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SUM24 Performance Academy: Alice in Wonderland Grades 5-8

$285
Calendar Jun 3, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 5-8 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 3-7 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Audition, rehearse, and perform in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Go down the rabbit hole with Alice, attend an "unbirthday" party, and drink tea with the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit. Enrollment guarantees a part in the play. 

Full Course

SUM24 Making a Scene Grades 4-5

$175

with Maren Grant

Calendar Jun 5, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 4-5 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 5-7 · $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

Use scripts from popular plays to select scenes made for honing acting skills: voice, movement, memorization, character choices, and diction.

Full Course

SUM24 Theatre ABCs

$110

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 5, 2024 at 9:30 am, runs for 1 week

Kindergarten 2024-Grade 1 · 9:30-11:30 AM, June 5-7 · $100 Subscribers/$110 Non-Subscribers

A is for Actor, B is for Backstage, C is for Costumes…and D is for DRAMA! Every day there is an introduction to new elements, designed to launch a budding interest in theatre. At the end of the course, be ready to demonstrate for parents that T is for Talent, and maybe even S is for Star!

Full Course

SUM24 Scene Stealers

$110

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 5, 2024 at 1 pm, runs for 1 week

Grades 2-3 · 1:00-4:00 PM, June 5-7 · $100 Subscribers/$110 Non-Subscribers

Using favorite books, perform scenes in large and small groups. Have fun while working on beginning acting skills and ensemble building.

Full Course

SUM24 Page to Stage: Hansel and Gretel

$285

with Catie Miller

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 4-7, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 10-14  · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

One fairy tale. Five days. Needed: Young actors to bring this timeless story about cleverness, courage, and creativity to life. Help make the set, choose costumes, rehearse, then take the stage!

Full Course

SUM24 Sweet Life

$175

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 2-3· 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, June 10-14· $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

We’ll write and make commercials for our very own Willy Wonka candy inventions. We’ll also dramatize the “sweetest” stories, like The Ice Cream Machine, The Chocolate Touch, The Candy Dish, and more!

Full Course

SUM24 William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls

$285

with Nate Jorgensen

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 8-10, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 10-14 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

On Wednesdays we array ourselves in pink! Mean Girls gets an Elizabethan makeover in this totally fetch comedy about North Shore High’s queen bees and wannabes. Shakespeare didn’t pen this classic story of rivalries, betrayal, jealousy, obsession, and fastidious rule-making about when one can and cannot wear sweatpants, but he could have.

Full Course

SUM24 Cat Tales

$175

with Robin Fulton

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 1:30 pm, runs for 1 week

Kindergarten 2024-Grade 1· 1:30-3:30 PM, June 10-14· $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

Splat the Cat, Pete the Cat, Cat Kid. Everybody wants to be a cat! Join us for a week of fabulous felines, with cat stories, cat songs, and cat shenanigans. We’ll work on basic theatre concepts, while reinforcing literacy and cooperation skills. P.S. No dogs allowed!

Full Course




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