Youth Arts Alumni

If you’re someone that really takes joy in theatre, and wants to see what more there is to the craft, I’d struggle to think of a better way to do that than the Youth Company.

Jorja Stevens, Youth Company 2024

2024 Youth Company

Sola Adekunle

Miriama Ashby

James Cain

Flynn Cox

2024 Youth Company

Kirilayla Ireland

Connor Magatogia

Shanna Paese

Yihan (Roxie) Pu

Kalia Regan

2024 Youth Company

Jorja Stevens

Leo Taylor

Michele Sagarriga Visconti

2024 Emerging Writers Table

Becky Button

Uhyoung Choi 최우영

Alex de Vries

Abby Irwin-Jones

Te Huamanuka Luiten-Apirana

Leroy Nurkka

Leilani Tamu

Luka Wolfgram

Nuanzhi Zheng 郑暖之

Dan Goodwin, Programme Coordinator

2023 Youth Company

Kais Azimullah

Chloe Bettina

Zoe Courtney

Brandon Cudby

Chinmaya Dixit

Sahil Goyal

Luuk Heijnen

Erin McCarthy

Hazel Oh 오해솔

Shanna Paese

Megan Pochin

Nikolai Puharich

Kalia Regan

Te Ohorere Williams

Luka Wolfgram

Zane Wood

Keltie-Kewan Young

2022 Youth Company

Harry Ashley

Gianni-Mia Attrill-Dowling

Courtney Bassett

Mickey Bremner

Dragon Chen

Cris Clarke

Max Cumberpatch

Shania D'Cruz

Iatua (Tua) Felagai Taito

Cameron Gregan

Luuk Heijnen

Sania Jafarian

Kiriana Kemp

Shelby Kua

Jossiewesa Leapaga Nifo

Lupe Liumounu Ofa

Josh McLaughlin

Alex Medland

Ishika Patel

2021

HERE & NOW

23-30 July 2021
Basement Theatre

Festival of work by and for young theatre-makers.

FLESHIES 2.0
Presented in collaboration with The Oddballs
Directed by Bryony Skillington and Grace Augustine

YANG/YOUNG/杨
By Sherry Zhang and Nuanzhi Zheng
Directed by Nathan Joe

READ LIVE
Excerpts in motion

She Thinks Evil by Courtney Bassett
Pickled by Clare Marcie
Manatees by Dan Goodwin
Directed by Samuel Phillips

2019

HERE & NOW

26-30 April 2019
ASB Waterfront Theatre

THE GANGSTER'S PARADISE
By Leki Jackson Bourke
Directed by Fasitua Amosa

8 REASONABLE DEMANDS
By Joni Nelson
Directed by Leon Wadham

WATCH PARTY
Devised by the cast
Directed by Binge Culture

2018

HERE & NOW

20-23 April 2018
ASB Waterfront Theatre

TENDER 
Written and created by Benjamin Henson and the cast
Illustrations by Ana Scotney

YOU FIRST
By Billie Staples
Directed by Lynne Cardy

ALICE 
Devised by the cast
Directed by Leo Gene Peters

2017

HERE & NOW

21-24 April 2017
ASB Waterfront Theatre 

BOYS
Adapted from Greg McGee's Foreskin's Lament 
By Eleanor Bishop
Directed by Eleanor Bishop and Julia Croft

DANCE LIKE EVERYBODY'S WATCHING
Devised by the cast
Directed by Alice Canton

MOUTH: TONGUE: TEETH: 
By Niu Wave Collective
Directed by Grace Taylor