Theatre for Young Audiences
TYA UK is committed to supporting emerging practitioners who are making theatre for young audiences.
Seeing work, engaging in discussion and networking with national and international pracitioners is vital in inspiring and motivating the next generation of TYA practitioners. From time to time we offer bursaries and grants to support the attendance of emerging artists at key festivals and events. When other ASSITEJ Centres invite participants or offer special programmes the details are circulated to all TYA UK members and advertised through the members’ Newsletter.
ASSITEJ Germany has been particularly generous. In 2009 Wendy Harris of Tutti Frutti will attend the annual Directors’ Seminar and two UK participants will attend the Next Generation programme at Augenblickmal in Berlin.
Past recipients
Awarded a grant to assist in travel/registration costs for the ASSITEJ World Congress in Adelaide, Australia ñ May 2008
Steve Collins graduated in 2005 from QMU, Edinburgh. Since when he has worked extensively both in Scotland and internationally. Steve was the inaugural Director of the National Theatre of ScotlandÃs Young Company and has worked with the National Theatre of Ghana and in Ghanaian community theatre.
Steve has recently begun working with Visible Fictions, one of the UKÃs leading companies for Children and Young PeopleÃs work and is very excited by the possibilities of such an audience - focused, imaginative genre. He is very keen to carry on working in ChildrenÃs Theatre whilst bring his desire for cross-cultural connection in theatre to bare in his work.
Awarded a grant to assist in accommodation/registration costs at the AugenBlick Mal Festi val in Berlin, Germany ñ May 2007
Max studied English Literature at Trinity College Cambridge, where he directed four plays and one opera ñ a number of which toured to London, France, Germany and Switzerland. He subsequently trained as as an actor and set-designer at Ecole Jacques Lecoq Paris and undertook further training at Eugenio Barba’s Odin Teatret, Denmark.
Recent directing projects include Carnival Street Opera which was devised and directed for ETO, and toured the shopping malls of England and El MONO for Hopballehus International Theatre, which played in Centro Cultural Della Cooperacion in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Max also performs in Hungry Tigers, a two person surreal cabaret, directed by Else Marie Laukvik from the Odin Theatre. We have toured Denmark, South Africa, Chile and London.
Awarded a grant to assist in accommodation/registration costs at the AugenBlick Mal Festi val in Berlin, Germany ñ May 2007
Marigold co-founded Knavish Speech in 2005, a company dedicated to generating innovative and bold theatre for under 5Ãs and drawing upon this work to create interactive and dynamic theatre for adults. With Knavish Speech, Marigold has collaborated on En Route (Embassy Studio, Central School of Speech and Drama, July 2005), directed Dreams Come Out To Play for 1-5 year olds (The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, March 2006; The Oxford Playhouse - Aug 2006), she was a performer/co-deviser for Igloo: a multi-sensory and interactive performance for children with PMLD (Brays School, Birmingham in 2006, Ickburgh School, Hackney -2007) and directed BED, which was performed as part of the SPRINT festival at Camden PeopleÃs Theatre in London (June 2007) .
Additional directing credits include Grimm Tales (Co-Director - Minack Theatre, 2006), You Are Here (Site-specific, HMS Belfast, 2005) and Breaking Free (Youth Theatre Production -Concrete Canvas Arts, Cockpit Theatre, London, March 2006). As a facilitator, she works regularly with London Bubble and has recently worked as an early years artist with Creative Partnerships London North. She is an active contributor for Total Theatre Magazine and is currently the development worker for TYA UK.