CHILD CLASSES WINTER 2025

Jump into Ellen Walsh’s creative books and explore, alongside some favorite animal characters, the world of colors, shapes, and numbers. “Orange” you glad we asked, so that you can join in the fun with Mouse Paint, Dot & Jabber, Hop Jump, and other award-winning books brought to life through theatre games and activities. Performers must have turned 4 by the first class and be potty-trained.
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Michaela Murray and Xochitl Portillo
9am – 9:45am • $145

Jump into Ellen Walsh’s creative books and explore, alongside some favorite animal characters, the world of colors, shapes, and numbers. “Orange” you glad we asked, so that you can join in the fun with Mouse Paint, Dot & Jabber, Hop Jump, and other award-winning books brought to life through theatre games and activities. Performers must have turned 4 by the first class and be potty-trained.
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Michaela Murray and Xochitl Portillo
10am – 10:45am • $145

Celebrate you! Developing self-esteem and empowering empathy are two of the many personal skills nurtured by theatre and creative dramatic play. Adelaide’s Secret World, Noticing, Rocket Says Speak Up, and I Lived Inside a Whale, are among the array of classic and soon-to-be classic stories that celebrate a sense of self and what it is to belong.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Jill Schladweiler and Rachel Taylor
9am – 10am • $165

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Celebrate you! Developing self-esteem and empowering empathy are two of the many personal skills nurtured by theatre and creative dramatic play. Adelaide’s Secret World, Noticing, Rocket Says Speak Up, and I Lived Inside a Whale, are among the array of classic and soon-to-be classic stories that celebrate a sense of self and what it is to belong.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Jill Schladweiler and Rachel Taylor
10:15am – 11:15am • $165

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Celebrate you! Developing self-esteem and empowering empathy are two of the many personal skills nurtured by theatre and creative dramatic play. Adelaide’s Secret World, Noticing, Rocket Says Speak Up, and I Lived Inside a Whale, are among the array of classic and soon-to-be classic stories that celebrate a sense of self and what it is to belong.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Jill Schladweiler and Rachel Taylor
11:30am – 12:30pm • $165

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Step into famous tales! Hans Christian Andersen and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm created and collected stories beloved by generations of children and families. This class brings them to life through improvisation, character creation, and scene work. Tom Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hansel and Gretel are the well known stories this class will explore.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Justin Walvoord
9:45am – 0:45am • $165

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Step into famous tales! Hans Christian Andersen and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm created and collected stories beloved by generations of children and families. This class brings them to life through improvisation, character creation, and scene work. Tom Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hansel and Gretel are the well known stories this class will explore.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Justin Walvoord
11am – 12pm • $165

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

In this DCPA Signature class, students will create a “one of a kind” mini musical using adventure packed Broadway favorites, such as Shrek, Pippin, Les Misérables, and Matilda, to inspire their own original story of adventure, friendship and overcoming all odds. Students will bring to life their own musical as they strengthen and grow their acting and singing technique. Each student will leave the class with the satisfaction of creating an entire mini musical to share with an eager audience.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Kate Polling and Gavin Juckette
9:15 – 10:45am • $235

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Step into the Old West while singing and dancing in a student created musical, based on iconic Broadway shows such as Oklahoma, Annie Get Your Gun, Paint Your Wagon, The Robber Bridegroom, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! In this DCPA signature class, students grow their acting and singing skills as they create the story, lyrics and choreography for a never before seen musical. As they use their acting skills to transform their ideas, each student will leave the class with the satisfaction of creating an entire mini musical to share with an eager audience.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Antigone Biddle and Courtney Esser
11am – 12:30pm • $235

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

Join us for the hilarity and fun of improvised sketch comedy. Think Animaniacs or The Aquabats! Super Show! Working collaboratively with new friends and future comedians, create your own amusing scenes or vignettes to perform in front of a live audience. This class will explore improv techniques to strengthen your storytelling and acting skills, infusing your winter weekends with laughter and friendship.

Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Heather Curran
9:45 – 10:45am • $165

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class sharing on March 15th.

In this class, you have the opportunity to collaborate with a working professional performer to develop your toolbox of acting essentials while exploring scene analysis, improvisation, and character objectives. Informed by college-level curriculum, in this course you will engage with the foundations of character development and performance in a challenging yet non-competitive and supportive learning environment.
Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • David Saphier
9:30am – 11am • $235

Take the Stage! This class moves the process of discovering the power of improvisation in game and short form structures from the classroom studio to center stage! Class sessions will focus on the developing, preparing, and rehearsing of an improv showcase while exploring the world of YES. The showcase format assures that your strengths and interests as a performer are featured while also providing insightful challenges for growing your personal technique and ensemble skills. Don’t miss out on this dynamic performance opportunity!
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class showcase on March 15th.
Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Heather Curran
11:30am – 1pm • $235

Grow your acting technique through the process of scene work. This class is a unique opportunity to move from improvisation work to scripted text. Focusing on play titles specific to the experiences of young people, this class will develop students’ abilities to analyze text and connect the words of a playwright to choices of emotion, relationship, and dramatic action. The class will require outside work in play reading and memorization, but rehearsals will take place during class sessions.
Prerequisite: Middle School Acting Technique OR any DCPA Middle School Summer classes.
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class showcase on March 15th.
Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Alex Campbell
9:30am – 11am • $235

Teen Company is back by popular demand! Teen company provides a fun-filled class focused on performing selections from Broadway Musicals in your very own original show! For our Winter session, it’s all about teens in musicals! Join us as we explore The Prom, Mean Girls, Dear Evan Hansen, and many more. Grow your acting, singing, and dancing technique as you tackle iconic Broadway songs that explore what it means to be a teen performer that is a true triple threat!
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class showcase on March 15th.
Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Brian Bohlender & Lyndsay Dru Corbett
1:30pm – 4:30pm • $435

In this class, you have the opportunity to collaborate with a working professional performer to develop your toolbox of acting essentials while exploring scene analysis, improvisation, and character objectives. Informed by college-level curriculum, in this course you will engage with the foundations of character development and performance in a challenging yet non-competitive and supportive learning environment.
Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • David Saphier
11:30am – 1pm • $235

How may improvisation continue to inform, develop, and shape your work as an actor? This workshop moves beyond games-for-games sake and into deeper opportunities to ignite your presence, activate your entire body, tap into your instincts, and drop into the moment. Using improvised scene work, discover how to move beyond middle ground choices and into the heights of bolder ones that empower your team members on stage while sharpening your personal technique.
Sat • Jan 18 – Feb 8
4 weeks • Heather Curran
1:30pm – 3:00pm • $145

At their best, music videos are mini movies that visually capture the emotional context of a song and can even expand on the song’s lyrics. In this hands-on class, you’ll explore the tools, skills, and strategies to produce a music video that tells the story of a song in a compelling way while utilizing your dancing and singing talents.

Sat • Jan 18 – Feb 8
4 weeks • Lyndsay Dru Corbett
11:30am – 1pm • $145

In this interactive class we will discover the tools of voice acting and create unique voice-over characters for animation, video games, storytelling, YouTube, and podcasts. While voice-over may appear to be a solitary skill, it rests in the traditions of theatre’s structures, skills, and tools.
Sat • Jan 18 – Feb 8
4 weeks • Justin Walvoord
1:30pm – 3:00pm • $145

Teen Company programming is back by popular demand! Teen Company will focus on performing selections from Broadway’s smash hit, the newly released Hadestown: Teen Edition! This blockbuster show will challenge your acting, singing, and dancing technique. Meet new friends as you take on this exciting, fun, and new challenge!
FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a class showcase on March 15th.
Sat • Jan 18 – Mar 15 (no class Mar 1)
8 weeks • Gavin Juckett and Sam Wood
1:30pm – 4:30pm • $435