Annual Youth Drama Festival
Every autumn, twenty amateur youth companies from across Transylvania and Muntenia meet in Sibiu for five days of performance, critique and shared meals.
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Romanian cultural foundation · Est. 1995
Empowering Youth Through Stage, Storytelling, and Cultural Heritage Since 1995.
For three decades our rehearsal rooms in Sibiu and Bucharest have been open to any young person willing to step into the light — no audition fee, no background required.
✦ Registered foundation✦ NRN 984/B/1995✦ Public-benefit, non-profit status✦ Registered seat: Sibiu, Romania
Thirty years of work, one rehearsal at a time
The Foundation was created in 1995 by a group of actors, teachers and parents who believed that a young person who learns to speak on a stage will speak up anywhere else in life. We began with a borrowed hall, twelve teenagers and a single stage light.
Today we run free weekly theatre workshops, produce community stage seasons, train stagecraft apprentices, and safeguard the repertoire and oral memory of Romanian youth theatre. Everything we do stays free or pay-what-you-can for the young people who take part.
- 30
- Years of continuous activity
- 6,400+
- Young participants trained
- 180
- Community productions staged
- 1,200
- Free workshop hours each year
Programmes currently running across Sibiu and Bucharest.
Featured projects & seasons
Free Community Acting Workshops
Weekly evening sessions for ages 12–24 in voice, movement, improvisation and text work. No fee, no selection, no prior experience.
Read more →Independent Playwright Incubator
A nine-month mentorship for emerging Romanian writers, ending in a staged reading season with professional dramaturgs.
Read more →Stagecraft Apprenticeships
Hands-on training in lighting, sound, scenography and costume for young people entering technical theatre trades.
Read more →Keep a rehearsal room open
Our workshops are free because people choose to fund them. Twenty euros covers one young actor for a full month.
Fundaţia Teatrul Tineretului din Bucureşti · NRN 984/B/1995 · Strada Berăriei FN, 550173 Sibiu, Romania