A Spennymoor choreographer has been chosen to work on the National Youth Music Theatre's latest production, Late Sleepers.

The theatre group is staging the show on August 16 and 17 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, and has chosen Joanne Banks, from Middlestone Moor, as choreographer.

Joanne, who runs Joanne Bank's Dancers and Centre Stage Theatre School, in Spennymoor, will put about 40 performers through their paces in a series of routines she has devised.