SUMMER CAMPERS FIND THEIR VOICE AT MTYP If you’ve called MTYP to purchase tickets to a show or enroll your child in a class anytime in the last six years, chances are you’ve spoken to Anika. Anika has contributed to MTYP in many different ways over the years. Not only do they support the School administration needs, but they have ...

THEATRE SCHOOL STUDENT REVIEWS ALICE IN WONDERLAND We invited one of our Theatre School students Sydney to review Bad Hats Theatre's Alice in Wonderland! Here's what she had to say about the time she spent falling down the rabbit hole: MTYP’s production of Bad Hats theatre’s Alice in Wonderland created a wonderful twist to the timeless classic, Alice in Wonderland. While keeping the same ...

SUSAN TIME: THE DRAMATIC BENEFITS OF DRAMAVENTURES For a group of young children, MTYP has been the place where they’ve had their first interactions with other children. Ever. Over the past two years, many parents have struggled to find activities that feel safe and fun. As in-person classes at MTYP resumed last fall and winter, many of the youngest students ...

NATIVE YOUTH THEATRE: NURTURING THE NATURAL STORYTELLERS A few years ago, at a Native Youth Theatre (NYT) Cabaret, a young actor was waiting in the wings of the stage, immobilized by stage fright and anxiety. Nova Courchene, Native Youth Theatre Assistant Director, walked over and sat next to the student. “I asked her what was going on,” remembers Nova. The ...

ASL students pose in front of a train at The Forks THE TEENS ARE ALL RIGHT Ellen Peterson is a local actor and playwright who recently adapted Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre for their 2018 season. She’s also a teacher, including an instructor at Manitoba Theatre for Young People, who believes with her whole ...

A LEAP OF FAITH Daniel Bear was 13-years-old when he started taking classes at MTYP. Fast forward almost ten years, and the now-22-year-old has interned on a professional film set, was featured on CBC’s Unreserved, and named one of the New Indigenous Voices of 2018 by the National Screen Institute. For Daniel, MTYP was not just a place that provided ...

Grace Minsky at MTYP's Summer Camps MTYP STUDENT BECOMES THE TEACHER Since appearing in her elementary school’s holiday concert and being a narrator in her high school’s production of Peter Pan, Grace Minsky has loved being on stage. The bubbly twenty-something performer just completed her sixth summer as an instructor and teaching assistant at MTYP’s Summer Camps. “I love this ...