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Our long-form improv approach!
Summer Theater Workshop 2023
@ The Rosendale Theatre!
July 1st – 8th, 2023
Participants in this program will enact long-form improvisation and sketch comedy. Actors will work on developing original characters, Y.E.T.’s signature improv games, and spontaneously combustible situations that make for high comedy. Ensemble members also have the opportunity to create media as part of the performance!
This program will culminate in an original improvisational performance which will be performed at Rosendale Theatre on July 8th at 5 PM. This will be a ticketed event.
DATES: July 1 – 8, Performance July 8th @ 5 PM
TIME: 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
FEE: $350
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.