Shows (grades 7 - 9)

Professionally directed, just for students.

Traveling Players always offers expert training in acting, character creation, physical comedy, stage combat, improvisation, and text analysis. We value the spirit of the ensemble. Our ensemble and team-building activities create a strong, supportive cast and friendships that will last a lifetime.

Our rehearsals will prepare students well, with analysis of contemporary and classical language, acting exercises, movement workshops and improvisational games that explore the world of the play. The class is appropriate for experienced actors as well as eager and committed newbies.

As a parent, it has been such a thrill over the years to see all of these positive developments in my daughter and to have found such a unique and innovative program where she has received intensive and constructive theater training in an environment that takes the participants seriously, wants them to improve and strengthen their skills, but also wants them to have fun!

— Parent

THESPIANS
AUDITION

Servant of Two Masters

by Carlo Goldoni

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

Day & Time:

Saturdays & Sundays, 1 - 4 pm

Dates:

Sept 6 - Oct 5

Rehearsal ScheduleAttendance Policy

Current Grades:

7 - 9

Cost:

$850

Audition Date:

-Sat, Aug 30, 1 - 5 pm

*By Invitation Only - Only those who participated in Summer 2025's Thespian Ensemble are eligible to audition.

AUDITION
TECHNICAL THEATRE
INTERVIEW

Learn what it takes to create the technical side of a production!  Tech students will be given an opportunity to delve into lighting, costumes, repairs, sound, and run crew.

Day & Time:

Saturdays & Sundays, 1 - 4 pm

Dates:

Sept 6 - Oct 5

Tech ScheduleAttendance Policy

Current Grades:

7 - 12

Cost:

$450

Interviews:

Scheduled individually upon registration.
Priority given to Summer 2025's Tech Apprentices.

INTERVIEW

Thespians

current grades 7 - 9 | $850

By audition only. 
Must have participated in Summer 2025's Thespian Ensemble to audition.

Servant of Two Masters

by Carlo Goldoni

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

Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays, Sept 6 - Oct 5, 1 - 4 pm
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.

Audition Date:
-Sat, Aug 30, 1 - 5 pm

Dramatists

current grades 8 - 12 | $1600

By audition only.

Orlando

Adapted by Sarah Ruhl from Virginia Woolf

Audition for a lyrical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s fantastical masterpiece, Orlando! A three-hundred-year epic in which a young nobleman in Queen Elizabeth’s court journeys through time and becomes a woman in the bustling atmosphere of 20th-century London. Falling in and out of love on his/her adventures and struggling to write a poem about an oak tree, this adaptation is sustained by a chorus of actors who must inhabit different characters throughout the centuries. Sarah Ruhl (by way of Woolf) creates a mesmerizing theatrical experience that tackles the ways in which gender has conformed us, and the ways in which art will set us free.    

Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays, Jan 11 - Mar 23, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.

Next Audition Dates:
-Fri, Dec 20, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
-Sun, Jan 5, 4:00 - 7:00 pm

*8th graders - Audition for your first choice show. Please note that you will be accepted into whichever show and ensemble will feature you the best.

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Technical Theatre

current grades 7 - 12 | $450

By interview only.
Priority given to Summer 2025's Tech Apprentices.

Learn what it takes to create the technical side of a production!  Tech students will be given an opportunity to delve into lighting, costumes, repairs, sound, and run crew.

Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays, Sept 6 - Oct 5, 1 - 4 pm
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.

Interviews:
-Scheduled individually upon registration.

Attendance Policy

We ask that students have no more than 1 (one) conflict during the rehearsal process. As we are an ensemble theatre company, we limit our cast sizes and maximize each actor's time on stage. This allows our actors lots of opportunities to learn and perform, but it means that it can be very difficult to rehearse when an actor is out.

If your student would exceed this limit, please email Emma Mearns to see if exceptions can be made.

Once you have completed your conflict form (sent upon audition registration), adding and/or changing conflicts is not permitted (barring illness/family emergencies).

Conflicts during tech and/or shows are not permitted.

Discounts

Need-based Financial Aid is available for all programs. Please contact Emma Mearns at programassistant@travelingplayers.org or more information.

 

I just wanted to thank you and Traveling Players for all the training you guys have given me in the last three years.  I got third place in my school’s Shakespeare monologue competition [as a freshman], and I give the credit ENTIRELY to the very worthy Traveling Players Ensemble. I love Traveling Players so much and I am glad to have met each and every person I’ve met there!

-Student

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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