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Triple success for GSAL pupils in National Youth Theatre auditions

Tuesday 20 May 2014

WEB l-r Iona Boyd, Martha Mukungurutse and Caroline Taylor

Three students from The Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL) have earned places in the prestigious National Youth Theatre of Great Britain (NYT).

Following successful auditions Y11 students Caroline Taylor and Martha Mukungurutse, together with Iona Boyd Y10, will attend a two week intensive acting course in London during the summer holidays. Following the course they will be fully fledged NYT members until the age of 25, which entitles them to audition for the NYT’s exciting shows around the country each year.

The competition was fierce – in a record year for NYT applications over 4,800 youngsters auditioned for 560 coveted places on the summer course. Applicants attended an all-day audition, with group acting workshops in the morning and individual monologues in the afternoon.

Emma Stokes, head of co-curricular drama at GSAL, said: “The NYT is singularly the most prestigious theatre company a young person can be accepted into within the UK. For our students to be accepted against such strong competition only serves to highlight what exceptional talented, dedicated and ambitious performers they are.’

The NYT was the world’s first youth theatre and has nurtured the talent of hundreds of thousands of young performers and theatre technicians from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The trio will be following in the footsteps of some illustrious NYT alumni – Dame Helen Mirren, Daniel Craig, Colin Firth, Catherine Tate, Matt Smith and many more honed their craft with the organisation.

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