Classes for The Coterie's Preteen Actors are built upon the natural imagination young actors have and introduce the fundamentals of acting, creating a base for future in-depth classes.
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Audition Lab is a great way to prepare for upcoming auditions! With the help of a professional teaching artist, students will choose audition monologues that match their age, personality, and individual audition needs. Students will prepare a monologue, develop successful strategies for cold readings, and learn how to create a professional resume. The class ends with an audition for class members interested in auditioning for the experience, as well as roles in The Coterie’s mainstage 2023-2024 season.
This class offers an opportunity for consideration in The Coterie’s Acting Master class.
Grades: 5th-7th
Locations: Midtown, Overland Park, Liberty, KCK
Sessions: Summer
What would happen if Mario became a Pokémon master? Or there was an epic battle between pirates and wizards? How about ballerinas and robots? This class gives you the opportunity to create zany adventures that combine genres, characters, and your favorite stories. Students will learn acting skills, improvisation, and devise their own dramatic scenes of silly crossovers.
Incoming Grades: 3rd-5th
Locations: Plaza, Overland Park, Midtown, Liberty
Sessions: 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 Harry and his friends go to classes, play Quidditch, and even battle He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. Immerse yourself in this exciting world all week and come out a full-fledged wizard.
Incoming Grades: 3rd-5th
Locations: Plaza, Overland Park, Midtown, Liberty, KCK
Sessions: Summer
Calling all time travelers! If you could go anywhere – to the past, to the future, or even to space –where would YOU go? We need help building our time machine and deciding where to travel. If you’re brave enough to be part of our team, join us to explore scenes and characters from various decades and eras, bringing to life days gone by and days yet to come. Are you up for the task?
Incoming Grades: 3rd-5th
Locations: Plaza, Overland Park, Liberty
Sessions: Summer
Get your funny started as you begin to learn all about comedy and improv! This fun and fast-paced class introduces young actors to the wide-open world of improv comedy. Students will develop skills in spontaneity, listening, creativity, storytelling, and collaboration as they explore their silly side!
Incoming Grades: 5th-7th
Locations: Plaza, Overland Park, Midtown, Liberty
Sessions: Summer
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*Registration for this class at our Plaza location will begin on April 17th through Pembroke Hill's summer programming site. To receive a reminder on the day it opens, contact Stephanie at slaaker@coterietheatre.org
If you like acting, singing, and dancing, then musical theatre is for you! In this class you will perform showstoppers from Broadway like The Prom, Legally Blonde, Hadestown, and more! Students will spend the week exploring character, learning choreography, and singing as an ensemble under the direction of an expert musical theatre actor and an accompanist. Students will perform as a chorus for family and friends during the final class.
Incoming Grades: 5th-10th
Locations: Plaza, Overland Park, Liberty
Sessions: Summer
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*Registration for this class at our Plaza location will begin on April 17th through Pembroke Hill's summer programming site. To receive a reminder on the day it opens, contact Stephanie at slaaker@coterietheatre.org
Let’s get on our feet and team up to write and perform a brand-new play in a week! This is a unique performance experience where students will get a chance to work with a professional playwright to create a new short play, and a professional director to rehearse the show in time to have a world premiere on Friday night! On Monday, students will be led through playwriting and character creation activities. Then our playwright will take your ideas and turn them into a script that you will rehearse all week and perform on Friday evening. Bring your creativity and join us for this fun and exciting challenge!
All students enrolled will have a speaking role—some large and some small.
Incoming Grades: 5th-10th
Sessions: Summer
Combining the stories of all the best Grimm Brothers fairytales, this award-winning musical will send you on an unexpected journey! Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and more set out to break the witch’s curse. Featuring the rich music of Stephen Sondheim, this show will be a fun challenge for all actors. Hop into a fairytale!
All students enrolled will have a speaking role—some large and some small. All students will also sing in the chorus and some will have solos. Auditions will be held the first day and the casting will be determined then.
Incoming Grades: 6th-12th
Locations: Plaza
Sessions: Summer
Click here for our health & safety protocol.
*Registration for this camp at our Plaza location will begin on April 17th through Pembroke Hill's summer programming site. To receive a reminder on the day it opens, contact Stephanie at slaaker@coterietheatre.org
