REGISTRATION Is OPEN

FOR DURHAM REGIONAL THEATRE

8-WEEK ACTING CLASSES 2023 - 2024

Read DRT'S Educational Philosophy at the bottom of this page

“You inspire children to live into their best selves -- giving them confidence and a voice.” DRT Family, July 2019

“Every time our daughter takes one of your acting classes, her reading scores leap up.” DRT Family since 2013

Cost for each 8-week session: $200 with a 10% discount for 2nd+ child in family enrolled

SCHOLARSHIPS always available. Click Here for a: Scholarship Application form. 

SCHOLARSHIP fees, if any, may be paid using this DONATE Button:

CLASS LOCATION: CityWell Church, 2317 Chapel Hill Rd., Durham, NC (Corner of Huron & Chapel Hill)

• The size of all classes is limited to 12 students

• While Durham County continues to be a COVID HOT SPOT all students (and adults entering the building to drop off or pick up students) are required to wear masks

how to register  

• With a CARD: Press the BUTTON below the class session(s) you want to join

• With a CHECK: Send Check & registration form to Durham Regional Theatre (DRT), PO Box 61894, Durham, NC 27715.

• Download, fill out and return a 2023 - 2024 Class Registration Form

DRT REFUND POLICY: DRT does not refund camp or class registration fees except in the case of family emergencies. YOU MAY: 1) Make a tax deductible contribution to our vital SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM or 2) apply your registration fee to a future DRT class or summer theatre camp.

dRT THEATRE CLASSES 2023-2024

All classes perform a showcase play for family & friends at the end of each 8-week class session

CREATIVE ACTING 1 (9-16 Years)

TUESDAYS - 4:30 - 6:00

In Creative Acting I, beginning and intermediate young actors create characters, select locations and determine basic plot elements, which Ms. Justice writes into a script for rehearsal and performances. While learning the elements of good acting in voice, movement and character development, actors are guaranteed to perform the characters they helped create.

(NO CLASS on TUESDAY, March 26, 2024, DPS Spring Break)

September 12 - October 31, 2023, If You Dare….. WE ARE SORRY, BUT THE FALL 2023 SESSION OF CREATIVE ACTING I is FULL. We hope to see you in the winter or spring.

January 9 - February 27, 2024 Snow Cyclone

The WINTER 2024 Creative Acting 1 CLASS is FULL, please join us in the spring for “Madness in the air”

March 12 - May 7, 2024, Madness in the Air (no class on 3/26/24, for DPS Spring Break)

CREATIVE ACTING 2 Advanced (12-17 Years)

FRIDAYS - 4:30 – 6:00 pm

if you have not been in our advanced class before, contact our artistic director, jenny justice, before registering for creative acting II. For guidance, read the article below:

Are You Ready for Creative Acting 2?

In Creative Acting II, experienced young actors who consistently employ the basics of good acting, will use acting games, vocal exercises, rehearsal, and performance to build their talent . Advanced students must commit to at least 15-minutes a day of script /voice study outside of class. Plays are written by Jennifer Justice and actors are cast into roles by their director. The spring session is given to acting games.

September 15 - November 3, 2023, Terry the Time Traveler in The Affair of the Diamond Necklace (that caused Marie Antoinette to Lose Her Head,) 8th episode in the Terry the Time Traveler Science Fiction Series (REGISTRATION closes 9/5/2023)

January 12 - March 1, 2024, Chasing Blue, 2nd episode in the Firekeepers series of post-apocalyptic fantasy plays (REGISTRATION closes 1/2/2024)

March 15 - May 10, 2024, (No class 3/29/24, DPS Spring Break) Acting Games Galore

STORY-THEATRE (5-9 years)

SATURDAYS - 10:00 am - 11:00 am

with Master Storyteller (Boston Globe,) Jennifer Justice

Story Theatre  for imagination, language development, group cooperation, self-esteem, play invention and problem solving - and FUN! FUN! FUN! Students help create characters and plot, then learn and act out a play written especially for them!

September 16 - November 4, 2023, The Haunted Castle

January 13 - March 2, 2024, The Ice Castle

The WINTER 2024 STORY-THEATRE CLASS is FULL, please join us in the spring

March 16 - May 11, 2024, (No class 3/30/24, for DPS Spring Break) The Castle on Top of the Hill

See you at acting classes!

Jenny Justice, Artistic Director

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DRT EDucational philosophy

Durham Regional Theatre has a student centered educational philosophy that utilizes the ability of theatre arts to engage each child’s power to learn, with a special focus on literacy.

“Every time our daughter takes one of your acting classes, her reading scores leap up.” DRT Family since 2013

Each DRT theatre class provides learning opportunities across a range of knowledge – including art, music, math, history, science, geography, empathy, problem solving, group collaboration, as well as oral and written word literacy …

Two cornerstones of literacy are ownership of language and the motivation to use language. Even so-called ‘non-reading’ students take scripts eagerly from my hands and start to read without being asked, picking out key words and noting new vocabulary - deciding which character they want to play, whose words and feelings they will make their own and bring to life.      Jennifer Justice, DRT artistic director                                                                     

One mother asked her ‘non-reading’ daughter why the girl studied her scripts so diligently, underlining and looking up words she didn’t know, trying out the sound of lines she liked. The 5th grader answered with the strongest motivator of all (after our innate desire to learn.) She said, “This is fun.”
 
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