Actress Mathilde Dratwa
Young Players Theater is dedicated to providing urban children with an opportunity to participate in the dramatic arts, while honing their bi-lingual skills. Director Kristen Lynch, brings together a uniquely qualified collaborative team of Teaching Artists, such as New York-based actress Mathilde Dratwa, to implement diverse roster of education resource that offers a number of engaging drama programs at various locations throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Lynch and her staff offers parents a unique alternative to traditional childcare during annual breaks. And, throughout the balance of the year, YPT’s unique curriculum - from school residencies, after school programs and workshops to special events and holiday camps - offers kids the opportunity to enjoy a theater experience with an integrated academic agenda that sharpens their language skills in Spanish, English and French.
New York has proved to be an ideal base of operations for Ms. Lynch, who has spent the last decade teaching in Paris as well as the US. A savvy New Yorker, she draws upon the city’s diverse pool of talent to create a uniquely qualified team of teaching artists with the dramatic chops and linguistic skills that her method demands. Young Players Theater is the natural extension of her interests in teaching children language and drama, and her dedicated staff of Teaching Artists shares her passion.
Along with acting, teaching children is one of Belgium-born Actress Mathilde Drawtwa's passions. Fluent in French, Spanish and English, she earned her BA in English Literature at Cambridge University, and received her MFA in Classical Acting from Drama Centre in London in 2008. This formally trained, accomplished actress and teacher, brings an extraordinary combination of experience and skills to her position as Teaching Artist at Young Players Theater, making her an ideal fit with its approach.
In between earning her degrees, at the age of 22, Mathilde Dratwa was recruited to establish France’s International School of Toulouse’s first Drama department and develop its extensive curriculum. She spent two years teaching studio performances, "invisible theater performances"
The critically acclaimed LAByrinth Theater Company - a multi-cultural performance collective headed-up by co-artistic directors, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz - recently presented Ms. Dratwa with an opportunity to participate in their Master Class, which is taught by a prestigious roster of company members.
More recently, Ms. Dratwa was accepted into the company's select Intensive Ensemble, for one of just six highly sought after apprentice positions. The group retreated to upstate New York in June for a residential week of workshops and new play development. The LAByrinth Theatre Company, joined by an accomplished group of guest artists, used the opportunity to push their boundaries as actors, participate in a top caliber collaborative ensemble and generate new theatre - all of which has added an invaluable new dimensions to Mathilde Dratwa's skills as a teaching actress.
Mathilde's experience as an actress and teacher is as diverse as her education. In 2006 she co-founded Malaprops, a theatre company dedicated to helping ex-patriot teenagers integrate into the local French communities - and co-wrote and directed the company’s first production, ‘Balconies.”
The recipient of a prize for devising award-winning resources for teaching Shakespeare, earned her a place in a voice workshop with Cicely Berry at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Foreign-language Drama Teaching qualifications from Cursos Internacionales, Salamanca University, Spain, and Oxford University’s online courses in creative writing round out her formal education.
Now living in New York, Mathilde Dratwa has been working at Community Roots Charter School and The International School of Brooklyn.
While community-based theatres can run the gamut from informal improvisational groups to high-priced professional instruction, Young Players Theater provides children in New York’s metropolitan area with access to an affordable creative resource committed to maintaining a level of professionalism, skills, passion and dedication that raises the standard with an approach dedicated to helping children make exciting discoveries about themselves and the world around them, experience the power of change and transformation, and realize their boundless potential.
Structured to provide kids with cost-effect opportunities to improve their language skills through a wide range of theatrically-
For additional information about school programs and classes offered by Young Players Theater go to www.yptheater.org. For Addition Information about actress Mathilde Dratwa contact her management company through info@sjgoldenpr.com
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