New production images have been released this week of Twelfth Night, a National Youth Theatre production performed by the NYT REP company…
Shakespeare’s hilarious and heartbreaking classic is adapted for the NYT REP Company by former Artistic director of the Gate Theatre Ellen McDougall, whose recent credits include As You Like It for the Globe Theatre and Watch on the Rhine for the Donmar Warehouse.
Meghan Doyle, the 2018 Bryan Forbes Young Director Bursary Recipient returns to the NYT REP company fold to direct, following her celebrated production of To Kill a Mockingbird at the Lyric Hammersmith and Up All Night at the Duke of York’s Theatre. This production of Twelfth Night follows the 2024 REP company’s production of The War of the Worlds, which played at Wilton’s Music Hall in October to critical acclaim.
The NYT 2024 REP company consists of Selorm Adonu, Stella Blakeley, Emily Casey, Talitha Christina, Luc de Freitas, Megan Keaveny, Tyler Kinghorn, Holly Masters, Laura Masters, David Olaniregun, Edward Oulton, Freya Catherine Purdie, Daniel Regan, Dominic Semwanga, Cathy Sole, Ruari Spooner, Ruby Ward and Alfie Wickham.

NYT REP Company members performing Twelfth Night / Image: Helen Murray
Now in its 12th year, the National Youth Theatre’s REP company has collectively engaged 170 performers, 8 emerging directors and over 50 young backstage creatives for free since 2012. The NYT REP Company was launched in 2012 as a free alternative to formal training in direct response to the tripling of tuition fees. Since then the REP has become a vital alternative route, especially for those who have already attended university.
Graduates from the NYT REP company include Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, who appeared this year as Juliet in the West End opposite Tom Holland, double Scottish BAFTA winner Lauren Lyle (Karen Pirie) and BAFTA nominated Slow Horses star Sope Dirisu.
This year’s mentors on the scheme include Sherwood’s Ria Zmitrowicz who found her route into the industry via the NYT’s free Playing Up social inclusion course, and The Gentleman star Dan Ings who gained his first agent through his work as a young performer with the NYT.

NYT REP Company members performing Twelfth Night / Image: Helen Murray
Twelfth Night production is now playing at the NYT’s Workshop Theatre until 18 December. Ticket Information.