SPY with their YouthFest 08 Awards:
Melville Theatre Company Encouragement Award
Best Actress (Senior) - Kendra O'Byrne
Great Ensemble Work

SPY

The late Stirling Players club veteran, Brian Maddocks, started Stirling Players Youth (SPY) in 2001. The group continues to run on the same initiative it began with – to teach young people all aspects of the theatre and build them into strong young actors for the theatre world. The group focuses not only on acting and performing itself, but teaches members about all the integral parts that make a theatre – from lighting and sound to front of house and stage managing. The SPY group has the advantage of working within a running theatre and, in the past, members of Stirling have given workshops for the group.

SPY runs with the school term, and works toward some sort of performance at the end of the term whether it be a theatre sports competition night, a short skit for the Stirling Theatre club nights or a one-act play to be entered in the state youth drama festival. There is something different each term, and there are new challenges to be met all the time. Members also have the opportunity to get involved in major shows at Stirling. In recent years, the club has staged youth-dominated productions; including Noah: The Musical, Narnia: the Musical and Toad of Toad Hall. SPY members are also encouraged to take up technical roles and be involved in the theatre.

SPY is free to join; however all members are asked to join the Stirling Players. This is as simple as $14 for the year for persons under 18, or the entire family can join. Stirling Players Youth runs every Wednesday during the school term from 7-9pm at the Stirling Theatre (located in Morris Place, Innaloo).

For further information, do not hesitate to contact the SPY co-ordinator, Cassie Vagliviello, on 0402 765 935.

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