FUTURE DIRECTIONS is a young people’s programme which brings together neurotypical and neurodivergent, learning disabled and autistic people age 16 – 25. It is an invitation to create storytelling in music and to make a new digital opera.

Future Directions is the Music Theatre Wales Young Company, a continuous programme that sits at the heart of the company’s main activity. The digital operas the Young Company creates, in collaboration with the professional facilitators, are presented as one of our core productions on our website to be shared far and wide, seeking new audiences and finding new ways to surprise and excite the audiences who already love our work.

As with all our work, Future Directions is a project that celebrates inclusion and diversity and we warmly welcome young participants age 16 – 25 from all backgrounds. It is delivered in partnership with Hijinx Theatre – one of Europe’s leading inclusive theatre companies, working with neurodivergent, learning disabled and/or autistic artists on stage and screen. And we are keen to stress that one of the major features of Future Directions is the way it brings together young people with and without additional needs, to work together through the combination of story, music, performance and film – storytelling in music as a digital form. The programme is led by creative facilitator, dramaturg and director Jain Boon.