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NYMT's 2019 EMERGING WRITERS' AWARD

National Youth Music Theatre is delighted to announce that the first recipients of their award for New Writing for Musical Theatre are Katie Lam and Alex Parker.

NYMT invited submissions from emerging writers for their developmental process, which begins this summer with a week-long, fully cast workshop directed by Kate Golledge. Previous work by Katie and Alex includes THE RAILWAY CHILDREN and AMDRAM, which was recently workshopped at The Other Palace. This latest in a long line of NYMT commissions will form part of our 2020 season of productions. 

NYMT represents the very best in work with young people through musical theatre and for over 40 years has enabled thousands of youngsters across the UK to develop both their creative and personal potential, leading Andrew Lloyd Webber to dub it “the best youth music theatre in the world”. 

“The NYMT is, under the stewardship of Jeremy Walker, a major incubator of new performing talent but also a commissioner of new writing that pays serious dividends.”– Mark Shenton, The Stage