Colin has been a performing arts practitioner for the last 30 years. His experience spans from playing in rock groups (including working alongside Mick Hucknall) and singing backing vocals on the Sad Café hit ‘Everyday Hurts’ to appearing in ‘Coronation Street’, ‘Brookside’ and ‘A Touch of Frost’ to name just a few.

Over the last twenty years Colin has been involved with many Youth Theatres in the local area and worked in schools and colleges teaching Performing Arts. Between 1996 and 2010 he ran the highly successful Next Generation Youth Theatre in Mossley.

He has plied his trade over the past 10 years as a successful professional Actor/Writer/Director and Facilitator, working with companies whose portfolios include Theatre-In-Education (T.I.E.), Issue-Based Theatre and diversity and equality training.

Alongside his professional career Colin has been seen in principal roles in amateur productions for many local Societies, in such shows as ‘Godspell’, ‘The Wiz’, ‘The Music Man’, ‘Blood Brothers’ and ‘Children of a Lesser God’ along with many others.

Kathryn earned a degree in Drama with Education from the University of Warwick before going on to teach in primary schools in Bolton and Tameside. During this time she also worked as a Leading Behaviour Teacher in Tameside, working alongside and providing support for teachers dealing with serious behavioural issues within the classroom. As a teacher Kathryn ran drama and music clubs in schools.

Kathryn was responsible for the primary age workshops at the Next Generation Youth Theatre in Mossley, and developed a new drama curriculum to improve planning and teaching of workshops within the Youth Theatre and to ensure continuity across the various sessions.

Kathryn has appeared on stage in plays and musicals for over 15 years, and has recently been nominated for 3 awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at both the National Operatic & Dramatic Association (NODA) North West Awards, and at the Manchester Musical Awards, for her roles as Charity Barnum in “Barnum”, and Tzeitel in “Fiddler on the Roof”. Kathryn also directed the winner of the "Best Play" Award in the Junior secion at the Hale One Act Play Festival in 2008.

Peter joined the company in February 2011. He studied Drama and Theatre throughout school and college before going on to study Business Computing with Software Development at the University of Huddersfield.

He joins the company as Education Administrator and will be focusing on YouTheatreUK, helping us continue to provide the highest possible quality of service to you and of course our performers.

He will take over as first port of call for any enquiries about YouTheatreUK and deal with the day to day running of the company. As a youth he frequently attended Oldham Theatre Workshop and therefore appreciates how advantageous workshops and performing at a young age are for development and character building both in theatre and in day to day life.

Peter’s favourite theatre productions are Blood Brothers and Jesus Christ Superstar, the latter of which he has performed in.

Sean Wilcock has a BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre. He graduated from University of Huddersfield in the summer and has worked in various professional theatres throughout the North West.

We are incredibly happy he has chosen to further his career in theatre with us. He joins as Productions Administrator/Technical Director. He will primarily take responsibility organising and maintaining administration of the company.

He will also be designing all technical aspects of our productions. His experience and knowledge of these aspects of theatre, from stage management to lighting and sound design, will add an entirely new dimension to our company.

His enthusiasm to pass on what he has learned will open up a whole range of new possibilities for our young performers.