Dates and Application for 2008 Young Company will be available soon.

To receive information when it becomes available, please send email to youngcompany@publicktheatre.com

About the Young Company Program

The purpose of the Publick Theatre's Young Company is to immerse interested teenagers in the rigors of classical outdoor theatre performance. 

The program is intended to integrate young aspiring actors into a working professional company to allow them to experience first-hand what it takes to be a professional actor.

A goal-oriented arts program with an active urban outreach policy intended to make the next generation of Greater Boston actors more demographically representative of the region. 

The Young Company's strategy is to create linkage with existing performing arts groups in the Boston Schools and neighborhoods, thereby providing a next step for the most promising young actors and performing arts technicians. By building on, rather than duplicating, the work of existing programs, The Publick Theatre can bridge the gap between school and community programs and performing arts organizations, as well as furthering its own artistic goals. As such, it can foster a sense of professionalism and career possibilities for youngsters who otherwise may lack such role models, while simultaneously developing a diverse and well-trained community of theatre artists for tomorrow.

Publick Theatre Boston names Director
for 2008 Young Company Program

Steven Bogart, teacher and director from Lexington High School, will serve as Director of the 2008 Young Company Program. He holds a BFA in painting from Tufts University, an MA in Theater from Emerson College, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. He has created ensemble driven original works that have performed professionally at the Boston Center for the Arts, The Berkshire Center for Contemporary Art and other nontraditional performance spaces. He is the author of many stage plays and screenplays. His play, Conspiracy of Memory was a Kennedy Center Finalist for New American Plays in 2002, and was premiered in Boston in 2004. His play, Alice in War was part of the 2007 Summer Play Festival in NYC and Stageleft Theatre’s Leapfest 2008 in Chicago. He is cofounder of Rouged Ape, a paratheatrical theater company. He has led workshops in collaborative playwriting around the state of Massachusetts, and has created over thirty workshop theater pieces. Many of these plays were developed with High School students and won state and national competitions.