Acting classes focus on fun, creative learning through theatre games and guided improvisation. Students are introduced to the basics of the Meisner technique in an age-appropriate way, learning how to listen, respond, and stay present with their scene partners. Classes also include sensory activities, beginner scene work, and simple audition skills.
Our six-week summer session is a wonderful introduction to acting. Students who continue during the school year have the opportunity to build their skills through one-act plays, scene nights, and other performance experiences.
In addition to building acting skills, this class helps children grow in confidence, improve public speaking, think on their feet, and express themselves more comfortably in a variety of situations.

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Teen Acting focuses on improvisation, scene work, and foundational Meisner technique. Students develop truthful, responsive acting skills through theatre games, repetition exercises, sensory work, and scripted scene study.

This class is designed as a year-long course of study, where students apply their training in one-act plays, scene nights, and performance opportunities throughout the season. Many students use these skills to earn roles in school and community productions. Earning a role is not the end of an actor’s training—it is an opportunity to put that training into practice. Like dance, music, or any serious art form, acting develops through consistent training, practice, and performance over time.

The Summer Session is a six-week intensive designed to supplement, rather than replace, school-year training.

Beyond the stage, students build confidence, strengthen communication skills, and develop the ability to think on their feet. Most importantly, acting fosters awareness, humanity, and deep empathy by encouraging students to understand the world through the experiences of others—skills that extend far beyond the stage and into everyday life.

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Musical Theatre for ages 9-12 is an introduction into the three performing arts that make up Musical Theatre (dance, voice and acting). Focus is on improvisational acting to be able to free up the actor onstage in spontaneous situations for both comedy and drama, using experiences within the student’s life and imagination as well as specific techniques for creating the who, the where and the what. Students will play multiple parts and be required to change characters quickly and within the same play. Singing/voice is also taught in a group setting with opportunities for solo lines within each song and choreography is used when putting together song and dance numbers. Although dance is not taught in this class, students are strongly encouraged to take a separate ballet dance class (preferably at The Studio!) to be able to understand and implement basic musical theatre choreography.

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Experience the wonderful world of Musical Theatre! For three wonderful hours daily for five days, immerse yourself in the three principle art forms that make up “Musical Theatre”! Start fresh each morning with a daily dance technique class beginning with an authentic ballet barre, move to floor stretches and exercises for flexibility, and finish with different dance styles in across-the-floor combinations. The next hour, sing your heart out with a group voice lessons and learn age-appropriate musical theatre songs straight from Broadway, along with choreography to compliment it and (if desired) opportunities for solo singing lines. Have a short 10 minute break to grab a snack, and then it’s on to a whirlwind improvisational acting class, where you have a blast using your own creative brain to make up your “who, what and where”!

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Offers an in-depth study of the art of acting, creating characters, and the study of human intentions & motivations. This class will concentrate on improvisational exercises, theatre games, beginning Meisner technique with listening/answering, the pinch and the ouch, repetition with activity, the knock at the door, etc. as well as sensory exercises, and possibly scene study, depending upon the interests of the students. This class develops “thinking on your feet”, improvising in any situation, public speaking, listening to others better, as well as understanding the behavior & unspoken intentions of people.

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Come and play for a fun-filled hour. Working in an ensemble, tap into a creativity you never knew you had. Create scenarios with others on the spot and free up your playful inner child!

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