Performance & Acting Classes for the School Year (Fall 2025)

Performance of Treasure Island at Traveling Players
Improve Acting Skills
Perform in a Fully Staged Production

In this class, students will be part of a close-knit ensemble, gaining personalized training that sharpens their acting, improv, and physical theatre technique. Students will build confidence, form lasting friendships, and gain experience by working as a team to bring a play to life.

Each production is led by a professional director and supported by a full creative team. From custom costumes and sets to props, sound, and lighting, students will perform in a final production in our Studio at Tysons Corner Center in front of friends, family, and the public.

Performance Classes for Teens

Grades 7 - 12

Improve Acting Skills
Perform in a Fully Staged Production

In this class, students will be part of a close-knit ensemble, gaining personalized training that sharpens their acting, improv, and physical theatre technique. Students will build confidence, form lasting friendships, and gain experience by working as a team to bring a play to life.

Each production is led by a professional director and supported by a full creative team. From custom costumes and sets to props, sound, and lighting, students will perform in the final in our Studio at Tysons Corner Center in front of friends, family, and the public. Improve your acting skills while performing in a play!

Get personalized training to kick your skills into high gear, while making new friends in your small ensemble of dedicated actors.  Students will learn acting, improv, and physical theatre technique during rehearsals.

This performance class mounts a play using a tight ensemble of actors. The play will be professionally directed and fully produced — with custom-designed costumes, set, props, sound score, and lighting. The show will beperformed in our Studio at Tysons Corner Center for your friends and family — as well as the public!

Acting Classes for Kids & Teens

Grades 2 - 12

No Audition Required
Build and Refine Acting Skills
Expand Imagination and Friendships

In this class, kids and teens are provided professional training in every aspect of performance — from acting and character development to physical comedy, improvisation, stage combat, and text analysis.

Beyond technique, we emphasize the power of ensemble work. Through collaborative activities and team-building exercises, students gain confidence, strengthen their creativity, and form meaningful friendships that last a lifetime.

Private Acting Lessons

All Ages

Preparing for college auditions? Want to perfect your monologues? Or maybe you simply want to strengthen your acting skills?

In these one-on-one private acting lessons, instruction is tailored to each student’s goals, and they work directly with our Founder and Producing Artistic Director, Jeanne E. Harrison. Or choose to work with any of our talented, experienced, and compassionate faculty members.

*Price and availability vary from teacher to teacher. Please contact for details.

Homeschool Groups

Homeschool students are welcome to join our regularly scheduled programming, but if a group (of 8 students or more) would like to coordinate a class or show during typical school hours we can accommodate. Please use the form below to contact us about class focus or show title, dates, and rates.

Contact Us

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Studio

Traveling Players Studio
Tysons Corner Center – D1L
1961 Chain Bridge Road, Tysons, VA 22102

Mailing

P.O. Box 1315
Great Falls, VA 22066

Traveling Players Ensemble is funded in part by ArtsFairfax and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Photo Credits Include: Jess Wallach - The Body is Good, Isaiah Brown - Pint Sized Productions, Jillian Skara, Lloyd Wolfe, Eleanor Tucker, and Morgan Shotwell
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