Acting

Listen. Learn. Imagine. Perform. Acting Class. They call it a Play for a reason! Participants are exposed to theater games and exercises designed to free their imaginations, build self-confidence in front of an audience, and encourage collaborative play with peers. Additionally, students will create characters and dive into scenes! Through the exploration of a variety of character development and scene study and construction methods, participants begin to build an actor’s “Toolbox” in this class. 

Design

A play's lights, sound, set, costumes and other design elements can tell as much a story as the script and the actors. Design for theater Workshop will give students the chance to look at how to develop a play from this vital perspective. Students will have the opportunity to design elements of a short play and creating the visual world, through vision boards, models and sketching.

Directing

Directing is more than just telling people where to go on stage. It is creating pictures that tell a story, guiding an audience, and bring out a play's meaning. It is exploring possibilities. Directing is an art. You'll learn that here.

Fairy Tale Theater

An artistic space for the littlest theater artists with the biggest imaginations. Using our bodies, our voices and our imaginations, Pre-K 3 through K students, act out existing stories, make up their own, and dress up in a variety of costumes.

High School Theater Experience

Sunday Theater Experience for HS Aged. The High school theater program meets on Sundays for two hours. Each week one hour is devoted to an acting class. The second hour will rotate between improv, movement, playwrighting, sketch comedy, voice over acting, and more

Improvisation

This class is all about FUN! In our class, we will be exploring our “INNER SILLY” through the magic of Improv. What is Improv? Well, it’s creating something on stage using nothing more than an idea or suggestion, and your very own imagination. Building scenes and /or stories with other players, on the spot, right off the tops of your heads! Sound scary? Think it’s impossible? Guess what? You improvise every day! When you have a conversation with someone, it’s not scripted. You may have an idea of what you would like to talk about, but you never know exactly what you’re going to say or how the other person will respond. THAT”S IMPROV! 

Musical Theater

Listen. Learn. Imagine. Sing. Perform. Participants learn traditional musical numbers, how to tell a story through song, choreography and acting skills, culminating in a presentation of their work.

Playwriting

The thought of writing a play can be scary. How do you start? What do you do once you have an idea? We wish we could say that there is some secret formula to writing a play, but things aren’t that easy. There are, however, techniques that can start you on your way to discovering what it means to create a play. We will use character development as a starting point, and basic “want, conflict, change” structure to learn through experience the process of writing a play. Over the course of 8 weeks, each student will develop many beginnings, and ultimately one ending in a short play. Students will learn to give and receive constructive feedback, support each other, and reflect on their own work. At the end of the day, the only real way to learn how to write a play is to write one (or two, or ten). And that’s what we’ll do here. The culmination is an evening of readings of the students' plays performed by Theater O faculty and other professional actors. 

Puppetry

Chances are when you think of puppets you think of Sesame Street and The Muppets. These foam puppets and the manipulation undoubtedly works of art, but they are also the tip of the iceberg. In Puppetry Workshop students will work with traditional puppets as well as found objects to create characters that interact in worlds created by the students. Basic manipulation techniques will be explored as students work to complete a finished theater piece