Upcoming Online Classes
Explore our upcoming online classes.
Home School Musical: Part 1 Writing and Composing
Recommended for ages 10 and up
Wednesdays in December & January (8 weeks)
Time: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Home School Musical is a two-part youth theater program in which young performers and playwrights have the rare opportunity to create their dream role! Home School Musical, Part 1 involves the collaborative development and writing of a full length musical including lyrics, scenes and songs that is intended to be performed in a virtual environment. This is an 8-week course that takes place over Zoom and is led by Experiments in Theater director, Valerie Remillard and composer, Tim Girard. Participants will work together to establish characters, dialogue, songs, lyrics and a narrative arc. In between online class sessions, students and instructors will collaborate asynchronistically via a shared document. The full musical will be rehearsed and performed in a subsequent class, Part 2, which will take place immediately following Part 1, dates and times are to be determined. Participants in Home School Musical, Part 1 will assemble online once/week for 8 weeks on Wednesday, December 2, 9, 16, 23 and January 6, 13, 20, 27.
Drama Games Online
Recommended for ages 8 and up
Starts November 17 (6 weeks)
Time: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Actors of all levels enjoy and benefit from improvisation and drama games. Drama games allow young performers to experience the fun of acting without the stress of memorizing lines. In Drama Games Online, participants will practice theater skills like pantomime, improvisation and collaboration, learn about tactics, objective and authenticity and explore ways to work within the limitations of an online environment to express themselves. A final performance will take place online.