The Marsh - MYT Marsh Youth Theater


MYT Teen Troupe MYT Teen Troupe was created to serve the artistic needs of high school and college students, producing original theater specifically created by and for teenagers. MYT has lots of new opportunities for creative teens. Please take our survey and tell us about your interests/talents /schedules. We want to hear from you! Contact: myt@themarsh.org for more info.

Check out troupe member Isabella Wen's Travelling Art documentary about MYT Teen Troupe and Truthtopia. Lear more about Truthtopia by clicking here
Upcoming Teen Troupe Ensemble Productions

Director Ellen Sebastian Chang		MYT's Audition for Jip His Story Entering grades 9 and up. (late teens, early 20's students welcome) Still looking for male actors. Auditions by appointment. Contact myt@themarsh.org Rehearsals: June2-June 28 M, W-Sat 10-4 Performances June 28-July 15 Activities Fee: $150 (work exchange available) MYT remounts its popular 2005 production of Katherine Paterson’s historical novel about a 1850’s Vermont boy caught in a web of racial and class prejudice. Jip knows only that he was left on the side of the road when he was a toddler and brought up on a poor farm. Who are his parents? Where is he from? When Jip discovers the truth, his whole life is changed. Two-time Newbery Award winner Katherine Paterson is the National Ambassador for Children’s Literature and one of the nation's best writers of young people’s fiction. This will be an auditioned production for MYT Teens with a few additional younger actors included. Jip, His Story will be directed by one of the Bay Area’s best-known directors, Ellen Sebastian Chang, who informs her directing with a keen interest in social and racial issues. Ellen is the Artistic Director of The World as It Could Be human rights education program and has dozens of directing credits. Read about Ellen on our Faculty Bio page. Klion and Duncan’s adaptation of Jip, His Story won Curtain Call’s American Harmony Prize. Our 2012 production is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. back to top


Gary Soto's Novio Boy Gary Soto		Rehearsals: October 2012-February 2013 Performances: February 2013 MYT is thrilled to have received a prestigious Creative Work Fund grant to collaborate with the great writer and poet, Gary Soto to create a new play about undocumented teenagers. This important issue touches all of us—from the teenagers whose dreams of college and future employment are stymied by their immigration status, to their documented friends and families who yearn to include them fully in the community’s collective visions. Director Cliff Mayotte, in his role as Education Director of McSweeny’s Voice of Witness, will train MYT’s Creative Corps in oral history methods. MYT Teens will then interview undocumented peers throughout the community, whose stories will be combined and fictionalized in Soto’s script. This is an incredible opportunity to work with a world-author in creating an important new work of theater and social justice. back to top

		MYT Teen Touring Troupe present Truthtopia Directed by Cliff Mayotte Grades 9 and up Friday May 11, 7:30 pm Saturday May 12, 2pm The Center for the Arts 314 West Main Street, Grass Valley, CA 95945 Check out troupe member Isabella Wen's Travelling Art documentary about MYT Teen Troupe and Truthtopia. Lear more about Truthtopiaby clicking here