The National Studio. The one week residency at Bundanon culminates in the creation of a production, under the title Intersection, that is then put on by ATYP the following year during their mainstage season.

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. Twenty writers are selected from a pool of applicants. Each participant creates a short monologue or scene to be performed by actors in their teenage years. After the residency half of the work created are then chosen to be published and made available to schools and youth theatres in the following year.

The Rose Byrne Scholarship aims to support an emerging female leader between the ages of 18 and 26. The recipient receives a cash prize towards their artistic practice and a trip to Los Angeles, USA, to work on a project with the Australian Theatre Company as well as attend the G'day USA gala dinner.

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 by playwrights of any age. 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 is for women between 18 and 26 years old. The commission includes the opportunity to receive mentor-ship from Rebel Wilson and a trip to Los Angeles, USA, to participate in the Australian Theatre Company's Summer Reading Series.

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.

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.


 * David Berthold, artistic director and chief executive officer, producer
 * Mitchell Butel, director
 * Rose Byrne, ambassador
 * Rachael Coopes, teacher
 * Patricia Cornelius, playwright
 * Ruth Cracknell, patron
 * Nick Enright, playwright
 * Maura Fay, board member
 * Darren Gilshenan, teacher
 * John Kachoyan, director
 * Yaron Lifschitz, head tutor directing
 * Baz Luhrmann, ambassador
 * Tommy Murphy, board member
 * Debra Oswald, playwright
 * Lachlan Philpott, playwright
 * Toby Schmitz, playwright
 * Brett Sheehy, board member
 * Rebel Wilson, ambassador
 * Tom Wright, playwright

Notable students include:

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.


 * Natasha Bassett
 * Alex Broun
 * Nathaniel Buzolic
 * Rose Byrne
 * Rob Carlton
 * Kyly Clarke
 * Salvatore Coco
 * Toni Collette
 * Abbie Cornish
 * Maeve Dermody
 * Michael Gow
 * Sophie Hensser
 * Lally Katz
 * Nicole Kidman
 * Beejan Land
 * Lenka
 * Ben Lewis
 * Alyssa McClelland
 * Brandon McClelland
 * Joel McIlroy
 * Kenneth Moraleda
 * Dominic Purcell
 * Tasneem Roc
 * Peter Vroom
 * Jason Smith
 * Phoebe Tonkin
 * Jessica Tovey
 * Felix Williamson
 * Rebel Wilson
 * Daniel Wyllie
 * Aden Young

ElectricMagneticPersonality (talk) 03:01, 15 July 2019 (UTC)


 * References are still missing from the directors, personnel, and alumni sections. Regards, Spintendo  03:34, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

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'''Hi Spintendo! I hope I got every citation! If I didn't, could you give me an example of my mistake so that I may fix it? Thank you again for all of your help!'''

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 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.

Up to 12 workshops are offered per week ranging in ages from 5 to 18 years old during NSW school term times. Semester Ensemble classes focus on a foundation of skills and storytelling, finishing with a theatrical performance at the end of semester.

ATYP's holiday workshops run during every school holidays – 4 weeks in Summer, and 2 weeks during every other break. They include acting, physical theatre, musical theatre, design, playwriting, camera performance, circus an clowning.

ATYP has a masterclass program for young people aged 18 to 26, and in 2012 ATYP introduced the signature series masterclasses - opportunities for young adults to spend time with theatre practitioners. Previous instructors include: Rose Byrne, Darren Gilshenan, Anita Hegh and Kevin Jackson.

ATYP also offers specialist 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 (aged 18-26) in selected states across Australia. The selected writers are offered mentoring by an industry professional, opportunities to work with professional actors and directors, as well as opportunities to showcase their work to invited audiences.

Since it was established in 2008, twenty writers from the ages of 18 to 26 have been selected annually from a group of applicants across Australia to be a part of The National Studio. The one week residency at Bundanon culminates in the creation of a production, under the title Intersection, that is then put on by ATYP the following year during their mainstage season.

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. Twenty writers are selected from a pool of applicants. Each participant creates a short monologue or scene to be performed by actors in their teenage years. After the residency half of the work created are then chosen to be published and made available to schools and youth theatres in the following year.

The Rose Byrne Scholarship aims to support an emerging female leader between the ages of 18 and 26. The recipient receives a cash prize towards their artistic practice and a trip to Los Angeles, USA, to work on a project with the Australian Theatre Company as well as attend the G'day USA gala dinner.

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 by playwrights of any age. 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 is for women between 18 and 26 years old. The commission includes the opportunity to receive mentor-ship from Rebel Wilson and a trip to Los Angeles, USA, to participate in the Australian Theatre Company's Summer Reading Series.

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.

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.


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

Notable students include:

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.


 * Natasha Bassett
 * Alex Broun
 * Nathaniel Buzolic
 * Rose Byrne ✅
 * Rob Carlton
 * Kyly Clarke
 * Salvatore Coco ✅
 * Toni Collette ✅
 * Abbie Cornish
 * Maeve Dermody
 * Michael Gow
 * Lally Katz
 * Nicole Kidman ✅
 * Beejan Land
 * Lenka ✅
 * Ben Lewis ✅
 * Alyssa McClelland
 * Brandon McClelland
 * Joel McIlroy
 * Kenneth Moraleda
 * Dominic Purcell
 * Peter Vroom
 * Jason Smith ✅
 * Phoebe Tonkin
 * Jessica Tovey
 * Felix Williamson
 * Rebel Wilson
 * Daniel Wyllie ✅
 * Aden Young

ElectricMagneticPersonality (talk) 02:10, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Regards, Spintendo  06:25, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Information on the workshops, writing programs, scholarships and commissions is promotional and cannot be included.
 * 2) Only the productions which have been reviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald or other equivalent major publications ought to be included.
 * 3) It is not clear what is "notable" about the notable directors if there are no appurtenant WikiLinks accompanying the names.
 * 4) All of the references in the proposal ought to be formatted using CS1 (ref tag #4 is not).
 * 5) A sampling of 3 notable students showed that all three did not contain valid references for their claims (Rose Byrne uses TV.com, Jason Smith uses Yahoo.com and Kyly Clarke contains no reference).