National Youth Music Theatre

National Youth Music Theatre

Abbreviation	NYMT
Formation	1976; 48 years ago (1976)
Type	Arts and education charity
Headquarters	London
Region served	United Kingdom
Founder	Jeremy James Taylor OBE
President	Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
Patrons	Jason Robert Brown, Tom Chambers, Idris Elba, Howard Goodall, Michael Jibson, Toby Jones, Jude Law, Sheridan Smith
CEO	Adrian Packer CBE
Website	www.nymt.org.uk
Formerly called	Children's Music Theatre

The National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT) is an arts organisation in the United Kingdom providing pre-professional education and musical theatre stage experience for young people. Based in London, it is constituted as a private limited company (originally named Children's Music Theatre Limited) and as a registered charity. NYMT was founded in 1976 by director and playwright Jeremy James Taylor. Since its inception, it has produced more than fifty productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, premièred thirty new musical theatre works, toured several times outside the United Kingdom, and had runs in the West End and on Broadway.

Among the many alumni of the National Youth Music Theatre who have gone on to careers in the performing arts are actors Idris Elba and Jude Law, both of whom are also patrons of the organisation, along with Jonny Lee Miller, Sheridan Smith, Connie Fisher, and Matt Lucas.^[1] Alumni have also included directors such as Jo Davies, and songwriters such as Tara Mcdonald.