Fall 2024 Classes

Creative Drama 1

Pre-K-1
Saturday
11:15 – 12:15
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Samantha Walker
Tuition: $180

In our creative movement class, we encourage our youngest students to explore the environment through guided play and the use of the imagination. Children learn to value self-expression through rhythm, games to develop coordination, sequencing exercises, pantomime, visual art, storybooks, songs, and dances. Class will end with a final demonstration. Great add-on to Sing, Sing, Sing class.

Creative Drama 2

Grades 2-4
Saturday
9:30 -11
Location: Theater
Instructor: Emily Murray
Tuition: $240

This class begins the exciting journey of the budding actor. Children experience developmentally appropriate theatre games and dramatizations of stories that build skills, spark imagination, nurture creativity, and inspire empathy. The class also focuses on enhancing students’ communication skills and self-confidence. Young people are encouraged to repeat Creative Drama workshops within their age range, as each class increases understanding while using new material. Class will end with a final demonstration. This is a great add on to Broadway Kids Junior for a full theatrical immersion.

Creative Drama 3

Grades 5-7
Saturday
9:30 – 11
Location: Theater
Instructor: Anthony Teixeira
Tuition: $240

This class enhances theatre skills through carefully crafted exercises and dramatizing stories and short plays. Students focus on character development using improvisation and script work to develop their craft. Actors are encouraged to repeat their participation in Creative Drama workshops within their age range as each class deepens understanding while introducing new material. Class will end with a final demonstration. This is a great add on to Broadway Kids for a full theatrical immersion!

Sing, Sing, Sing!

Pre-K – 1
Saturday
10:00 – 11:00
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Paige Neal
Tuition: $180

In this class students are encouraged to have fun while learning the components of singing. We will explore music and creative expression through movement, dramatic play, and song. Great add on to Creative Drama 1.

Broadway Kids Junior

Grades 2-4
Saturday
11:15 – 12:15
Location: Theatre
Instructor: Chelsey Brown
Tuition: $180

Sing, Dance, Act, and DO – all at the same time? Love to act but do your knees turn to jelly during a singing audition? In this class, have fun bringing to songs what you already know about acting. You learn range, diction, pitch, and more to help you sing with expression and confidence. Discover how to move to the beat and the words to bring the song alive.

Broadway Kids

Grades 5-7
Saturday
11:15 – 12:15
Location: Theatre
Instructor: Bob Wilder & Suzette Hutchinson
Tuition: $180

Sing, Dance, Act, and DO – all at the same time? Love to act but do your knees turn to jelly during a singing audition? In this class, have fun bringing to songs what you already know about acting. You learn range, diction, pitch, and more to help you sing with expression and confidence. Discover how to move to the beat and the words to bring the song alive.

Teen Acting

Grades 8 & up
Saturday
12:30-2
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Anthony Teixeira
Tuition: $240

Unleash your dramatic side in TEEN ACTING! Students will build upon the foundational skills they learn in creative drama to take their acting to the next level. This class will include topics such as scene work, audition techniques, text analysis, improvisation, and voice & movement, among others. The class will culminate in a performance of both scripted and original material. Spark your creativity and ignite your talent!

Teen Smartphone Filmmaking

Grade 8 & up
Saturday
10-12
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Claude Kerven
Tuition: $240

Learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling and start applying it today. In this workshop, you will learn how to make a short film relying only on a smartphone and your own imagination. No filmmaking experience is required. Sophisticated equipment, special effects, advanced editing software, and big budgets are not necessary to tell a great story. With nothing more than a cell phone and your own creativity, you can touch people and move them in profound and meaningful ways. Who Is This Course For? This course is for anyone. Whether filmmaking is your passion, your hobby or just something you’ve always wanted to try, Smartphone Filmmaking will demystify the process of telling stories visually and help you translate your ideas into expressive and eloquent images. Final class will conclude with a screening for friends and family.

Comedy Improv for Adults

Ages 18 and up
Tuesday
6:15-8:15
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Mike Devine
Tuition: $240

Have you ever watched an improv show and envisioned yourself as a performer? Or perhaps you’re an actor looking for a creative outlet? Whatever your reason may be, this is the place for you. Join us each week as we embark on a journey full of games and exercises that’ll take you through the basics of improv such as taking risks, being present, and learning lifelong skills that can be used on and off stage – all while sharing a lot of laughs together! No previous experience required, only an open mind and a willingness to say ‘Yes!”

Adult Scene Study (8 weeks)

Ages 18 and up
Monday
6:15-8:15
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Nina Schuessler
Tuition: $190 (8 Weeks)

This is the class for you! Over 8 weeks, you will work in pairs and individually on scripted material. You will challenge yourself, find your groove and deepen your strengths while discovering new and inspiring insights into your process.

Tap for Beginners KIDS!

Ages 7 – 11
Thursday
4:30-5:30
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Oharra Avis
Tuition: $180

This children’s beginner class focuses on the fundamentals of Tap. Students will learn technique, rhythms, patterns, combinations and routines set to music. It also focuses on the development of coordination, concentration, listening skills and develops confidence in form and technique. The class schedule is offered in a three season commitment, fall classes focus on building technique and the winter and spring will be rehearsing choreography for the Spring recital. This is a performance class and Tap shoes are required for participation.

Tap for Beginners for Adults & Teens! (13 Weeks)

Ages 12- 112
Tuesday
5:15-6:15
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Terry Norgeot
Tuition: $234

This beginner class focuses on the fundamentals of Tap. Students put beginning technique to work, learning new steps, rhythms, patterns and combinations. It also focuses on the development of coordination, concentration, listening skills and develops confidence in form and technique.

Tap 4 (13 Weeks)

Ages 12-18
Wednesday
4:00-5:00
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Terry Norgeot
Tuition: $234

This class continues to focus on the fundamentals of Tap. Students put beginning technique to work, learning new steps, rhythms, patterns and combinations. It also focuses on the development of coordination, concentration, listening skills, and self confidence. The class schedule is offered in a three season commitment, fall classes focus on building technique and the winter and spring will be rehearsing choreography for the Spring recital.

Adult/Teen Tap (13 Weeks)

Ages 18- 118
Wednesday
5:15-6:15
Location: Arts Center
Instructor: Terry Norgeot
Tuition: $234

2-3 years of prior tap experience. Includes an introduction to proper barre warm-ups and stretches for the body, combined with across the floor progressions and mini combinations. The class will concentrate on building confidence through mastering more difficult patterns and steps.

Fantasy & Theatrical Makeup

Ages 8-Adult
Saturday October 19
12:30-3:30
Tuition: $150
Instructor: James P. Byrne

Learn the foundations of creating professional theatrical makeup just in time for Halloween! Students will master shadowing and highlighting techniques. Explore animals, pirates, scares, spooky characters and more. Each student will be provided with a basic theatrical makeup pallet, including brushes, and sponges, highlighter, and color.

Lighting Workshop

Ages 13 – Adult
Saturday Nov 16 & 23, 12:30- 2:30
Wednesday Dec 4, 6:30-8:45
Tuition: $150
Instructor: Matt Kohler

An introduction to the theoretical knowledge of how you look at lighting from a LD’s perspective going into a production, and the practical lighting technician’s hands-on knowledge of hanging/focusing/patching instruments for a specific show. (Wed Dec 4th is the final dress rehearsal for A Christmas Carol. The time is approximately 6:30-8:45 depending on the run time of the show)

Day 1: Part one, Role of LD, what a LD does and how they go about achieving lighting looks and the visual world of the story we’re telling on stage. Part two: Then hands-on learning in functionalities of lighting equipment.

Day 2: skill-building and application: Hands on learning: hanging, focusing, patching lighting equipment. Then actually creating the different cues and scenes of the play itself.

Day 3: Assess Attend final dress rehearsal of A Christmas Carol. Brief meeting before the rehearsal to review what we’ve learned so far and what to look for on the stage. Post-rehearsal, brief discussion of the lighting design and techniques used for this particular production.