About us

Welcome to YMT! We’ve been going now for eight years and in that time have grown to be one the UK’s principal national youth arts organisations and largest provider of musical theatre activities for young people. We are also one of the National Youth Music Organisations supported by Youth Music and were the first arts organisation to receive the Learning Outside the Classroom kitemark awarded by the Department for Education.

We cater for young people over a wide age range – from 11-21 – as well as offering training opportunities for recent graduates and emerging artists.

A number of things mark us out:

We work almost exclusively with new work, either by commissioning new musical theatre from experienced writers and composers or through the devising process; to this end we employ active industry professionals at the top of their game. Creativity is at the heart of the work and we actively encourage as much participation as we can from the young people who join the company.

Most, although not all, of our work is residential; so we have a substantial duty of care to the 700 young people who stay with us on our courses during each year.

We seek to make the company open to a wide range of young people from different backgrounds and try to promote outreach and local projects as much as possible and to provide Hardship Funds and bursaries to those who cannot afford the courses.

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