Experience Opportunity

National Youth Theatre Wales

Bookings to audition for National Youth Theatre of Wales in 2025 are NOW OPEN!

Full audition waivers are available for those who cannot afford the audition fee of £25.

NYTW Members will take advantage of 3 training and development residential experiences across Wales between June and November 2025 where you will:

  • Connect and work with the best companies and artists from Wales and beyond, including our key industry partners Theatr Clwyd, and Wales Millennium Centre
  • Boost your skillset and confidence as performers in workshops and masterclasses delivered by vocal coaches, movement directors, directors, writers, casting agents, sound designers, digital storytellers, and much much more…
  • Make friends for life and enjoy our varied social programme
  • See brilliant work and get insight from professional creative teams
  • Help us shape the 2026 Anniversary production
  • Work and play in a proudly bilingual environment

All of the above are delivered through our 5 Programme Strands that NYTW members will experience with options to specialise further in some areas if offered a place. 

  • Stage and Screen Craft
  • The Joy of Making 
  • Pathways+   
  • Backstage and Screen Skills  
  • Lab 50

Our Bursary Fund could help to cover some or all of the membership fees, so that no-one is deterred from applying for the NYAW Ensembles for financial reasons. If you have an annual household income of less than £70,000, you could be eligible for financial support.

Requirements

NYAW accepts applications from people aged 16 and 22 who live/study full-time in Wales or were born in Wales.   

You may be…
• studying or taking part in drama/performance in your school or college
• at drama school and preparing for the next step in your career
• taking part in youth theatre or musical theatre in your area
• a passionate creative who’s curious about behind the scenes storytelling and backstage skills.

For the 2025 residencies participants must be aged between 16 and 22 on 31 August 2025. This means that you may be able to audition aged 15, as long as you will be 16 by this date.  

Interested?

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