Our long-form improv approach!
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 performing and media arts in our rural community.
Youth Ensemble Theater (Y.E.T) which has performed at 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), Denizen Theatre (New Paltz, NY) among others. YET has garnered awards from the American Academy for the Dramatic Arts (Featured performance/Youth Theatre Conference 2018), the NYC Thespian Society (Best Play/Best supporting actress, 2019), NYS Theatre Education Association (Award of Excellence 2019) , and was awarded 1st place, “Best Film 2022” in the Tales From the Catskills Amateur Film Competition for the short film ESCAPE!!!
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.
CURRENT SPRING 2024 – STARTS APRIL 1st
YOUTH INSTITUTES & ADULT PROGRAMS
Mondays: 4:00 – 5:00: Youth long-form improv games
Mondays 4:00 – 5:40 & Saturdays 10 AM – 12 PM: YET Company/performance troupe
Mondays 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Adult Improv/games
YET’s theater and filmmaking programs engage emerging performers in a dynamic ensemble process to create and perform contemporary cutting edge theater.
GALLERY
Y.E.T. film, “Surviving The Jop” 2023
This short film is a comedic spoof of a survival reality show – gone wrong!
Y.E.T. film, “ESCAPE” 2022
This campy short horror film received 1st place in the “Tales from the Catskills” contest!
Link: ESCAPE!
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 THE DIRECTOR
Amy Poux is a theater and film director. As the former Director of Education for Film at 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.