{"id":2199026,"date":"2025-12-15T00:42:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2199026"},"modified":"2025-12-15T00:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:42:43","slug":"british-youth-music-theatre-announces-2025-new-music-theatre-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/british-youth-music-theatre-announces-2025-new-music-theatre-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"British Youth Music Theatre Announces 2025 New Music Theatre Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"off2\" style=\"background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1a1a1a 0%, #2d2d2d 100%); border-radius: 12px; padding: 10px;margin: 10px 0; box-shadow: 0 8px 32px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); border: 1px solid #333;\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-content\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 class=\"newsletter-title\" style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0 0 10px 0; line-height: 1.3; font-family: \" arial=\"\" sans-serif=\"\">\n            \ud83c\udfad NEW! 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UK Theatre Newsletter<br \/>\n        <\/h3>\n<p class=\"newsletter-subtitle\" style=\"color: #cccccc; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; line-height: 1.5; font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;\">\n            Get all the top news &amp; discounts for UK &amp; beyond.\n        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The announcement was revealed at BYMT\u2019s end-of-year Let It Snow celebration at Woolwich Works on Sunday, December 14.<\/p>\n<p>Peregrin (composer\/co-lyricist) and Jackson (writer\/co-lyricist) are a Birmingham-based writing team who met through their mutual nail tech. They are passionate about creating shows that make for a great night out, tell stories set outside of London, and explore what Britishness means today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sea Change is a bold new folk musical exploring belonging, community, and the risks and rewards of stepping into the unknown. Myth meets modern Britain in this reimagination of Selkie folklore; blending shanty-inspired folk with contemporary storytelling. It is about young people making life-shaping choices, about communities uniting in the face of change, and about the eternal pull between freedom and belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Peregrin is a composer, actor and writer whose performing credits include My Lover was a Salmon in the Climate Apocalypse. Her new folk musical Elbow Deep, about sheep farming and baby loss, is currently being developed by Birmingham Hippodrome and was showcased at BEAM. Jackson is a writer, actor, director, Associate Artist at the National Youth Theatre and mentor for NT Connections. His playwriting credits for youth theatre include The Final Showdown at Birmingham Hippodrome and Make Me Feel at the Bush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- End Ezoic - Article Insertion 1 - under_page_title --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m thrilled that Eli and I have won,&#8221; said Jackson. &#8220;It\u2019s such an exciting opportunity to join the BYMT family. Sea Change is a show all about young people finding their path, so I can\u2019t think of a better way for it to premiere. I\u2019ve been a huge fan of Eli\u2019s work and feel very lucky I&#8217;ve had the chance to collaborate with her on this. It&#8217;s incredibly rare to have the support in writing a show of such scale. I can\u2019t wait to see what the young company creates and how they will bring our characters to life in ways we\u2019ve never imagined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winning the NMTA with Will is such an adventure,&#8221; said\u00a0Peregrin.\u00a0&#8220;To get our work staged in a leading UK theatre venue and performed by such talented young people is just a dream. To get to work with such a big cast and bring the magic of British mythology to the stage is so exciting. I\u2019m so looking forward to working with BYMT to create something the performers can really get their teeth into and seeing how they make the show their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - Article Insertion 2 - mid_content --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- End Ezoic - Article Insertion 2 - mid_content --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to be working with this inspirational duo, Eli and Will, to develop and produce their first musical together as a writing team,&#8221; said BYMT creative director Emily Gray. &#8220;The themes of transformation, questioning what it is to be mythological and\/or human and creating united communities feel pertinent and perfect for BYMT\u2019s Young Company. Watching and helping \u00a0Sea Change take shape is going to be magical, playful and powerful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The engaging story line, detailed characters and brilliant music drew me to love this show,&#8221; said Hannah, NMTA Panel. &#8220;The style of music is one that is rare in musical theatre, so it really stood out. This show will be a great fit for a BYMT production because of the integral role each character gets to play in the show. I can\u2019t wait to see how this show comes to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - Article Insertion 3 - long_content --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- End Ezoic - Article Insertion 3 - long_content --><\/p>\n<p>The NMTA is an annual prize to find and support exciting new writers, lyricists, composers, musical producers and creators based in the UK or Ireland. The prize provides the winner with a platform to develop their first new musical to full production with the young people of the BYMT company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2019, previous NMTA winners are: Eden Tredwell (writer\/lyricist\/composer) for The Glamification of Loki &#8211; which premiered at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in August 2025, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Bethany-Tennick\/\">Bethany Tennick<\/a> (composer) and Iona Ramsay (writer) for Welcome to Serene, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Lewis-Cornay\/\">Lewis Cornay<\/a> for Harry &amp; Greta, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Martha-Geelan\/\">Martha Geelan<\/a> (writer) and Jack Godfrey (composer) for Babies (which went on to enjoy a professional run at The Other Palace following its BYMT premiere), and the first ever NMTA recipients Elizabeth Charlesworth (composer) and Rachel Bellman (writer) for The Dickens Girls.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Whatsapp --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Whatsapp --><\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}\n(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init','128124764529976');\nfunction uuidv4(){\n  if (window.crypto && crypto.getRandomValues) {\n    return 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(\/[xy]\/g,c=>{\n      const r=crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(1))[0]&15, v=c==='x'?r:(r&0x3|0x8); return v.toString(16);\n    });\n  }\n  return 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(\/[xy]\/g,c=>{\n    const r=Math.random()*16|0, v=c==='x'?r:(r&0x3|0x8); return v.toString(16);\n  });\n}\nconst fbEventId = uuidv4();\nconst topicParams = {\n  show_name: \"\",\n      region: \"UK\"\n};\nfbq('track','PageView',{}, {eventID: fbEventId});\nfbq('trackCustom','TheatreTopicView', topicParams, {eventID: fbEventId});\nfunction getCookie(n){return document.cookie.split('; ').find(r=>r.startsWith(n+'='))?.split('=')[1]||'';}\nfunction toHex(buf){return Array.from(new Uint8Array(buf)).map(b=>b.toString(16).padStart(2,'0')).join('');}\nasync function sha256Hex(str){ const enc=new TextEncoder(); const data=enc.encode(str.toLowerCase().trim()); const hash=await crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', data); return toHex(hash); }\n(async function sendToCapi(){\n  const fbp = getCookie('_fbp') || null;\n  const fbc = getCookie('_fbc') || null;\n  const emailCookie = getCookie('EMAIL') || '';\n  let hashedEmail = null;\n  if (emailCookie) {\n    try { hashedEmail = await sha256Hex(emailCookie); } catch(e){ hashedEmail = null; }\n  }\n  \/\/ Inject the server-detected IP (IPv6 preferred) and UA\n  const clientIp = \"144.76.14.2\";\n  const clientUA = \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; trendictionbot0.5.0; trendiction search; http:\/\/www.trendiction.de\/bot; please let us know of any problems; web at trendiction.com) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/125.0\";\n  const payload = {\n    event_id: fbEventId,\n    event_source_url: window.location.href,\n    action_source: 'website',\n    user_data: {\n      fbp: fbp,\n      fbc: fbc\n    },\n    events: [\n      { name:'PageView', params:{} },\n      { name:'TheatreTopicView', params: topicParams }\n    ]\n  };\n  if (hashedEmail) payload.user_data.em = hashedEmail;\n  if (clientIp)    payload.user_data.client_ip_address = clientIp;   \/\/ Meta CAPI will accept IPv6 or IPv4\n  if (clientUA)    payload.user_data.client_user_agent  = clientUA;\n  const url=\"\/meta_capi.php\";\n  const body = JSON.stringify(payload);\n  if (!hashedEmail && navigator.sendBeacon) {\n    navigator.sendBeacon(url, new Blob([body], {type:'application\/json'}));\n  } else {\n    fetch(url, { method:'POST', headers:{'Content-Type':'application\/json'}, body });\n  }\n})();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.broadwayworld.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfad NEW! 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