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Our long-form improv approach!
Y.E.T. GAMES & IMPROV FOR TWEENS
FALL 2023
Ages 11-13
Youth actors learn the fundamentals of Short form live improv. Based upon Upright Citizens Brigade’s approach, the program will be taught by veteran improvisational creator Joseph Davis, Director of Happenstancery Improv. Youth actors will spend ten weeks stretching their imaginations, learning how to collaborate as part of a team, and partnering with other actors to create sketch comedy in the spontaneous fast-paced creation of combustible situations, characters and storylines!
Dates/ Time:
Thursdays After School 4:15- 5:45 PM
September 14, 21, 28,
October 5, 12, 19, 26
November 2, 9, 16
Culminating Sharing: Sunday November 12 @ 11:00 AM
Location: The Rosendale Theatre, 408 Main Street, Rosendale NY
Program Fee: $275
Our theater and filmmaking programs engage emerging performers in a dynamic ensemble process to create and perform contemporary cutting edge theater.
GALLERY
Y.E.T. “ZOOM SCHOOL”, 2020
Totally improvised spoof on students collaborating on a school project during the pandemic.
EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2
Y.E.T. WEiRD Zoom Teleplay, 2020
IN WEIRD, A COMMUNITY UNWITTINGLY CONSPIRES TO VICTIMIZE AND OSTRACIZE A YOUNG PERSON BECAUSE OF HIS INABILITY TO CONFORM.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED FOR THE NEW ZOOM MEDIUM, WEIRD BREAKS THE FOURTH WALL AND INVITES THE AUDIENCE TO STEP INSIDE OF THE COLLECTED MICRO-INTERACTIONS THAT TELL THIS STORY.
FEATURING: GORDON W. BROWN, KAETHE FINE, CAROLINE JAMESON, TRUDY POUX, EMILY ROSAKRANSE, RAYMOND STOCKIN, QUINN VICTOR, NADJA WELDEN.
Y.E.T. at Denizen Theatre, January 2020
“Black Friday” 100% Improvised Play
Y.E.T. at Byrdcliffe Theatre
One Act Play Series, May 2019
In 2019, YET presented two weekends of contemporary theater in the YET One Act Play Series 2019 at the Byrdcliffe Theatre! This year’s One Act Series included 13 plays from award-winning playwrights as well as an original play by one of very our teen thespians.
Y.E.T. Gallery!
About Youth Ensemble Theater, Inc.
YET is a project of the not-for-profit organization, Youth Ensemble Theater, Inc. Founded in 2005, the mission of Youth Ensemble Theater, Inc. is to serve diverse groups of young people with expansive, potent and vital experiences in the arts in our rural community.
Youth Ensemble Theater (Y.E.T.) has grown into a pre-professional theater company, garnering awards from NYC Thespian Society (Best Play/Best supporting actress, 2019), NYS Theatre Education Association (Award of Excellence 2019), American Academy for the Dramatic Arts (Featured performance/Youth Theatre Conference 2018) among others. Y.E.T. plays have performed Off-Broadway at the 52nd Street Project and the Labyrinth Theater company’s Bank Street Theater (NYC), The Richard B. Fisher Performing Arts Center (Bard College), NY State & Film/Powerhouse Theater Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Boughton Place (Highland, NY), Byrdcliffe Theater (Woodstock, NY), and High Meadow Performing Arts Center (Stone Ridge, NY).
Sustained through sweat equity, funding and donations, Y.E.T., Inc. aims to champion those young people that are often underrepresented and provide them with an artistic path to their most exceptional selves.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Amy Poux is a theater and film director. As the former Director of Education for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Educational Specialist at Stockade Works, founder of Working Playground (AKA Urban Arts Partnership,) she has been awarded for her design of in-depth, student-driven arts experiences for young people and intergenerational communities.