Category: General News

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Olly Smith has been awarded the President’s Award for the Highest Achiever by Ray Banks, President of KYDS.

Ray told us why he decided to give Olly the award from the Society’s recent production of Cinderella:

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“Every production that KYDS puts on, I always watch for the person who, in my considered opinion, has achieved the highest standard of progress during the rehearsal run. 

Sometimes it is quite easy to see who is achieving most. At other times it is a much harder task, with several making a huge effort to achieve high standards. Such was the case during our latest production of Cinderella.

Eventually Olly Smith shone through, with good performances of several different characters. Olly was a worthy winner of the President’s Highest Achiever Award.”

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We would like to congratulate our first ever Jack Petchey Achievement Award winner, Lucy Greed! Lucy was nominated by members of the cast of Cinderella to receive the award after she rose to the challenge of playing the title role in the show. Youth members explained that Lucy had overcome big challenges during rehearsals for the show and had stepped out of her comfort zone. At the same time, Lucy continued to act as a role model and supported younger members of the cast. Some of the comments submitted by members of the cast are below:

Lucy Greed with Dannii Carr, Youth Liaison Officer (L) and James Stocker, Trustee and Jack Petchey Coordinator (R)

[I nominate Lucy] “Because she has shown such progress from the beginning of this show and to see her overcome her fear of singing in public needs great recognition. I’m so proud of her.”

“I would like to nominate Lucy mostly because of what she has become over the past few weeks. She’s put so much effort into being Cinderella this term that I think she deserves it. I also nominate her for how much she cares for everyone at Kyds as she’s certainly made me feel welcome!“

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James Stocker, one of our Trustees, chatted with Tony Fisher today on BBC Essex about KYDS and our forthcoming production Cinderella!

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Never too far away from Tiptree

A lot of dessert was consumed through the week

Because KYDS is run entirely by volunteers, opportunities like this are so important to ensure that we are providing the best experience possible for our members. From morning warm-ups, to strictly come dancing theme nights, to karaoke, to end of week performances, every opportunity during the week offered new and exciting ideas which our volunteers will bring to KYDS to continue to improve the work that we do.

Our volunteers are already counting down to next year, who knows what they will be learning next!? KYDS would like to thank the NODA Summer School team for a fantastic opportunity and a wonderful week.

If you are interested in joining KYDS as a volunteer, get in touch with us today.

Dannii Carr and James Stocker with other students and Tutor Susie Dumbreck on the Directing Musical Theatre Course

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We are delighted to have been awarded £1000 from the Aviva Community Fund. This funding will be put towards a programme of workshops over the summer. These workshops will help to build young people’s skills which they will be able to use in later life.

We would like to thank Aviva for this generous donation.

We would also like to thank the many KYDS supporters and their friends and family who took the trouble to vote for us in this funding competition. Your continued support of the Society is invaluable. Thanks to you, KYDS will be able to continue its important work in the community.

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KYDS has received nominations for NINE different awards from the North Essex Theatre Guild!

The nominations are spread across the Society’s two most recent productions, the 2012 pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Seussical Junior which was performed in July this year.

We are delighted that the hard work all our members put in to our productions, both on-stage and off-stage, has been recognised in this way.

The awards ceremony will take place in September and we wish all our nominees the very best of luck!

King Costume Award
for Seussical Junior

Adjudicators’ Award 
Leon Kennedy and Andrew Stocker for their comic pair playing in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best Young Actress
Rachel Shortland as Queen Avarice in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best Supporting Actor
Peter Greenwood as The Cat in the Hat in Seussical Junior

Best Dame
Jordan Murphy as Dame Edna in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best Actor
Dan Carr as Chuckles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
and as Horton in Seussical Junior

Collyer-Smith Marine Trophy for Best Musical
for Seussical Junior, directed by Alexandra Berriman

Eric Dyster Cup for Best Pantomime or Children’s Play
for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, directed by Jon Beales

The Terry Sadler Memorial Trophy for Front of House
for Seussical Junior

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