Teen Theater Club provides teens 13-18 the opportunity to work on acting techniques, improv skills, fun, and also a few surprises.
Summer 2018 Teen Clubs
*Join us on Tuesday, June 12th from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm as we kick off summer clubs with a joint Tween & Teen Club – Double Ensemble Night!
Starting June 21, join us weekly on Thursday at 6:30 pm for Teen Club, led by Julia VanDyk, Vivian Cook, and Zoey Lazere.
Details
- Social time at 6:30 pm and workshop 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
- Dates: June 12, 21, 28; July 12, 19, 26; August 2, 9. (No clubs during the week of July 4.)
- All meetings are at the Story Theater Company rehearsal space, 615 S. Dayton Ave, Suite 133.
- A fee of $10 for the workshops will be collected upon arrival.
- All teens ages 13-18 are welcome!
- Pre-registration is not required.
- Parents of new participants will be asked to provide an Activity Authorization form. This form must be completed and signed by a parent prior to participating in the club. Parents can complete paperwork when dropping off participants at the first meeting, or complete the form in advance by downloading it from the website.
Teen Club Schedule – Summer 2018
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| June 12 *Tuesday* 6:30pm-9:00pm | Summer at STC Begins! Double Ensemble Night! Improv, storytelling, games, and more! Get ready to begin a summer of teen and tween clubs with a night of ensemble building. Both teens and tweens will gather in STC’s new blackbox to explore collaborative storytelling, saying “yes, and…,” and creating a summer environment filled with innovation, generosity, and curiosity. Bring your friends, and let’s kick off the summer with a celebration of theatre and the STC community! |
| June 21 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | Stage Makeup From “basic stage face” to crazy character makeup, tonight is all about stage makeup looks and how to create them. How do costumes and lighting affect your face onstage? How do you look older without looking silly? We’ll answer these questions and several more, with chances to practice your own stage makeup skills. |
| June 28 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | Your Theater Company If you’ve ever wondered how a theater company operates, tonight is your chance to find out! Build your own theater company from the ground up with everything from budgets to mission statements to choosing a season. With plenty of room for discussion and brainstorming, we’ll discover some truths to running a successful company. Bring your senses of humor and creativity, because this club will feature some fast-paced activity by the end of the night! |
| July 12 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | Design Concepts: Trash to Treasure In a new twist on a classic favorite, this club is all about the theatrical design process...and playing with trash! Tonight, you’ll start with a real, published play and work with a team to design concepts for it. We’ll talk through the process of getting costumes, props, sets, and more from script to stage, and experiment with some ideas. Along the way, get ready to turn some trash into treasure for your own unique take on your play! |
| July 19 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | Motivations and Mirroring Life on Stage: Psychological Realism In tonight’s teen club, we will dig deep into building characters from the inside out! Come ready to listen, experiment, and discover how we can create the magic of theatre through characters’ motivations, history, experiences, and dreams. Through games, psychological realism training techniques, and character exploration, we will immerse ourselves in the observational, analytical, and collaborative skills necessary to transform the stories we put on stage into reality! |
| July 26 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | “Yes, and…???” Improv night is back at STC! With two simple words, “Yes, and…,” the #1 rule of improv is formed. No matter what your experience with improvisational comedy might be, you are more than ready to join us for this week’s night of improv games galore! All it takes is listening, saying “yes” to your team members’ ideas, and building on the characters and worlds we imagine together! |
| August 2 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | The Bard Returns to STC! This year at STC features Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night for our teen show! Whether you plan to audition or not, in this week’s teen club, we will figure out how to unlock the language, action, stories, and worlds of William Shakespeare and connect them to our own. We will practice prose and poetry as we explore monologues and scenes from Twelfth Night itself, one of the Bard’s most popular comedies! |
| August 9 Thursday 6:30pm-9:00pm | The Moral of the Story: Medieval Theater Have you ever tried telling a story about a situation in order to improve it? Tonight we’ll explore the world of medieval theater, and the power of theater to both teach and entertain. Medieval “morality plays” were quite popular in their time, and usually tried to tell stories for a reason. At this club we’ll discuss ways to try our hand at that, too, with some medieval staging concepts to help us out! |
Looking For A Great Monlogue?
Click here for some great monologues, especially for teens.