CHILD CLASSES WINTER 2025

Turn the world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes inside out with these zany bestselling authors: Judy Sierra, Keith Grave, Mark Kimball Moulton, Riel Nason. Their creative and wacky books sparks the imagination with silly new poems and stories about lonely ghosts, playful zombies, friendly witches, and of course tap-dancing monsters. Each session is packed with fun theatrical activities and crafts designed to encourage creative play and explore self-expression; grounded in the themes of friendship, self-empowerment, and kindness. The session also includes delightfully spooky hijinks around the Halloween holiday!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $190 • 1hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 9:30-10:30am
Jill Schladweiler & Rachel Kae Taylor

Turn the world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes inside out with these zany bestselling authors: Judy Sierra, Keith Grave, Mark Kimball Moulton, Riel Nason. Their creative and wacky books sparks the imagination with silly new poems and stories about lonely ghosts, playful zombies, friendly witches, and of course tap-dancing monsters. Each session is packed with fun theatrical activities and crafts designed to encourage creative play and explore self-expression; grounded in the themes of friendship, self-empowerment, and kindness. The session also includes delightfully spooky hijinks around the Halloween holiday!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $190 • 1hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 11am-12pm
Jill Schladweiler & Rachel Kae Taylor

Turn the world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes inside out with these zany bestselling authors: Judy Sierra, Keith Grave, Mark Kimball Moulton, Riel Nason. Their creative and wacky books sparks the imagination with silly new poems and stories about lonely ghosts, playful zombies, friendly witches, and of course tap-dancing monsters. Each session is packed with fun theatrical activities and crafts designed to encourage creative play and explore self-expression; grounded in the themes of friendship, self-empowerment, and kindness. The session also includes delightfully spooky hijinks around the Halloween holiday!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $190 • 1hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 12:30-1:30pm
Jill Schladweiler & Rachel Kae Taylor

Imagine a play that combines the excitement of video games with the amazing stories of graphic novels! This fall, join new friends to create an original play using the Super Rabbit Boy graphic novels as inspiration. Explore devising story, creating character, and improvisation techniques while putting together a unique story that will be performed for friends and family. Will the video game heroes conquer the villains? What will happen if the human gamers lose each level within the game? Will it be game over for the superheroes or will they level up? Imagination and creativity are needed to save the day!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $190 • 1hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 9:45-10:45am •
Kate Poling & Madelyn Smith

Imagine a play that combines the excitement of video games with the amazing stories of graphic novels! This fall, join new friends to create an original play using the Super Rabbit Boy graphic novels as inspiration. Explore devising story, creating character, and improvisation techniques while putting together a unique story that will be performed for friends and family. Will the video game heroes conquer the villains? What will happen if the human gamers lose each level within the game? Will it be game over for the superheroes or will they level up? Imagination and creativity are needed to save the day!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $190 • 1hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 11am-12pm •
Kate Poling & Madelyn Smith

Sing loud and dance proudly in one of the DCPA’s signature class offerings! Begin from nothing and create a story, choreography, and lyrics for an original mini-musical. Working with Broadway musicals inspired by cartoons and comic strips such as SpongeBob Square Pants, Annie, The Addams Family, Spider-Man, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, strengthen acting, singing and choreography skills and techniques. All of the session’s hard work culminates in a Saturday morning theatrical celebration shared with family friends. ‘Holy Krabby Patties.’ Don’t miss out!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $270 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 9:15-10:45am •
Rya Dyes & Gavin Juckette

Using Broadway musicals set in schools for inspiration, create, write, and choreograph an original min-musical. Be a part of what happens when the classic songs from School of Rock, The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee, Grease, and Bring It On come together to create a new musical that moves out of the classroom and into… well, it has yet to be written and staged, but be assured that whatever musical is developed, it will raise the roof with the four R’s: Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rock and Roll!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $270 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 11am-12:30pm •
Rya Dyes & Gavin Juckette

Say yes and activate your spontaneity! Dive into the tenants of improv and trust your creativity, imagination, and the power of yes! Learn to activate your C.O.R.E. – Character, Objective, Relationship, and Environment to strengthen every improv scene. Each week, explore improv tools and skills that are designed to support personal expression, collaboration, and creative storytelling. Meet new friends and discover the laughter, joy and just plain fun of performing improv!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $270 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 9:30-11am •
Lyndsay Dru Corbett

Step into the Sherwood Forest with an adventure about an heroic outlaw who fights with all his heart against injustice and tyranny. Using a variety of source materials, this clever script will spark young artists to explore themes of strength and confidence while discovering the real mettle of a hero: wit, humor, and heart. This interactive performance class will provide opportunities to grow and strengthen acting skills through creating characters and movement as fundamental elements of storytelling and performance. Actors must be able to attend all rehearsals and the final performance. Audition preparation is not necessary, as auditions will be done as part of the first days of the program with a speaking role guaranteed with registration.

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $500 • 3 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 1:30-4:30pm •
David Saphier

Take to the stage and develop a toolbox of acting skills, tools, and strategies, while exploring solo and partner work. Engage your creativity and imagination with activities including: improvisation, working with objectives and learning key theatre vocabulary. You will have the opportunity to strengthen your dramatic and comedic acting muscles while unlocking the power of a monologue. This fun and interactive class will set an understanding of core acting theory found in all of our higher-level courses.

8 sessions • $270 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 9:30-11am • David Saphier

Join us for the hilarity of improv and sketch comedy. This class puts improvisation center stage! Don’t miss the opportunity to develop characters and comedic situations in scripted vignettes and scenes. Throw inhibitions aside, build confidence and explore the fun and spontaneous world of improv. Class sessions will focus on developing, preparing, and rehearsing an improv showcase of scripted and unscripted work while exploring the world of YES!

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $270 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 11:30am-1pm• Heather Curran

Start spreading the news! With the DCPA’s 2025/26 season including Hell’s Kitchen, a new musical from 17-time Grammy® Award winner Alicia Keys, our popular Teen Company will tackle Broadway musicals that capture the vibrant energy of New York City. Exploring the iconic musicals New York, New York, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, 42nd Street and Hell’s Kitchen, hone your triple-threat skills — acting, singing, and dancing. “Hear the beat of dancing feet!”

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $500 • 3 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 1:30-4:30pm •
Gavin Juckette & Lyndsay Dru Corbett

Take your theatricl storytelling to a new level. Stage combat is an essential storytelling element for any script filled with action and adventure. The skills learned in this interactive workshop will help you create compelling theatrical hand to hand fights that create the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the performers. This stage combat workshop is for performers of all experience levels requiring active listening, focus, commitment to safety, and passion for physical storytelling.

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on October 11.

4 sessions • $170 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Oct 11 • 2-3:30pm •
Sam Wood

Step up to the mic and discover how many ways your voice can be used to convey a sense of character, story, and event. Voice acting in video games involves providing vocal performances for characters, narrators, and other audio elements within a game. In this two-day workshop, learn skills, tools, and strategies to adapt your voice, deliver dialogue, and convey emotions to create immersive and memorable gaming experiences.

2 sessions • $95 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Oct 11 & 18 • 11am-12:30pm •
Justin Walvoord

Develop a toolbox of acting essentials while exploring scene analysis, improvisation, working with objectives, and learning key theatre vocabulary. This class is informed by college-level curriculum availing students the opportunity to engage with foundations of character development and performance in a challenging yet non-competitive and supportive learning environment.

8 sessions • $270 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 11:30am-1pm•
Lyndsay Dru Corbett

Take the stage and turn up your confidence in this advanced improv showcase while doing a deep dive into your comedy and improv skills. This audition-based class will explore comic timing by learning how to balance heart and wit to create engaging, empathetic, and memorable narratives. If you are accepted into this course you will move beyond basic techniques and delve into deeper levels of performance and character work through more complex long-form improv formats such as:

• Harold: a long-form structure that explores and interweaves patterns, themes, and group ideas and discovery using the structure of an opening, three rounds of scenes, and group games.
• Armando: a monologue deconstruction long-form improv structure in which real-life stories from a person inspire improvised scene work.
• The Pretty Flower: a long-form structure that begins and continually returns to a central monoscene with fast-paced edits that branch out to explore funny ideas in connected scenes.

This course is limited to 16 students. To appl y,you must be enrolled in high school and have completed the 9th grade.
To apply, please submit:

• One letter of recommendation
• Current resume
• Current photograph
• Student’s letter of interest

Email to education@dcpa.org OR mail to Denver Center for the Performing Arts Education, Attn: Advance Improv Showcase, 1101 13th St., Denver, CO 80204
Deadline: August 23, 2025
Invited Auditions will be Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 1-3pm

Families & Friends: Please join us for a class sharing on November 8.

8 sessions • $500 • 3 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Nov 8 • 1:30-4:30pm •
Heather Curran

To spellbind gamers and fully immerse them in the incredible world of a video game, a story needs to be told that let’s them understand the world they are now entering is like nothing else. The game’s characters, their special abilities and personalities must be supported by their voice, and at the same time, it is important to encapsulate the game’s universe and style. In this two-day workshop, learn skills, tools, and strategies to adapt your voice, deliver dialogue, and convey emotions to create immersive and memorable gaming experiences.

2 sessions • $95 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Nov 1 & 8 • 11am-12:30pm •
Justin Walvoord

Ready to take your acting to the next level? Interested in strengthening your craft? This 4-week session, facilitated by Allison Watrous, DCPA Executive Director of Education, is designed for the dedicated and passionate high school student who is looking for challenging and thoughtful training to fine tune technique and specificity while exploring a variety of approaches and methods. This advanced acting class promises to be a challenging and rewarding conservatory-style actor training experience. Deepen your work! Don’t miss this excellent opportunity for college acting program preparation and taking your artistry to the next level! This course requires either an invitation or an audition to register. Space is limited; connect today! education@dcpa.org.

4 sessions • $170 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Sep 20 – Oct 11 • 9:30-11am • Allison Watrous