Yellow Academy is back and this time it’s bigger!

Yellow Academy is a FREE intensive 2 week performance course led by theatre professionals 16th - 26th July 2012

Are you a young British East Asian* (16+) who has always wanted to perform or write but never been to drama school? Considering a career in theatre, film and television? Then read on. Yellow Academy is for you.....

This year you will work with Kumiko Mendl, Artistic Director of Yellow Earth, to create and rehearse an exciting piece of site specific theatre. Classes in voice, movement, combat and acting for camera will be provided and you’ll get support from drama tutors. The performance will be presented on the final evening in and around the extraordinary gothic Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, the Academy of Live and Recorded Art’s London home.

This year we are also looking for two new writers who will work with Clive Duncan, Co-Director of ALRA, to learn the basics of script writing and then develop the work devised by the acting students into a script.

The course will be held in London for 2 weeks 16 – 26 July.

Past Yellow Academy students are welcome to apply.


If you are interested in applying to join as an actor or as a writer –

Click here to download the application form

We will be holding two workshop auditions for actors

London – at ALRA South, Saturday 28th April 2- 5pm

Manchester – at Zion Arts, Saturday 19th May 2 – 5pm

Interviews with writers will be arranged individually.

But hurry. There are only 16 places on the course so it’s highly competitive.

If you are successful, we will then offer you a place on the Yellow Academy 2012 course which will be in London.

Apply now for this great opportunity!

Yellow Academy is presented by Yellow Earth & the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts


*British East Asian descent includes: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and their Diasporas.