Center Heats Up with Year-Round Eight-Week Acting Programs

Saturdays at for Youth ages 7-12
and for Teens 13-18.

An Exciting Fun-Packed Experience The students will have a long-term beneficial theatrical experience, leaving them with performance and/or technological skills and the feel of the process involved in a production. It will also help the student develop self confidence and self esteem.
The curriculum will include: creative drama, theater games, voice and speech activities, mime and acting experiences. Teen curriculum will include: scene study, character development, acting and audition preparation. These classes are for the beginner or experienced. Classes will taught by Claire Golden Drake who has experience at the Center with our summer Kids and has taught acting skills in many other venues.
She will share her enthusiasm for theater with the students.

Due to many requests, the Montgomery County Cultural Center will extent the summer arts program, offering after school and weekend acting programs during the Spring. Beginning in March, classes will be in in theater for children and teens. The class will run for eight weeks on Saturdays. The day and time will be determined after discussion with students.

Geared towards students interested in either the backstage or the onstage experience, the program offers a fun-packed, exciting experience on both sides of the footlights. Classes are organized to offer students a long-term beneficial theatrical experience, leaving them with performance and/or technical skill by providing a process oriented atmosphere culminating in an actual performance for parents and friends. The curriculum will include: creative drama, voice and speech, movement and stage crew. In addition, students will have the opportunity to meet visiting actors from professional theater companies and question them about professional life.

The instructor for this exemplary series of classes is Claire Golden Drake, a graduate of University of the Arts with a BFA degree in Theater Arts. Since that time she has worked with professional theaters in and around the Philadelphia area both on and off stage, and teaches theater arts and creative movement at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Overbrook pre-school and the Germantown Jewish Centre. Claire is a regular performer in touring shows with the Vagabond Acting Troupe, performs in conflict resolutions theatre workshops for schools and has taught and directed shows at ESF summer camps since 1995. She will bring to her students her love for theater and will share her creative talents with them.

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