5 Reasons to Bring Traveling Players to Your School & Theatre Class

Looking to inspire your theatre students and elevate your drama education program? Traveling Players brings professional teaching artists directly to your school for customizable theatre workshops and master classes in Shakespeare, mask work, improv, theatrical design, and more—designed to boost students’ confidence, creativity, and collaboration.

Here are 5 reasons to bring a Traveling Players school residency to your campus:

 1. Customizable Theatre Workshops That Fit Your Curriculum

Traveling Players tailors each session to your academic goals, student experience level, and course structure. Whether it’s a one-time class or semester-long residency, our team works with your educators to integrate seamlessly with your curriculum. Let us take your theatre students on a journey they’ll never forget—one that brings literature to life and confidence to the stage.

2. Professional Support for School Productions

Our faculty collaborates with your teachers to guide students from script selection to the final performance. We provide full production support—from casting and directing to design consultation and technical execution. Whether you’re staging a Shakespearean comedy or an ensemble-devised piece, our team brings expertise, energy, and a deep understanding of student-centered performance to your school.

3. Tailored Performing Arts Education

Traveling Players school residencies are crafted around your students’ needs with hands-on, high-impact workshops, including:

• Commedia dell’Arte: Introduce students to the hilarious world of Commedia dell’Arte, where classic stock characters, masks, costumes, and set pieces of physical comedy bring centuries-old satire to life.
• Character Mask: Drama students tap into expressive physicality and discover how limitation sparks creativity and authentic character work.
• Improvisation: These short and long-form master classes unlock creativity and collaboration while equipping students with the skills to think quickly and remain confident.
• Acting Styles: From Stanislavsky’s realism to the Viewpoints method, students explore diverse acting styles that cultivate truthful emotion, presence, and performance.
• Play/Text Analysis: Students uncover theme, structure, and subtext while learning to read and stage a script like a director or actor.
• Shakespeare: Help students go beyond memorizing lines to explore the rhythm and rhetoric of the Bard’s language through voice, breath, and physicality.
• Movement for the Actor: Empower students to use their bodies as instruments of storytelling in movement-based theatre training that enhances presence and non-verbal communication.
• Directing 101 : Students step into the director’s chair to learn blocking, staging, and vision-crafting, gaining leadership and creative decision-making skills.
• Classical Literature & Bias: This helps students critically examine classical texts through the lens of racism, misogyny, and historical context, encouraging thoughtful engagement.

Whether you’re enhancing a drama curriculum or launching a new initiative, these workshops offer engaging, age-appropriate theatre education.

4. Performance-Based Experiential Learning

Our approach emphasizes doing over lecturing. Students learn by acting--through monologues, scene improv, and collaborative performance. Even students who are typically shy or hesitant in academic subjects thrive in these active, ensemble-driven sessions that make learning physical and memorable. Traveling Players brings theatre off the page and into the body because it’s not just learning about the arts—it’s learning through the arts.

5. Flexible Scheduling & Affordable Pricing

At Traveling Players, we understand that time and budget constraints can make it challenging to enhance drama education. That’s why our pricing is clear and accessible—starting at just $100 per class for custom workshops and $150 per hour for master classes.

We believe every student deserves access to professional theatre training, regardless of budget. If needed, we’ll help you explore grant opportunities and PTA funding to support your program’s goals.

Bring transformative theatre education to your school—on your schedule, within your budget. Learn more or book your school residency with Traveling Players.