theater classes
2025-2026
kids-teens
Creating &
Understanding
Characters
Instructors: Joni Mock, Chris Bernard
Day of the Week: Mondays
Session 1: August 11th - September 29th
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Whitaker Black Box Theater
Tuition: $99 per 8 week session ($90 Member)
Ages: 13 - 18
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Enjoy theater games, improvisation, and relaxation techniques while improving characterization. Students will create believable characters by focusing on background, personality, motivation, and obstacles. Using a variety of scenes and character types, students will practice intentional movement, tactics for achieving goals, and reactions to other characters based on relationships, plot, and setting. Bring your imagination and your willingness to learn!
Scene Shapers
Instructors: Joni Mock, Chris Bernard
Day of the Week: Mondays
Session 3: January 12th - March 2nd
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Location: Whitaker Black Box Theater
Tuition: $99 per 8 week session ($90 Member)
Ages: 13 - 103
​In live performance and in real life, unexpected things happen. In this class, you can learn the guidelines for successful improvisation while navigating unscripted, unplanned situations with other “scene shapers”! Improvisation can be a fun, serious, and/or dramatic way to gain confidence, foster quick thinking, embrace unexpected twists, and stimulate creativity and innovation.
Whether you enjoy the challenge of improv or want to challenge yourself to give improv a try, everyone involved will benefit. No acting experience necessary.