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
AUDITIONThis 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
Current Grades:
7 - 9
Cost:
$850
-Sat, Aug 30, 1 - 5 pm
*By Invitation Only - Only those who participated in Summer 2025's Thespian Ensemble are eligible to audition.
INTERVIEWLearn 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
Current Grades:
7 - 12
Cost:
$450
Scheduled individually upon registration.
Priority given to Summer 2025's Tech Apprentices.
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, TBC
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.
Audition Date:
Saturday, December 13th from 10:30 am - noon
After 10 long years of battle, Troy has fallen, and the Greeks are finally returning home. Penelope waits for her husband Odysseus to return home, but Poseidon, God of the Sea, veers Odysseus and his soldiers far off course. For 10 more years, he must sail the world, battle great monsters, and brave the River Styx. Meanwhile, at home, Penelope must fight battles of her own against greedy suitors who wish to steal the throne. Based on Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey is an adventure about community, overcoming fate, and finding honor in humility.
Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays, TBC
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.
Audition Date:
Saturday, December 13th from 1 - 3 pm
Ten years of battle at the walls of Troy end with the disappearance of the Greek armies and the appearance of a gift, a wooden horse, pregnant with soldiers. The Trojans invite their destruction behind their impenetrable wall. In the aftermath of the ensuing bloodbath, Queen Hecuba struggles to save what remains of her family and fellow women from the conquering Greeks.
Dates:
Saturdays & Sundays, TBC
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.
Audition Date:
Friday, December 12 from 7 - 9 pm
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.
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, TBC
*Dates & Times vary. See schedule for more details.
Interviews:
Scheduled individually upon registration.
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 Morgan Shotwell 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.
Need-based Financial Aid is available for all programs. Please contact Morgan Shotwell at outreach@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
Traveling Players Studio
Tysons Corner Center – D1L
1961 Chain Bridge Road, Tysons, VA 22102
P.O. Box 1315
Great Falls, VA 22066
