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 17, 2026 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 11th 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.
2026/27 Program
GENERAL PROGRAM DATES: The program runs between December 2026 – February 2027. 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. The first rehearsal is Monday, November 30 from 6-9 pm at Cape Rep Indoor Theater.
SIGN UP DEADLINE: Monday, November 23, 2026
Performances for our 11th production will be Friday February 5, 2027 at 7 pm, and Saturday February 6, 2027 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, This Restless House: Agamamnon’s Return and A Monster Calls 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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