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.

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 three Saturdays!
1 session • $20 • 1 hr class time

Sat • Jan 9 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

Sat • Feb 13 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

Sat • Mar 20 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

Kindergarten – 1st GradeOne-Time Workshops

K – 1st Grade Zoom In On Masterpieces

Visually and kinesthetically explore styles and techniques of the Masters, not only with crayon and paint, but through the actor’s tools of body, voice, and imaginative play. Each online session takes a masterpiece of classic or contemporary visual art ‘off of the wall’ and theatricalizes it ‘on-screen’! 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 • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 9:30-10:30am • Rachel Taylor

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 Go Zoom Go

The books and charming characters of P. D. Eastman – Are You My Mother, Go Dog Go, Sam and the Firefly and others – are at the ready to fill these online class sessions. Dogs, cars, birds looking for their mothers, and Aaron the Alligator provide the basis for creative dramatic play and active storytime!

4 sessions • $80 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 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 an 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
Each registration is for two students – you and your BFF!
Sat • Feb 27 • 1 – 3pm
Rachel Taylor & Samuel Wood

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 an eager audience.

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on February 20.

6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 20 • 1 – 3pm

Justin Walvoord & Jill Schladweiler

2nd – 5th GradeOne-Time Workshops

4th – 5th Grade The Art of Auditioning

When you want to learn how to turn acting skills into a career, it’s all about the audition. This workshop will guide you toward preparing material for the big moment and provide you with strategies for taking control of your performance. Whether auditioning for productions at school, local theatres, or art schools, this workshop will get you prepared for the process. This workshop will be very hands-on; please be ready to work with a memorized monologue.
1 session • $40 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Dec 5 • 10am – 12pm • Justin Walvoord

2nd – 5th GradeMulti-Session Classes

4th – 5th Grade Pow! Bam! Zoom! Zip!

The power of theatrical language – with its roots in poetry and spoken word – combines with active and engaged physicality that invites your creative use of voice and body! These online sessions move and speak with the power of poets, playwrights, and your own experience. Be a cat or a jabberwocky or one of the frights and fools of Shakespeare . . . and so much more as you activate tongue twisters, riddles, and rhymes both famous and obscure!

4 sessions • $80 • 1 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 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 GradeOne-Time Workshops

Middle School The Art of Auditioning

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeMulti-Session Classes

Middle School Improv

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 • $120 • 1.5 hr class time • David Saphier

Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 12 – 1:30pm

Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 12 – 1:30pm

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 • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 10 – 11:30am

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

Middle School 6th – 8th GradeMulti-Session Classes

Middle School Company: Musical Mash-up

How can musical theatre be made online – don’t you need a stage? Your place becomes our space for creating a musical that is as original and as curious as you and your co-creating theatre-makers. 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. This class culminates in an online sharing of your work.

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on February 20.

6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 20 • 1 – 3pm

Rachel Taylor & Emily Doherty

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

Middle & High School Improv Extravaganza

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 environment for creative play that will help you discover how to make strong choices that further character and situation.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Sat • Feb 13• 10 – 11:30am• Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski & David Saphier

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 • Dec 5 • 1 – 2:30pm • Cedric Hall

High School 9th – 12th GradeMulti-Session Classes

High School Acting Technique

This online class will help students 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 • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 10 – 11:30am

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

High School 9th – 12th GradeMulti-Session Classes

High School Teen Company: Songs of Chicago

5.6.7.8! C’mon into the whoopee spot where the hearts are cold but the songs are hot! The hearts of the characters in Kander and Ebb’s world-renowned musical may be cold, ruthless, and selfish but you’ll join in a creative community, ensemble-based, process to create your own online theatrical exploration of this musical’s “all that jazz” songs and situations.

FAMILIES & FRIENDS: Please join us for a final online performance on February 20.

6 sessions • $240 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 20 • 1 – 3pm

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.

1 session • $40 • 1.5 hr class time

Thu • Feb 18 • 3:30-5pm • Timothy McCracken

High School 9th – 12th GradeOne-Time Workshops

High School The Art of Auditioning

When you want to learn how to turn acting skills into a career, it’s all about the audition. This workshop will guide you toward preparing material for the big moment and provide you with strategies for taking control of your performance. Whether auditioning for productions at school, local theatres, college or art schools, this workshop will get you prepared for the process. This workshop will be very hands-on; please be ready to work with a memorized monologue.
1 session • $40 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Dec 5 • 10am – 12pm • Samuel Wood

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 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 the craft. This class has a prerequisite of instructor approval or audition via Zoom required.

4 sessions • $ 160• 2 hr class time • Allison Watrous

Sat • Jan 16 – Feb 6 • 10am – 12pm
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Sat • Feb 20 – Mar 13 • 10am – 12pm
Instructor approval required. Inquire at education@dcpa.org.

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PreK – 2nd Grade Story Time Saturdays

K – 1st Grade Zoom In On Masterpieces

K – 1st Grade Staging Stories: Storybooks

2nd – 3rd Grade Go Zoom Go

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 The Art of Auditioning

4th – 5th Grade Pow! Bam! Zoom! Zip!

4th – 5th Grade Improv to the C.O.R.E

Middle School The Art of Auditioning

Middle School Improv

Middle School Acting Foundations

Middle School Company: Musical Mash-up

Middle & High School Improv Extravaganza

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

High School Acting Technique

High School Teen Company: Songs of Chicago

High School Acting on Camera Workshop

High School The Art of Auditioning

High School Commercial Voice Over Workshop

High School Audition Immersive

High School Master Class

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