Elementary Actors

Kindergarten Through 4th Grade

Classes for The Coterie’s Elementary Actors explore the actor’s toolbox (body, voice, imagination) through structured activities led by seasoned teaching artists.


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Mole Rat Mania with Mo Willems

Grades K-1 at Overland Park

Grades K-2 at Midtown

Spring

Whether on the page or on the stage, Wilbur, the Naked Mole Rat, loves to dress up—you can too! In this class we’ll craft no-sew costume pieces to transform into characters like Pigeon, Squirrel, and Elephant and Piggie, as you explore the world and books of children’s author Mo Willems. Get ready to rock n’ “mole” while you sing songs from Mo Willems’ musical Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: A Rock Experience and bring your favorite Mo Willems’ books to life!

Invention Convention

Grades 2-4

Spring

Calling all inventors! It’s time to create what’s in your head like Rosie Revere or Phineas and Ferb do. Students will work together to create, build, and imagine the world’s next revolutionary inventions and act out scenes exploring what happens when you use your inventions. Bring your imagination and see what we can make.

Grades 4-6

Spring

Have you ever wanted to write your own scene or play? Well, here’s your chance! Create, collaborate, and perform your own ideas with your fellow thespians. Build an original work, scene by scene, that comes outta your head! Anything is possible!

Groovy Tales with Pete the Cat

Incoming Grades K-2

Summer

When troubles come his way, does Pete worry? Goodness, no! He just sings his song and keeps going. If you love Pete the Cat stories, you will love getting to create your own character as we read and act out the groovy situations from some of your favorite books. Join Pete the Cat and all his rocking friends in this class for brand new animal adventures!

Robots Rule the World!

Incoming Grades K-2

Summer

Beep boop…whirrrrrr…DING! It’s time to turn on our imagination machines to create hundreds of robots. We can make any kind of robot we want: huge, tiny, scary, friendly, or smart. Together we will make up our own robot stories and become our own robot characters.

Imaginary Friend Adventures

Incoming Grades K-2

Summer

Bring your imagination to life! Enter a world full of imaginary friends where anything can happen. Bring an old imaginary friend along or create a new one and together we will go on adventures as everything around us changes in the blink of an eye.

Summer Term at Hogwarts

Incoming Grades 3-5

Summer

Join all of your favorite characters from the Harry Potter series as you enter into a magical world filled with wizards, dragons, trolls, and elves. Act out scenes as Hogwarts students, go to classes, play Quidditch, and even battle evil wizards! Immerse yourself in this exciting world all week and come out a full-fledged wizard.

Percy Jackson & the Mythological

Incoming Grades 3-5

Summer

Battling a minotaur or a cyclops is no easy task, unless you’ve trained as a demigod! At Camp Half-Blood we’ll explore Greek mythology inspired by the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. Ready your shields to start your training!

A World of Pure Imagination

Incoming Grades 3-5

Summer

Grab your golden ticket and join us on an unimaginable journey. Explore a garden made completely of candy, get shrunk down to fit inside of a TV screen, or slurp a cup of Fizzy Lifting Drink and float away! Bring your most imaginative ideas while we create colorful scenes and characters together. Come along as we bring these magical ideas to life and visit music from The Coterie’s summer musical, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.