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Summer Theater Workshop For Young People
Kids on Stage RETURNS for 2024 !!!
CREATIVE DRAMATICS •
Grades 1-6
June 15 - August 3, 2024
Orientation for All Programs is Saturday Morning June 8th at 10am at the VTG Theatre
1st – 3rd Grade
- Saturday Mornings 10:00 to 11:15
- 2024 Session Begins: June 15
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $75
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4th – 6th Grade
- Saturday Mornings 11:30 to 12:45
- 2024 Session Begins: June 15
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $75
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1st – 3rd Grade
- Saturday Mornings 10:00 to 11:15
- 2023 Session Begins: June 17
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $50
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4th – 6th Grade
- Saturday Mornings 11:30 to 12:45
- 2023 Session Begins: June 17
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $50
- Click here to register
Taking Your Acting to the Next Level •
Middle & High School Students
June 12 - July 31, 2024
Orientation for All Programs is Saturday Morning June 8th at 10am at the VTG Theatre
Theatre Games, Improv and the Young Actor
Theatre games and improv help young performers to have more awareness of how all their senses and imagination can be used in creating characters and building scenes. They will also explore the value of teamwork and supporting their fellow actor to make everyone look better on stage. This class is suitable for beginners as well as more advanced students, as one learns from the other.
- Wednesday Evenings 6:30-7:30
- 2024 Session Begins: June 12
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $75
- Click here to register
Scene / Monologue Study
This class is for middle and high school students who want to work on written scenes and/or monologues. They may come in with a theatrical piece in mind, or choose from scenes and monologues provided by the instructor. Scenes are age appropriate and will be tailored to the experience level of the student.
- Wednesday Evenings 7:30-8:45
- 2024 Session Begins: June 12
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $75
- Click here to register
Theatre Games, Improv and the Young Actor
Theatre games and improv help young performers to have more awareness of how all their senses and imagination can be used in creating characters and building scenes. They will also explore the value of teamwork and supporting their fellow actor to make everyone look better on stage. This class is suitable for beginners as well as more advanced students, as one learns from the other.
- Wednesday Evenings 6:30-7:30
- 2023 Session Begins: June 14
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $50
- Click here to register
Scene / Monologue Study
This class is for middle and high school students who want to work on written scenes and/or monologues. They may come in with a theatrical piece in mind, or choose from scenes and monologues provided by the instructor. Scenes are age appropriate and will be tailored to the experience level of the student.
- Wednesday Evenings 7:30-8:45
- 2023 Session Begins: June 14
- Sessions run 8 weeks.
- Fee: $50
- Click here to register
faculty
Judy Laughlin
Creative Dramatics Judy has a BA in Theatre from Rockford College in Rockford, IL, and for the past 11 years she has been doing theatre throughout the Chicago area. As an actor, she has worked with Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights, Village Players in Oak Park, Alchemy Theatre in Wood Dale, Oakton Community College in River Forest, Elgin Community College in Elgin, and in Chicago with The Artistic Home, The Cornservatory, For This Productions, Lincoln Square Theatre, Fury Theatre, and Akvavit Theatre. Backstage, she has been a stage manager, a lighting designer, a costumer, a director, and a stagehand. She has directed full-scale children's productions of Robin Hood, Treasure Island, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and she has been Miss Lynn's trusted assistant for the past several years of Kids On Stage at Village Theatre Guild in Glen Ellyn. Children's theatre is always fun, always exciting, and always an adventure!
Debbie Ruzicka
Taking Your Acting to the Next Level Debbie Ruzicka has taught speech and acting as a coach of the nationally recognized Buffalo Grove High School Speech team for 12 years. She has also been a professional actress off and on for over 30 years, with over 60 plays, movies and commercials on her resume. She is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory, and The Ohio State University.
Download Flyer
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Questions?
Please call the Village Theatre Guild at 630-469-8230 or email at [email protected]
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