National Youth Theater Company
The National Youth Theater Company , or NYTC for short , is a not-for-profit organization in New Zealand that organizes theater courses and musical productions that only stage people between the ages of 5 and 21.
Programs and productions
Previous productions
The organization has performed a number of full-length musical productions since its inception, including
- Cinderella (at the Bruce Mason Center, Auckland , 2005)
- Annie (at the Bruce Mason Center, Auckland, 2005)
- Seussical (at the Bruce Mason Center, Auckland, 2006)
- Aladdin Jr. (at the Centennial Theater, Auckland, 2006)
- High School Musical (at Aotea Center, Auckland, 2007)
- Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr (at Dorothy Winstone Center, Auckland, 2007)
- Grease (Aotea Center, Auckland, June 2008)
- The Wiz (Dorothy Winstone Center, Auckland, 2008)
- High School Musical 2 (Aotea Center, Auckland, August 2009)
- Honk! (Dorothy Winstone Center, Auckland November 2009)
Planned productions
- High School Musical 2 : On Stage (at Aotea Center, Auckland, 2009)
- Peter Pan (date and place of premiere still unknown)
Employee
The employees of the organization who are responsible for the realization of the projects are themselves young New Zealand theater talents. As of December 2009, these are
- Joe Davis ( overall management )
- Glen Pickering ( Artistic Director )
- James Doy ( musical direction )
- Katie Endicott-Davies ( program production )
- Nikki Ring ( choreography )
- Rosalind Giffney ( Assistant to the General Management )