Annual Appeal 2024

ATYP’s purpose is to empower young people through theatre. We ensure that they are kept at the centre of all our programs and also provide them the platform to represent themselves through stories that reflect their experiences. 

Our programs are heavily reliant on philanthropic funding, so we urge you to donate a little or a lot to ATYP’s annual appeal. Your donation will help ATYP keep young people centre stage in roles that allow them to represent themselves with creativity and confidence. 

With your support, ATYP will be able to keep running our programs including: 

• Our Workshops, which run year round during the school-terms as well as during the school holidays where young participants work collaboratively to devise their own performances. This also includes ATYP’s Young Industry production where young performers are taken through a professional production process leading to a season of a play selected through the ATYP Foundation Commission, new work written for young performers, which is performed in The Rebel Theatre. 
• Our Intersection Festival where writing, performance and education meet gives students and teachers the opportunity to work with ATYP to present brand-new Australian stories and showcase their work on stage. This program offers students the chance to develop their acting and staging skills by working on new scripts written by emerging Australian playwrights in ATYP’s National Studio program. The festival culminates in The Rebel Theatre where your students present new short plays. 
• Our Fresh Ink National Mentoring Program which supports 16 emerging writers from 4 different cities across Australia per year. Through attending regular meetings with their mentor as well as the opportunity to produce two short works for the stage, they are able to hone their skills whilst building their writing community. Funding ensures that these emerging writers are able to participate despite geographical, financial and economic barriers.  
• Our Productions which create opportunities that support professional artists and young people both on and off stage through staging work that explores the experiences of young Australia that is inspiring, bold and groundbreaking. ATYP’s productions are often the launching pad for the next generation of Australia’s professional artists as they embark on a professional creative career. These productions also help to build a canon of new, Australian works that are then performed by schools and youth theatres for years to come.

These are only just some of the many programs that ATYP is able to deliver with young people. As these programs crossover and intertwine, young people are always kept at the centre. We are able to reach young Australians across the country through theatre which creates personal and social growth as a result of their involvement. They are then able to apply this growth as they take on new roles where they ultimately gain a powerful and authentic voice.