Youth Outreach - Classes

About:

The Paramount and State Theatres offers summer and afterschool theatre classes that teaches life skills through theatre skills.  Our education department strives to provide the best theater training, helping each student to take their next step as an actor and as a person.

Classes:

Story-Book Drama (ages 4-6)

Step into your favorite stories as we use creative drama to bring them to life! Students are guided through dramatic activities that encourage self-expression, concentration, cooperation and discussion. This class emphasizes telling a story, creating dialogue, action and characters. Students will explore different stories each class, ending with a performance of their favorite!

 $250 (9 Week Class) | Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 | January 12, 2010 – March 9, 2010
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Creative Drama (ages 7-9)

Would you like to take an exciting adventure? In Creative Drama, your child will focus on imagining and acting in improvisational situations where they have to create characters, make critical and analytical decisions, and solve problems. Imagination, concentration and teamwork will be the keys to success in this exciting class as students set off on a new adventure each week!

$250 (9 Week Class) | Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 pm | January 13, 2009 – March 10, 2010
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Introduction to Acting (ages 10-12)

Introduce your pre-teen and young teen to the craft of acting. In this class, students will learn the basics of acting by playing theatre games, acting in scenes and monologues from film and stage, how to improvise, act, audition, and much more!

$250 (9 Week Class) | Tuesdays 4:30-5:30 pm | January 12, 2010 – March 9, 2010
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Nat Miller is currently the Education/Outreach director at the Paramount Theatre. He received his M.F.A in Drama and Theatre for Youth at The University of Texas at Austin. He received a B.F.A. in theatre studies from Southern Methodist University, ranked as one of the top ten theatre schools in the country. Nat was also certified to be a classroom instructor from the University of Whitewater-Wisconsin, which led to a job teaching Theatre and English in a public high school in Wisconsin. His professional experience in the field includes ten years of teaching a variety of drama classes for First Stage Children’s Theater, the second largest children’s theater in the country. Nat has also trained in Chicago in improvisation, and performs frequently in Austin.

Stacey Volland is currently working part time at the Paramount Theatre and writing a preschool theatre program for the Theatre Action Project. She received her BFA in Theater Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.  She was artistic director of the university’s theatre learning lab, UT Connections, where high school, undergraduate and graduate students worked together to devise original plays.  While living in Florida, Stacey started an after school musical theatre program.