DCPA CHILD & TEEN ONLINE CLASSES

For eager students as young as three to high schoolers taking the first step towards a theatre career, our classes fuel creativity and reinforce the tools to help all skill levels improve and develop their craft.

WHY THEATRE EDUCATION?
It’s more than just acting. Our classes help form well-rounded, articulate, and empathetic individuals. Whether your student is just discovering their voice or is ready for master-level instruction, we have the perfect courses to help them grow and thrive. All of our sessions blend the fundamentals of acting while developing skills like critical thinking, language, and teamwork. Through their experiences in theatre, our students come to understand the importance of commitment, collaboration, grit, and revision.

WHY DCPA EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT?
We’re no strangers to teaching, engaging more than 144,000 students each year through on-site classes, in-school programs, student matinees, and Theatre for Young Audiences performances. Students learn first-hand from our professional teaching staff of national theatre leaders, who bring decades of professional experience to their classes and curriculum. All personnel undergo extensive training and have passed a background check by the Colorado Bureau of Investigations. Our faculty biographies are available online.

HOW ONLINE?
As DCPA Education and Community Engagement moves to online programming, we remain committed to each of our classes being facilitated ‘live’ rather than pre-recorded. This commitment maintains the bonds of student-teacher and the power of communal learning and peer-to-peer discovery. Classes will continue to empower up and doing, whole-body learning, movement, and theatricality.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE – Please email education@dcpa.org.

Kindergarten – 1st GradeMulti-Session Classes

K – 1st Grade Online Stages for Springtime Storybook Pages!

Spring has sprung! Join us for spring online theatrical play! Each session will spring alive using your body, voice, imagination, and arts and crafts to further grow the story and themes of a beloved or brand new to you springtime-themed storybooks. Delivered to your door, prior to our time together, are all the supplies necessary for the craft and puppet making. Get ready to bloom into fun and creative characters.

3 sessions • $90 (includes craft packet) • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • May 8 – 22 • 9:30-11am • Rachel Taylor

Kindergarten – 1st GradeMulti-Session Classes

K – 1st Grade Virtual Online! On The Page! Onstage!

Onward to discover a world of storybooks filled with illustrations and inspiration for creative dramatic play and storytelling through arts and crafts. Our time together will take you go from page to stage with your body, voice, imagination, and craft work! Delivered to your door, prior to the first session, are all the supplies necessary for the sessions’ arts and crafts. Get ready to create characters and jump into the story.

4 sessions • $90 (includes craft packet) • 1 hr class time
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

PreKKindergarten – 1st Grade2nd – 5th GradeOne-Time Workshops

PreK – 2nd Grade Story Time Saturdays

Have fun with stories! An invitation for our youngest actors to join in online pretend play that activates the imagination and emerging literacy skills! A delightful mix of story, craft, and whole body learning will open the pages of a storybook to discover the simplest joys of theatrical and creative play. Join us for one, two, or all four Saturdays!
1 session • $20 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Mar 20 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

Sat • Apr 17 • 9:30-10:30am • Emily Doherty

Sat • May 22 • 9:30-10:30am • Emily Doherty

Kindergarten – 1st GradeMulti-Session Classes

K – 1st Grade Staging Stories: Storybooks

Step into stories! Online and alive with theatrical play, these sessions will each be built around activating a beloved or brand new to your storybook. With opportunities for imagination, problem-solving, and creating characters these are sure to be four Saturday mornings rich with creativity. Delivered to your door, prior to our time together, are all the parts necessary for the craft and puppet making.

4 sessions • $90 (includes craft packet) • 1 hr class time
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

2nd – 3rd Grade Online Playhouse: Riddles and Rhymes and a Roaring Good Time!

Our online playhouse is moving and grooving in rhythm and rhyme. Theatrical hijinks with others, will guarantee a good time. You’ll be a poet – even when you don’t know it – as creative dramatic play and spoken rhyme fill your Saturday morning. Act with words, move with words, and maybe even sing some words in each of these word rich sessions.

3 sessions • $80 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • May 8 – 22 • 9:30-11am • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

2nd – 3rd Grade Online Playhouse: Who? Where? When? How?

Our online playhouse is filled with silly questions and their even sillier answers that invite you to be someone or someplace new, all from the comfort of your home! Each online class session centers on a creative dramatic question that put your answers in action: acting, moving, and even singing! Don’t miss this opportunity to create new characters and stories.

4 sessions • $80 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 9:30-10:30am • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

2nd – 3rd Grade Staging Stories: Fantastic Fairy Tales and Fables

Transform the page onto the stage! Online and alive with theatrical play, these sessions will each be built around activating beloved fairy tales and fables. With opportunities for imagination, problem-solving, and creating characters these are sure to be four Saturday mornings rich with creativity.

4 sessions • $80 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 9:30-10:30am • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

2nd – 5th GradeOne-Time Workshops

2nd – 5th Grade BFF Theatredaze

Gather your bestie to join in online creative dramatic play together! Your friendship will be the key to these improvisation and theatre exercises. Discover something new about each other and work together to celebrate the ways friendship and community make for great theatre!

1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one the two days listed)
Each registration is for two students – you and your BFF!
Sat • Feb 27 • 1 – 3pm
Rachel Taylor & Samuel Wood

Sat • May 22 • 1 – 3pm • Rachel Taylor & David Saphier

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

3rd – 5th Grade Musical Madness Live Online!

Sing loud and proud! Students start from scratch to create the story, lyrics, dance moves while producing an original online 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 their eager audience.

Please note: This is a production-based class that relies heavily on the creation of an ensemble. Therefore, attendance for each rehearsal is mandatory to ensure the success of the class as a whole.

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on May 15.

6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Apr 10 – May 15 • 1 – 3pm • Claudia Carson & Jill Schladweiler

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

4th – 5th Grade Characters from Comics & Cartoons!

Newspaper comic strips and animated cartoons have inspired the plots of many stage plays and musicals. This online class invites students to adapt and use beloved cartoons to create new characters and situations while building skills in improvisation, storytelling and ensemble work.

3 sessions • $80 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • May 8 – 22 • 10:30am- 12pm • Justin Walvoord

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

4th – 5th Grade Improv to the C.O.R.E

Throw inhibitions aside, build confidence and explore the fun and spontaneous world of improv. Using group activities, short-form games and improvised scene work, this class creates a supportive online environment for creative play and discovering how to make strong choices that further character and situation.

4 sessions • $80 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 11am – 12pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

4th – 5th Grade Improv to the C.O.R.E

Say yes and join the world of improv! These online sessions will build your C.O.R.E – that is, Character, Objective, Relationship, and Environment. These elements build the foundation of improvisational theatre. Jump in and play with ways improvisation can expand your creativity and challenge your imagination!

4 sessions • $80 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 11am- 12pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeMulti-Session Classes

Middle School Improv

(Choose one of the two days listed)

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • David Saphier
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 12 – 1:30pm

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • David Saphier
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 12 – 1:30pm

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeOne-Time Workshops

Middle School Improv: Short Form

Using ensemble work, exercises with two or three players, and solo exploration, this online workshop explores how improvisation storytelling is as diverse as the actors creating it. This online workshop provides you a solid foundation for knowing the power of yes and active listening as you work within improv’s structures and given circumstances.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • May 15 • 12 – 1:30pm • David Saphier

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeMulti-Session Classes

Middle School Acting Foundations

Develop a toolbox of acting essentials while exploring scene analysis, improvisation, working with objectives and learning key theatre vocabulary. This online class will set an understanding of core acting theory found in all of our higher-level courses.

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • David Saphier
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 10am – 11:30am

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • David Saphier
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 10 – 11:30am

3 sessions • $120 • 2 hr class time • David Saphier
Sat • May 8 – 22 • 9:30am – 11:30am

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeMulti-Session Classes

Middle School Acting Foundations II

After exploring the foundation of acting technique, apply your toolbox of skills with scene work and monologues. Learn how to create believable characters and examine advanced text while building confidence, creativity and communication skills.

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • Justin Walvoord
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 10 – 11:30am
PRE-REQUISITE: DCPA Education Summer programs or Middle School Acting Foundations.

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeMulti-Session Classes

Middle School Company: Musical Mash-up Spring Edition!

Using the songs and inspiration of Broadway to craft the next musical mash up of characters, stories, and songs, this class will challenge your creative genius and triple threat skills. Discover how musical theatre can be made online as your place becomes our space for creating a spring-based musical that is as original and as curious as you and your co-creating theatre makers. This class culminates in an online sharing of your work.

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on May 15.

6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Apr 10 – May 15 • 1 – 3pm • Rachel Taylor & Emily Doherty

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeHigh School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

Middle School & High School – Broadway Choreography: The Songs of Hamilton

Do not throw away your shot at moving to these iconic tunes. This is a class designed specifically for online learning and sharing of dance combinations inspired by the electric choreography of Hamilton. Join us for a fun and fast-paced class, beginning with a full body warm up and then moving into a sharp and energetic combo.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • May 1 • 1:30 – 3pm • Cedric Hall

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Broadway Choreography: The Prom

The Prom delighted theatre audiences on Broadway and, just when we needed it to, recently made its way to screens everywhere spreading the fun, insights, and messaging that is uniquely its own. The Prom evokes a sense of calling, an empowerment of self, and ways that only the musical form can mix comedy and drama. Looking specifically at how choreography can also add to this mix, this online master class, like the musical itself, celebrates diversity by announcing: It’s Time To Dance! This workshop is designed for movers of all kinds so Just Breathe and Zazz with us!

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • May 22 • 1:30 – 3pm • Piper Lindsay Arpan

High School 9th – 12th GradeMulti-Session Classes

High School Acting Technique

This online class will help you develop a toolbox of acting essentials and an understanding of core acting theory while exploring scene analysis, improvisation, working with objectives and learning key theatre vocabulary.

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • Samuel Wood

Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 10am – 11:30am

4 sessions • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • Samuel Wood
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 10 – 11:30am

3 sessions • $120 • 2 hr class time • Samuel Wood
Sat • May 8 – 22 • 9:30 – 11:30am

High School 9th – 12th GradeMulti-Session Classes

High School Teen Company: Broadway Springs into High School!

Setting a musical in high school is a more significant fixture of Broadway storytelling and song than you might realize. This spring, Teen Company packs up its backpacks, opens up its lockers, and suits up to take in and sing out from a diversity of musicals such as Dear Evan Hanson, Bye Bye Birdie, Mean Girls, Prom, West Side Story, Heathers, Grease, Hairspray and more.

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on May 15.

6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time

Sat • Apr 10 – May 15 • 1 – 3pm • Samuel Wood & Emily Doherty

Samuel Wood & Emily Doherty

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Acting on Camera Workshop

Do you have a burning desire to work in film and television, but are intimidated by being in front of the camera? Get ready to approach the work with the director calls action, “Action!” Learn to apply basic acting techniques to on-camera skills and build confidence in front of the camera.

(Choose one the two days listed)

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • Apr 17 • 1:30 – 3pm • Timothy McCracken

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeOne-Time Workshops

Middle School Master Class: Bard Wars Monologues

May the Fourth Be With You! Using monologues from the Shakespearean Star Wars collection, explore understanding iambic pentameter, working with objectives, techniques in preparing a monologues. Please be ready to work on a monologue that will be assigned at registration.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time
Tue • May 4 • 4-5:30pm • David Saphier

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeOne-Time Workshops

Middle School Acting on Camera Workshop

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time
Sat • Apr 24 • 1:30 – 3pm • Timothy McCracken

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Commercial Voice Over Workshop

Unlock your voice potential and explore the world of voice over! Step up to the mic and learn the basics of the radio and television voice-over industry. Join this virtual class – analyzing and activating commercial copy, learning to take direction, and increasing your versatility.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Tue • Feb 23 • 3:30-5pm • Justin Walvoord

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Voice Over Workshop: Character Voices (Video Games & Animation)

Expand your world of voice over. One voice, yours, holds the potential for an array of characters. In this virtual workshop discover tools to activate character and character choices for video games and animation to expand your voice-over range. Learn the tricks of the trade from a professional voice-over artist as you activate text and scenarios informed by the animation and gaming industries. This workshop is an ideal choice for those interested in focusing on how vocal choices create a character.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • Apr 24 • 1:30 – 3pm • Justin Walvoord

High School 9th – 12th GradeMulti-Session Classes

High School Audition Immersive

Take your audition to the next level! You’ve got the basics set: you’ve chosen a monologue and done your homework and now you’re ready to work with theatre professionals to make your work the best it can be. Your online session in the company of other actors will guide you through the ever-evolving skills and approaches for activating audition material including a full audition practice run! This master class is facilitated by a panel of theatre professionals, please have two monologues memorized and ready to be coached.

2 sessions • $80 • 1.5 hr class time
Thu • Mar 4 & 11 • 3:30-5pm • Rachel Taylor, Justin Walvoord, Allison Watrous, Samuel Wood

Instructor approval required. Inquire at education@dcpa.org.

High School 9th – 12th GradeMulti-Session Classes

High School Master Class

The Master Class is for actors that excel in their high school theatre departments and want additional specialized conservatory style training. We model our curriculum after the rigorous renowned collegiate acting programs. You’ll continue to hone acting choices, explore new playwrights and make connections and choices through advanced script analysis. For advanced acting students who are ready to take on a challenge, this online class fine tunes your acting process and approach to craft. This class has a prerequisite of instructor approval or audition via Zoom required.

(Choose one the three days listed)

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time • Allison Watrous
Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 10am – 12pm

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time • Allison Watrous
Sat • Apr 10 – May 1 • 10am – 12pm

3 sessions • $120 • 2 hr class time • Allison Watrous
Sat • May 8 – 22 • 10am – 12pm

PREREQUISITE: Instructor approval required. Inquire at education@dcpa.org.

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Improv: Meet Harold

Where short-form improvisation – the skits and bits of improv work – meets structured plot is the realm of Harold. The name suggests one person but the work is truly ensemble-based. This online master class will explain and explore the activation of created-in-the-moment scene work threaded together with the most popular of improvisation short form. The workshop promises a creative and dynamic workout while also giving you further insight into dramatic structure and timing – skills that are readily transferable to monologue and scene work.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • May 15 • 12 – 1:30pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Master Class: Uta Hagen

Uta Hagen was one of the foremost acting teachers of the 20^th century. A celebrated actress in her own right, and author of the seminal texts, Respect for Acting and A Challenge for the Actor. Hagen trained many of the outstanding actors of the American Stage and Screen and her studio in New York is still active today. Join DCPA Head of Acting, Timothy McCracken, to explore Hagen’s fundamental techniques: the Hagen Questions, exploration of objective and obstacle, the influence of given circumstances, and inner character development.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • May 8 • 1:30 – 3pm • Timothy McCracken

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School Master Class: Stella Adler

Stella Adler was an actress, teacher, and founder of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Adler’s studio employed her process centered on empowering and expanding an actor’s imagination. Within this virtual master class engage with the core principles of Adler’s work. These principals and their processes encourage actors to develop language and specificity for the circumstances of their characters. This workshop is an ideal choice for those interested in a focused exploration of Adler’s specifics for an actor’s technique.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • May 22 • 1:30 – 3pm • Samuel Wood

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K – 1st Grade Online Stages for Springtime Storybook Pages!

K – 1st Grade Virtual Online! On The Page! Onstage!

PreK – 2nd Grade Story Time Saturdays

K – 1st Grade Staging Stories: Storybooks

2nd – 3rd Grade Online Playhouse: Riddles and Rhymes and a Roaring Good Time!

2nd – 3rd Grade Online Playhouse: Who? Where? When? How?

2nd – 3rd Grade Staging Stories: Fantastic Fairy Tales and Fables

2nd – 5th Grade BFF Theatredaze

3rd – 5th Grade Musical Madness Live Online!

4th – 5th Grade Characters from Comics & Cartoons!

4th – 5th Grade Improv to the C.O.R.E

4th – 5th Grade Improv to the C.O.R.E

Middle School Improv

Middle School Improv: Short Form

Middle School Acting Foundations

Middle School Acting Foundations II

Middle School Company: Musical Mash-up Spring Edition!

Middle School & High School – Broadway Choreography: The Songs of Hamilton

High School Broadway Choreography: The Prom

High School Acting Technique

High School Teen Company: Broadway Springs into High School!

High School Acting on Camera Workshop

Middle School Master Class: Bard Wars Monologues

Middle School Acting on Camera Workshop

High School Commercial Voice Over Workshop

High School Voice Over Workshop: Character Voices (Video Games & Animation)

High School Audition Immersive

High School Master Class

High School Improv: Meet Harold

High School Master Class: Uta Hagen

High School Master Class: Stella Adler

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