Committed To Our Youth Members

As a club, we are very proud of our youth members and our long established passion to promote and sustain amateur dramatics for all age groups. Many that joined the club as young as 5 upwards have gone on to achieve great success in a variety of performance & backstage roles within theatre, film and television. Whilst some have departed Carnoustie in order to follow their path in the industry within larger cities, others have returned to their home roots and promptly re-ignited involvement with their beloved club- and what a warm welcome back is received!

CTC provide an opportunity for our youths to audition for productions throughout the year; we aim to choose productions that involve differing levels of ability from chorus to walk on roles, to minor speaking and major lead parts.This allows each member to develop and gain confidence at their own pace and most of all to have fun!

If you are not entirely sold on the idea of becoming a member with a view to performing onstage, you should know that we also encourage youth members to experience backstage roles in sound, lighting, stage management, prompting and prop construction.We currently have many younger members who actively step forward frequently to assist and help with club 'business' as and when it is required....it is definately not just about being visually seen on stage all of the time! 

You might like the idea of putting yourself forward to be elected as one of our Youth Representatives, or you could even win our Youth Achievement Award- read below about our longstanding youth members Harry, Ethan, Sarah and Cerys. 

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Youth Achievement Award 2016-2017

Winners Harry Cheape & Ethan Doherty

This dynamic duo has supported the club for 10 years now, on & off stage. Their close friendship has added a real sense of fun and camaraderie to the youth segment of the club, a really good example of what we wish all of our members to experience when they join us. 2017 is the last year both of them would be considered as 'youths' so we felt it was the right time to show our appreciation by awarding them both with the trophy. Congratulations to you!

What would they like to share about being a member...

Harry "I ​joined Carnoustie Theatre Club a decade ago as both of my parents were members of the club. As a kid, I loved watching every type of production they were in and so this got me really keen to step onto the stage myself. After years of being a member of the club I'm still loving every bit of it. I say this because it doesn't feel like work at all but instead feels like a really fun hobby that provides a great social space for youths to interact with one another.

Ever since I joined the club I've been mainly acting on stage in both major lead roles and smaller ones in productions for the SCDA youth festival and our annual CTC pantomime (most recently Sleeping Beauty). However, I have started to focus in on different backstage production roles such as lighting and sound other than just acting. That is why I think it's great to get involved with the club as they offer you many different opportunities and not just acting. If you feel uncomfortable doing one thing then you could do another, the Carnoustie Theatre Club has it all."

Ethan "

Youth Reps 2016-2017

Sarah Oliphant & Cerys Fitzgerald

Youth Reps 2017-2018

Katey McLeish & Hollie MacIntosh

Congratulations to these young ladies who were elected as our Youth Representatives for the coming year! We would like to extend a very warm and big THANKYOU to Cerys and Sarah as our previous Reps for 2016-2017 who continue to support the club in many other ways with huge enthusiasm, teamwork, friendship and of course, bags of talent!