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I was born in Stoke , I grew up in Wolverhampton. I joined CYT I performed with them, I directed for them, I took part in summer schools with them and went abroad with them. All before I stopped being a Y – Youth – but the stuff that happened […]

Many of my memories of growing up are also memories of Central Youth Theatre. Endless sunny or snowy Sunday afternoons at Dunkley Street rehearsing , improvising, making films, reading scripts, having costume fittings, learning to waltz and sing Russian folk songs; trips to Devon and Hungary; going backstage at a […]

Writing about CYT is always hard. CYT saved my life. Anyone who spent any real time there knows exactly what it is about. Anybody who hasn’t will never quite understand. You may have gone to a youth theatre too, but it wasn’t the same. Did you perform in Latvia and […]

I had the pleasure of being a part of Central Youth Theatre for 4 years and even now, a few years later, I still consider myself a proud member. Over the course of those 4 years, I gathered skills, grabbed opportunities and gained experience- the very things which I think […]

  I haven’t been at Central Youth Theatre for very long, but it’s already changed my life so much.   I was really shy when I started out, I first became interested in Central Youth Theatre just under a year ago when I went to see their amazing production of […]

  I joined CYT in 2011. I can still remember my first day, I was absolutely petrified. I was so scared that all these people would know each other and no-one would accept me. I remember the first girl I spoke to being just as scared, almost five years later […]