Our spring break intensive workshops provide students with an in-depth exploration into a topic of their choosing. Each full-day workshop is designed to build community, create new work, and find new ways to discuss their artistic process. Each session will culminate in a work-in-progress sharing for friends, families, and staff.
Need-based scholarships are available upon request. Please email us at education@philatheatreco.org for more information.
MUSICAL THEATRE SONGWRITING
7th – 12th Grade
Teaching Artist: Allison Tartalia
April 15th, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Every new musical starts from an idea-whether a book, a movie, or a simple melody. From there, characters, a story, and a world are built. In this intensive, you will explore the process of writing an original song and scene for a new musical theatre show, culminating in a work-in-progress showing. Recommended for singers, songwriters, and students who can sing, play, and write lyrics.
Cost: $75
MUSICAL THEATRE REVUE
7th – 12th Grade
Teaching Artist: Hannah Catanoso
April 16th, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Every singer and performer has their own unique story to tell and often use cabaret performance to connect with their audiences. In this intensive, you’ll explore your own personal story with acoustic performance. You’ll get techniques for choosing songs that have meaning, analyzing song lyrics to create meaningful performances, and monologue writing to help communicate your story, your way. Recommended for singers, songwriters, and those who can do both.
Cost: $75
CIRCUS THEATRE
7th – 12th Grade
Teaching Artist: Adam Kerbel (Almanac Dance Circus)
April 17th, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
What can we do together that we can’t do alone? AcroAction
is an energetic, one-day theater intensive led by the internationally acclaimed,
Philadelphia-based company, Almanac. Students will learn the fundamentals of partner acrobatics and movement-based storytelling as a language to create original new performances. By the end of the day, you’ll perform your creations at a works-in-progress showing for invited friends, family, and Philly theater professionals. This hands-on learning experience equips students with new tools to express themselves fully.
Cost: $75
ACTING WORKSHOP: CHARACTER STUDY
7th – 12th Grade
Teaching Artist: Monah Yancy and Zach Valdez
April 18th, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Actors rely on their bodies, voices, and imagination to bring dynamic characters to life. In this intensive, you will explore how actors prepare their bodies and minds to bring different characters to life, explore the questions actors ask themselves and others when working in a scene, and bring a character through scene study, culminating in a staged reading of short scenes and monologues.
Cost: $75