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Y.E.T. Summer Workshop’s NEW DATES July 1 – 9, 10 AM – 2:30 PM
Youth Ensemble Theater @ The Rosendale Theatre! Our dates have changed & we have a couple of spots available!
Youth Ensemble Theater will bring its devised theater institute to The Rosendale Theatre this summer. In the YET Institute, youth will work in teams to develop original work, using the Youth Ensemble Theater’s approach to devised improvisation-based theater and create a collection of works to be shown on Saturday, July 9th at 2:00 PM (a ticketed event).
NEW programmatic dates:
DATES: Friday, July 1 – Saturday, July 9, 10 AM to 2:30 PM DAILY except for Wednesday July 6: 10 AM to 1:00 PM
PERFORMANCE: Saturday, July 9, 2 PM.
AGES: 11 – 18
FEE: $320
Amy Poux, YET Director
Amy Poux has directed young adults and youth, and created YA content since 1991, first as founder of the pioneering arts education company, Working Playground, Inc. (AKA: Urban Arts Partnership) in NYC, and later upon establishing Youth Ensemble Theater (YET), an award-winning theater company for rural youth in Ulster county.
Youth Ensemble Theater (Y.E.T.) has garnered awards from NYC Thespian Society (Best Play/Best supporting actress, 2019), NYS Theatre Education Association (Award of Excellence 2019), American Academy for the Dramatic Arts (Featured performance/Youth Theatre Conference 2018) among others. Y.E.T. plays have performed Off-Broadway at the 52nd Street Project and Bank Street Theater (NYC), and regionally at The Richard B. Fisher Performing Arts Center (Bard College), NY State & Film/Powerhouse Theater Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Boughton Place (Highland, NY), Byrdcliffe Theater (Woodstock, NY), and High Meadow Performing Arts Center (Stone Ridge, NY). In pandemic times Poux pivoted to direct the YET Zoom teleplay “WEIrD” and the episodic spoof “Zoom School”, as well as creating a number of free Zoom improv programs for adults and youth.
As former Director of Education, Film at Lincoln Center, Poux designed and implemented filmmaking programs for thousands of NYC youth. She co-designed Stockade Works’ signature crew Boot Camps in Kingston. In 2019 Poux wrote/directed Do Nothings, a short film about a gender-queer teen and in 2020 she made the film’s sequel, I’m Okay. (Produced by HUDSY-TV and Northguild) Both films were Awarded by NYWIFT iWoman Shorts Fest 2022, and New Filmmakers NY Altfest, 2021.
Most recently, Poux produced the feature film, Sunday at Il Posto Accanto by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (“Them” Amazon, “The Get Down”/Netflix) to be released in 2023.