The Barn Theatre is home to an incredible community and provides endless opportunities on stage and off stage. The Barn Youth is the perfect introduction to this theatrical hub, with many of our members forming life-long connections with the theatre as a result.

We have a total of five youth groups. Four junior groups; Owlets, Pigwidgen, Hedwig and Errol and one senior group Hermes – their details can be seen below.

The Youth Theatre provides an opportunity for young people to have some theatre training and gain experience in performance, backstage work, and theatre practices and etiquette.

Members are expected to attend weekly drama workshops/training sessions. The sessions will include improvisation, play readings, characterisation, and group work. In addition, the Youth Theatre may be preparing a Barn main-stage presentation or for a show to be entered into the Welwyn Garden City Youth Drama Festival.

We are lucky to have a wonderful team of leaders running our group sessions and their hard work and dedication can not be overstated. We thank them all wholeheartedly, past and present, for the contribution and difference they have made to literally hundreds of young people.

Alumni

We have a huge number of ex-youth theatre members who have gone on to work professionally in the entertainment industry.  So many of these ex-members, and some current ones too, that now work as back-stage technicians and as actors and writers alike, have benefitted enormously from the foundations set in their early years, learning and enjoying the Barn Youth Theatre activities.