Become a 2025 Young Company Member
Over a period of half a century, we have established a reputation as the country's most dynamic, innovative and trusted youth music theatre company. We've seen thousands of young people join NYMT and become part of our ever-growing family. This year's productions range from classics to innovative new pieces including two UK Premieres.
Whether you are returning to NYMT or interested in joining us for the first time, you are all equally welcome.
Take partBilly Bigelow, a swaggering, carefree carnival barker, falls in love with and marries the sweet but naive Julie Jordan. A stunning and complex tale of love and loss, in an unusual site-specific production.
Easter Rehearsals: 5 – 10 April 2025, Kent
Summer Rehearsals: 16 – 23 August 2025, Uppingham
Production Week: 25 – 30 August 2025, Birmingham
Crescendo puts a spotlight on the creative voices of some of our younger Company Members in a piece of music theatre conceptualised and devised by them and supported by some of our most experienced creative teams.
Easter Rehearsals: 11 – 17 April 2025, Kent
Performance dates to be confirmed.
The show follows the final class of New York City's celebrated High School for the Performing Arts from their admission in 1980 to their graduation in 1984. All of the struggles, fears, and triumphs - from prejudice to substance abuse are depicted with razor-sharp focus as the young artists navigate the worlds of music, drama, and dance.
Easter Rehearsals: 12 – 17 April 2025, Kent
Summer Rehearsals: 26 July – 2 August 2025, Kent
Production Week: 4 – 9 August 2025, Birmingham
Come on into the Sky High Diner, nestled amongst the very peak of Mount Olympus. You will be served by the young Olympians; bored, restless and eager to spread their wings and become the Gods they are longing to be. It's led by the sparky Zeus; heir to Mount Olympus but eclipsed by his bullish father Cronos and 2 older brothers. Can the little Lightning Boy truly ascend to the all-powerful being he is destined to be? Or will his heart’s desire create an electrical storm big enough to change the course of history forever?
Easter Rehearsals: 11 – 16 April 2025, Kent
Summer Rehearsals: 9 – 16 August 2025, Kent
Production Weeks: 18 – 23 August 2025, Birmingham
What would you do if you had all eternity? Eleven-year-old Winnie Foster yearns for a life of adventure beyond her white picket fence, but not until she becomes unexpectedly entwined with the Tuck Family does she get more than she could have imagined. As her adventure unfolds, Winnie faces an extraordinary choice: return to her life, or continue with the Tucks on their infinite journey.
Easter Rehearsals: 11 – 16 April 2025, Kent
Summer Rehearsals: 2 – 9 August 2025, Kent
Production Week: 11 – 16 August 2025, Birmingham
The award winning Echo Eternal project brings together diverse communities in a creative and collaborative context, using a common focus of Holocaust memorial and genocide awareness.
Platform is a company of young adults who have been with NYMT over a number of years and are industry-ready. They are the ultimate NYMT ambassadors. Joining the company is by invitation and is reserved for Young Company Members who have distinguished themselves as exceptional NYMT regulars. Each year, we also invite selected alumni back to perform as guests with Platform.
This exciting new project invites musicians to play the overtures, entr'actes, and dance arrangements from a variety of shows in an evening celebrating the wonderful arrangements and orchestrations that audiences often don't hear taking centre stage.
Rehearsals: 23–24 October 2025
Performance: 25 October 2025
NEW MUSICAL WORKSHOPS IN 2025
We're delighted to be working on eight new musicals this year as part of our series of New Musical Workshops.
Most of these workshops are available only to those who take part through our audition workshop days.
Take partFlip
Flip by Josh Bird and Giles Fernando
Residential Easter Workshop | 11 – 15 April 2025 | Kent
A Karate Kid-meets-skateboarding punk musical, with a twist, about freeing yourself from judgment and living your fullest life.
Meet Sam, a teenage skateboarder with big dreams, inspired by real-life British Olympian Sky Brown. She’s taking on her headmistress mum, her bestie, and her own self-doubt to chase gold at the national championships. But here’s the flip – life doesn’t always go as planned. Flip twists expectations with an unforgettable story of ambition, resilience, and what it truly means to rise after you fall. This is the tale of someone who almost made it – if only they’d had the courage and persistence to push through. Packed with killer skaterpunk tunes, energy and heart, Flip is a ride you won’t want to miss.
Windsong
Windsong by Annabelle Lee Revak
Non-Residential May Half Term Workshop | 26 – 30 May 2025 | London
In the world of Windsong, Tales are traded between each town's Teller and the Wind - thus supplying firesides 'round the world with new stories. 'A song for a song, and a rhyme for a rhyme,' they all sing. But when Rory's village runs out of Tales, they are put in battle with the Wind. Will Rory learn how to talk to the Wind and Tell a Tale, before the blizzard comes and tears them all apart? Windsong is about the price of a story and what we will risk to Tell one.
Every Day
Every Day by Nick Barstow and Martha Geelan, in association with DEM Productions
Non-Residential May Half Term Workshop | 26 – 30 May 2025 | London
‘What would it be like to be a person who grew up without gender, race, sexual orientation, parents, friends, and all of the other things we usually classify ourselves by, and, second, what would it be like to be in love with someone who changed every day – would it be possible?’ Author, David Levithan
Every Day is a new musical with a contemporary pop score for an ensemble cast. Every day ‘A’ wakes up in a different teenager’s body with no warning of where or who it will be. Exploring the inner thoughts and feelings of their host, A’s only goals in life are to not intervene and to give each host a good day. That is until they meet Rhiannon and suddenly their transitory world isn’t enough...
The Great Moon Hoax
The Great Moon Hoax by Tim Gilvin and Alex Kanefsky
Residential Summer Workshop | 27 July – 1 August 2025 | Kent
New York, 1835. In the fastest-growing city in the world, Frances Mitchell watches the skies from her bedroom at night, dreaming of the stars, comets and distant planets – but mostly – of seeing her brother again, swallowed by war. Her mother wants her to put away childish things and take her marriage proposals seriously, but when the city becomes abuzz with news from the Penny Press that life has been found on the moon, her imagination catches fire. As New York erupts at the incredible findings, Frances dares to dream… but is it better to believe a lie, when the truth hurts so much?
Carmilla
Carmilla by Eden Tredwell
Residential Summer Workshop | 27 July – 1 August 2025 | Kent
Everyone has an ex they'd describe as a monster, right? In a remote all-girls college, isolated Laura is fascinated by her mysterious new classmate Carmilla. As romance develops between them, strange occurrences begin to threaten the school and the town, and Laura must confront Carmilla's true nature. Based on the 1872 novella, this is a modern grunge-pop-rock reimagining of the original vampire tale.
Stagshaw Fayre
Stagshaw Fayre by Kitty Morgan
Non-Residential Summer Workshop | 18 – 22 August 2025 | London
The magical, mysterious events of this ghostly love story occur during two heady hours at this year’s Stagshaw Country Fair. After some terrible events last summer, it’s the first time Wren’s friends have persuaded her to come out and party. Will Wren be able to enjoy the evening like a normal teenage girl, what will the fortune teller see in her stars, and will she ever get out of Stagshaw Fair alive? Remember, friends: don’t lose your head or wander off across the heath.
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg
The Unstoppable Letty Pegg by Helen Arney and James Hughes
Summer Workshop | 10 – 15 August 2025 | Kent
Non-Residential October Workshop | 10 – 15 August 2025 | Kent
Take a stand with the Jiu Jitsu Suffragettes as they bring their fight to the stage! The Unstoppable Letty Pegg follows our 11-year-old heroine as she navigates her complicated family life amongst the highs and lows of chaotic Edwardian London. With a working-class policeman father and upper-class Suffragette mother, Lettice Pegg feels confused, unseen and powerless. Until she discovers the Jiu Jitsu Suffragettes of the Golden Square Dojo – and yes, they really did exist! Together they transform Lettice, but has she become unstoppable enough to save her family when danger strikes? Ichi, ni, san, GO!
Mini: The Boy who Played with Fire
Mini: The Boy who Played with Fire by Ben Glasstone and Nikki Racklin
Non-Residential October Workshop | 10 – 15 August 2025 | Kent
It’s 1975. Michael ‘Mini’ Cooper is an angel-faced 11-year-old with a stripey tank top and the gift of the gab. He’s also recently set fire to his family home and his local church. Locked away in a home for 'Maladjusted Children', Mini's irrepressible character attracts the attention of an up-and-coming documentary director, who makes him the focus of a ground breaking film. But is he a lost child, desperate to be heard, or a manipulative psychopath? This wild true story, with its glam-rock/punk-folk musical score, follows Mini as he fights for his life, armed only with his impish defiance.
Courses
Step by Step: actors, singers & dancers
The ultimate music theatre skills toolkit: our Step by Step courses are available as residential and non-residential courses for different skill levels and ages.
Our Step by Step courses are generally five days long (which, for residential courses, includes four nights stay – for total music theatre immersion).
Note by Note: composers & writers
Bring nothing but your ideas: develop your skills as a writer or composer, or just discover more about the world of creating a new musical!
Page by Page: young creatives
Work alongside a professional director, choreographer and musical director to build your understanding of taking a musical from page to stage.
Piece by Piece: young designers and technicians
Get hands-on with sound and lighting kit, learn how to rig and how to control it. Discover how a stage management team fits together and learn from people who've chosen behind the scenes as their career!
