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The London-based National Youth Theatre or NYT is the United Kingdom's leading organisation for young people in the field of theatre. It runs acting auditions, workshops, drama courses and actual theatre productions.
The National Youth Theatre was founded in 1956 by Michael Croft and was one of the UK's first premier youth arts organisations. The NYT gives young people (13 to 21) the opportunity for creative participation through theatre arts. All young people from across the UK, regardless of background, situation or status, are welcome to apply and the theatre receives roughly 4,500 applicants a year.
The NYT is a hotbed of young creative talent, and many of the best known names in the entertainment industry started out with the company, including Sir Ben Kingsley, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Helen Mirren, Kate Adie, Daniel Craig, Timothy Dalton, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julian Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alec Newman, Jessica Stevenson, Michael Kitchen, Gina McKee, Diana Quick, Timothy Spall, David Suchet, Douglas Hodge, Liza Tarbuck, Jamie Theakston, Alex Kingston, Simon Ward, Clive Mantle, Paula Wilcox, Michael York, Orlando Bloom, Rosamund Pike, Matt Lucas, Max Minghella and David Walliams.
Equally The NYT has produced some of the finest Stage Managers, Lighting Designers, Technicians and Sound Engineers. As well as running acting workshops and courses each summer it runs courses in Stage Management, Lighting & Sound, Set Construction and Design and Costume. Once members have completed their course they take part and contribute to NYT productions from Lighting Designing to Assistant Stage Managing.
This year 'The National Youth Theatre' enters its 50th aniversary year. To celebrate a number of events are planned at the Royal Court, The Soho Theatre, The Lowry (Manchester) & in Trafalgar Square. Also on the 26th of May the NYT started a successful world reccord attempt (for the longest continuous reading) where they read every single play they had performed since 1956. It successfully finished on Sunday 4th June. Many of the original cast members from the first production, Henry V, were reunited to read Henry to start the record off.
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