Winter Acting Classes 2022
Our winter acting classes provide acting training and community building through the power of the ensemble. It’s like taking private classes with a small group of friends!
Each year that our daughter has attended a Traveling Players program (3 summers and 2 winters), I have been so impressed not only by the wonderful and professional nature of the programs, but by the genuine camaraderie developed between the cast and the directors. No other program or experience has been more challenging or meaningful for my daughter. Thank you!
-Parent
Our winter acting classes ensure our students become skilled storytellers — either in our professionally directed plays, or while navigating a complicated, collaborative improvisation of their own devising.
Small class size means plenty of individual instruction, and the supportive, high-energy environment brings out the best in every student. Whether you’re joining us for the first time, or a summer camp veteran looking to hone your craft, these classes will take your acting to the next level.
Plays
D & D Improv
In-Person
By audition
A show! 4 Performances!
REHEARSALS: Jan – Mar
INCLUDES: COSTUMES, PROPS & SETS!
ONLINE – VIA ZOOM
No audition, no homework …
… All Imagination!
2 START DATES — Jan & Feb
INCLUDES: 6 PURPLE DICE!
Our most popular classes are back! Develop robust 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 be performed in our Studio at Tysons Corner Center for your friends and family — as well as the public!
Harness the popular role-playing game D&D to form a new kind of ensemble: the Adventuring Improv Party! Instead of retelling an already-existing story, we customize each adventure for maximum creativity and theatrical challenge!
Actors will create bold characters, overcome obstacles, and make strategic and innovative choices on the spot as they use long-form improvisation as a storytelling tool.
Each class will feed into the next, in an ongoing original story that encourages actors to work together both as characters and as collaborators designing an expansive story — their own epic adventure!
Plays
In-Person
By audition
A show! 4 Performances!
REHEARSALS: Jan – Mar
INCLUDES: COSTUMES, PROPS & SETS!
Our most popular classes are back! Develop robust 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 be performed in our Studio at Tysons Corner Center for your friends and family — as well as the public!
D & D Improv
ONLINE – VIA ZOOM
No audition, no homework …
… All Imagination!
2 START DATES — Jan & Feb
INCLUDES: 6 PURPLE DICE!
Harness the popular role-playing game D&D to form a new kind of ensemble: the Adventuring Improv Party! Instead of retelling an already-existing story, we customize each adventure for maximum creativity and theatrical challenge!
Actors will create bold characters, overcome obstacles, and make strategic and innovative choices on the spot as they use long-form improvisation as a storytelling tool.
Each class will feed into the next, in an ongoing original story that encourages actors to work together both as characters and as collaborators designing an expansive story — their own epic adventure!
Private Tutoring
One-on-one Monologue Coaching
Applying to college? Need to sharpen up those audition monologues? Get some pointers from Traveling Players’ Founder & Producing Artistic Director, Jeanne E. Harrison. Or select any one of our other skilled and compassionate faculty members!
By appointment only. Contact jeharrison@travelingplayers.org.
Want private coaching on a different topic? Just let us know! Many of our brilliant instructors have the time to reconnect with you right now. Prices vary with instructors. Send an email to jeharrison@travelingplayers
D & D Improv
No audition, no homework …
… All Imagination!
2 START DATES — Jan & Feb
INCLUDES: 6 PURPLE DICE!
Harness the popular role-playing game D&D to form a new kind of ensemble: the Adventuring Improv Party! Instead of retelling an already-existing story, we customize each adventure for maximum creativity and theatrical challenge!
Actors will create bold characters, overcome obstacles, and make strategic and innovative choices on the spot as they use long-form improvisation as a storytelling tool.
Each class will feed into the next, in an ongoing original story that encourages actors to work together both as characters and as collaborators designing an expansive story — their own epic adventure!
One Act Plays
By audition
A show!
REHEARSALS: Jan – Mar
INCLUDES: COSTUMES, PROPS & SETS!
Our most popular classes are back! Develop robust acting skills while performing in a play about young people standing up for themselves, and for justice, in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity.
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 filmmaking technique during rehearsals.
The play will be professionally directed and fully produced — with a custom-designed costume delivered to your door, a “Zoomologist” to help with tech, a virtual background set, and filmed vignettes integrated into the play. A public performance will be livestreamed to your friends and family.
6th and 9th graders have choices at Traveling Players! You can choose to either age up into an older age group, or stay and be a leader in the younger age group – either way you’re sure to have a ton of fun!
Current 6th Graders
- If you’re new to theatre, or you just finished the Acting Sampler Week or the Mythology Ensemble, we recommended that you stay in the 4th– 6th grade program. Most of your friends from the summer will be here and you will work with many of the amazing teachers you already know and love.
- If you’re looking for a new challenge, or if you were a part of the Thespian Ensemble we recommend that you join our 6th-9th grade program.
- If you’re auditioning for the Winter Performances but don’t know which group to choose, please attend the Thespians audition. During registration, you’ll be able to opt in to simultaneous consideration for the Players group.
Current 9th Graders
- If you’re new to theatre, or if you just finished our Thespian Ensemble, we recommended that you stay in the 6th-9th grade program. Most of your friends from the summer will be here, and you will work with many of the amazing teachers you already know and love.
- If you’re looking for a new challenge, or if you were a part of the Shakespeare Ensemble, we recommend that you join our 9th-12th grade program.
- If you’re auditioning for the Winter Performances but don’t know which group to choose, please attend the Dramatists audition. During registration, you’ll be able to opt in to simultaneous consideration for the Thespians group.
If you have any questions about which program would be perfect for you please call (703-987-1712) or email (campdirector@
What’s a Pod? To fight the social isolation kids are feeling right now, some parents are choosing to “take camp” with another family. Both kids would be at one house with their laptops and headphones, either inside or outside. During breaks, they could kick a soccer ball, eat brownies, walk the dog, or help each other memorize lines. They could be at the same house all the time, alternate houses, or only Pod certain days of the week. We’re calling these extended families “Pods!”
Form a Pod! If you’re interested, just let us know (campdirector@travelingplayers.org) and we’ll connect you to another family who is similarly interested. Then you can discover if you are both comfortable with the level of exposure in relation to coronavirus, if you live close to each other, and other logistics. We recommend keeping your Pod tight and consistent, and taking appropriate precautions as outlined by the CDC.
Separate Studios: Already have two or more campers in your home? Congrats! You already have a Pod! If the campers are in different ensembles, then they should each have a Studio of their own (separate rooms, trading off with one person working inside and the other outside). If campers are in the same ensemble, than they can work in the same room but each camper should wear wireless headphones to avoid feedback while still allowing the campers freedom of movement.
Private Tutoring
One-on-one Monologue Coaching
Applying to college? Need to sharpen up those audition monologues? Get some pointers from TPE’s founder & producing artistic director, Jeanne E. Harrison.
By appointment only. Contact jeharrison@travelingplayers.org.
Want private coaching on a different topic? Just let us know! Many of our brilliant instructors have the time to reconnect with you right now. Prices vary with instructors. Send an email to jeharrison@travelingplayers
Perfect for young performers, this class gives budding actors an overview of the art of performing through fun improvisation games and rehearsing short scenes.
Scene Study & Acting Technique
This scene study class gives students practice preparing a role in a play. Delve into the core of the scenes through rehearsals and improvisational games that teach acting technique and result in real growth as an actor.
Sixth graders accepted at permission of instructor. Please email Jeanne at jeharrison@
Ever felt like you get cast in the same roles over and over again? It’s probably because your body is locked into the same expressive form. Increase your mobility, express-ability…and castability! We will begin this class by analyzing your movement strengths and habits, and then we will expand your range with movement investigations — thereby expanding the types of characters that you can convincingly portray on stage. Best yet: you’ll get a Movement Workbook to chronicle your investigations and discoveries in – a place you can return to again and again while working on each new play and role. This class is great for students who have been exposed to physical theatre, like Commedia dell’Arte, as well as those who have done Shakespeare and basic acting training. Class size is limited, so sign up early!
Ninth graders accepted at permission of instructor. Please email Jeanne at jeharrison@
One-Day Intensives, Field Trips
During the fall, we also offer several One-day intensives, focusing on skills like stage combat, improv, clowning, and Commedia dell’Arte. We also offer some fun Field Trips!
The Maryland Renaissance Festival
Must be at least 12yrs old or in 7th grade to participate, Parents welcome! Rain or Shine!
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Commedia Intensive
8th – 11th Graders
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