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About YET

Youth Ensemble Theater, Inc. (YET) was founded in 2005 with a mission to provide diverse groups of young people and adults with expansive, transformative experiences in the performing and media arts. Now operating as a full-scale award winning theater and film company, YET’s work spans from inclusive, long-form improvisational programs for children, youth, and community members—focused on creating issue-driven theater—to professional productions for stage and screen that reach national and global audiences.

At the heart of YET’s mission is a belief that those most often pushed to the margins who exist outside dominant cultural narratives—are the very changemakers we need to listen to most. YET cultivates and amplifies this message to reshape how we understand justice, belonging, and the future of our communities.

To date, YET has garnered the following awards and performance opportunities in regional, Off-Broadway and community theaters: 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), Denizen Theatre (New Paltz, NY) among others. YET has garnered awards from the American Academy for the Dramatic Arts (Featured performance/Youth Theatre Conference 2018), the NYC Thespian Society (Best Play/Best supporting actress, 2019), NYS Theatre Education Association (Award of Excellence 2019) , and was awarded 1st place, “Best Film 2022” in the Tales From the Catskills Amateur Film Competition for the short film ESCAPE!!!

Sustained through sweat equity, funding and donations, Y.E.T., Inc. aims to champion those young people and adults that are often underrepresented and provide them with an artistic path to their most exceptional selves.

Youth long-form improv games

YET Company/performance troupe

Adult Improv/games

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Y.E.T. PRODUCTIONS

Y.E.T. one-act series!

Y.E.T.’s one act play series program provides teens with the acting training to work with scripted materials.

Y.E.T. film, “Surviving the Jop” 2023

This short film is a comedic spoof of a survival reality show – gone wrong!

Y.E.T. film, “ESCAPE! ” 2022

This campy short horror film received 1st place in the “Tales from the Catskills” contest!

Y.E.T. “ZOOM SCHOOL”, 2020

Totally improvised spoof on students collaborating on a school project during the pandemic.

EPISODE 1

EPISODE 2

Y.E.T. WEiRD Zoom Teleplay, 2020

IN WEIRD, A COMMUNITY UNWITTINGLY CONSPIRES TO VICTIMIZE AND OSTRACIZE A YOUNG PERSON BECAUSE OF HIS INABILITY TO CONFORM.
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED FOR THE NEW ZOOM MEDIUM, WEIRD BREAKS THE FOURTH WALL AND INVITES THE AUDIENCE TO STEP INSIDE OF THE COLLECTED MICRO-INTERACTIONS THAT TELL THIS STORY.

FEATURING: GORDON W. BROWN, KAETHE FINE, CAROLINE JAMESON, TRUDY POUX, EMILY ROSAKRANSE, RAYMOND STOCKIN, QUINN VICTOR, NADJA WELDEN.

Y.E.T. at Denizen Theatre, January 2020

“Black Friday” 100% Improvised Play

Y.E.T. at Byrdcliffe Theatre

One Act Play Series, May 2019

In 2019, YET presented two weekends of contemporary theater in the YET One Act Play Series 2019 at the Byrdcliffe Theatre!  This year’s One Act Series included 13 plays from award-winning playwrights as well as an original play by one of very our teen thespians. 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Amy Poux is a theater and film director. As the former Director of Education for Film at Lincoln Center, Educational Specialist at Stockade Works, founder of Working Playground (AKA Urban Arts Partnership,) Poux has been awarded for her design of in-depth, student-driven arts experiences for young people and intergenerational communities.