Free Professional Training for Young People
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ABOUT THE YOUNG COMPANY (YoCo):
Cape Rep Theatre invites young people grades 8 through 12 to be part of our Young Company. Cape Rep’s Young Company Initiative (YoCo) provides free professional theater training to young actors eager to learn the craft of acting through an intensive rehearsal and production process. All interested students are welcomed into this free annual program.
INFORMATION SESSION: Saturday, October 18, 2025 at Cape Rep Indoor Theater, 11 am until 11:30-ish. This is a brief information session about our upcoming plans for the 2025/2026 session of Young Company. Come with questions, to sign up or to just to get to know us!
Now going into our 10th year, the Young Company (YoCo) is a free, fun, inclusive, challenging professional theater training program for young actors taught by Cape Rep’s resident artists and led by Associate Artistic Director Maura Hanlon. Do you want a career in theater? Join us. Have you never been in a show but always wanted to try it out? Join us! We’d love to have you.
2025/26 Program
GENERAL PROGRAM DATES: The program runs between December 2025 – February 2026. Rehearsals happen over 8 weeks and are typically Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from 6-9 until the week leading up to performance; we break for the holidays. The full schedule will be available at the info session.
SIGN UP DEADLINE: Monday, November 24, 2025
Performances for our 10th production will be February 6, 2026 at 7 pm, and February 7, 2026 at 2 pm and 7 pm.
Email us at YoCo@caperep.org for more information about joining the program.
Our past productions of Macbeth, Great Expectations , The Odyssey , Once In A Lifetime , Waiting for Ham , a collection of original short plays by local playwrights commissioned exclusively for YoCo, and Winter’s Tale , a dual presentation of Dead End and Waiting for Lefty, and This Restless House: Agamamnon’s Return were a huge success with audiences and the young actors involved.
Click here to listen to YoCo director Maura Hanlon’s interview with NPR’s Mindy Todd on “The Point.”
Thank to the following businesses and organizations for their generous support of the YoCo program:
Robert & Margery Glovin and The Samuel W. and Jacob I. Brier Charitable Fund, Dan Wolf & Heidi Schuetz, the John K. & Thirza F. Davenport Foundation, The Cape Cod Five Foundation and Michele & Gary Clarke, with the support of
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