After School Programs
Musicals & Plays | Performers Program | Learn More
School Productions are within reach with Dandylyon Drama’s Performers Program. Every student plays a role that will build on their strengths and grow in confidence.
- We provide opportunities for every student to shine on stage.
- Our Creative Team provides the organization needed to mobilize your parent volunteers.
- We make the whole process affordable for your PTA or school by providing a wealth of ideas for sponsorship, tiered tuition, and fundraising to balance the budget.
Mainstage Performers is our enrichment program which culminates in a mainstage production on a professional stage. This program is designed specifically to partner smoothly with your school or Parent Teacher organization.
Students will fall in love with the theatre arts, while learning skills that build social-emotional strengths. Rehearsals are held at your school led by our professional teaching artists. Young performers will delve into performance skills in character development, dance, music, and more, all while creating friendships and confidence to last a lifetime.
Rehearsals are multiple days a week and culminate in two 40-minute costumed performances on a stage with lights, sounds, props, and set.
Opening Act Performers is our enrichment program which can be added on at schools that have secured a Performers timeslot. The younger grades at your school work on 1 song to perform as the Opening Act of your mainstage performance.
Rehearsals are 1 day a week and culminate in two 5-minute costumed performances.
Clubs | Creators Program | Learn More
Our Creators Program is an easy way to bring performing arts to your school! Our After School Clubs center student imagination, creative play, and crafting stories that will grow their strengths and confidence.
- Fits into standard quarterly afterschool enrichment timeslot.
- Our experienced Teaching Artists are wonderful to work with!
- We handle registration.
Play Creators is our enrichment program which culminates in a short one act play shared with family and friends on the last day of class. Each student chooses their own character and collaborates with the team to create a wacky new story. This program is ideal for grades 3rd and up, and designed specifically to partner smoothly with your school or Parent Teacher organization.
Students will fall in love with the theatre arts, while learning skills that build social-emotional strengths. Club sessions are held at your school led by our professional teaching artists. Young performers will delve into performance skills in character development, creative collaboration, and play structure, all while creating friendships and confidence to last a lifetime.
This club meets one day a week and culminates in one 15-minute costumed performance in a classroom.
Story Creators are for our youngest performers in Kindergarten through 2nd grade. These performers explore a story and share a creative celebration of that story with family and friends on the last day of class.
Students get all of the fun without any performance pressure, while learning skills that build social-emotional strengths. Young performers explore character, story structure, and creative play, all while creating friendships and confidence to last a lifetime.
This club meets one day a week and culminates in one 15-minute costumed celebration in a classroom.
Community Classes
Dandylyon Drama partners with Shoreline Community College Continuing Ed to provide performing arts classes to you!
YAS | Young Actors Studio – Learn More
YAS is our collection of fun skill-building classes offered Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters for students ages 7-15. Classes each focus on a different acting skill ranging from Musical Theater Production to Storytelling and Playmaking to Comedy, Improv and Theater Sports. Check out what classes we are currently offering this quarter.
HYPE | Hardy Youth Performance Ensemble – Learn More
HYPE is an inclusive community of teen performers committed to building emotional resilience and self-expression through diverse performing arts genres. HYPE is not your average teen class; it’s an electrifying and inclusive community of young performers, bursting with passion and commitment. Here, we believe in building a strong sense of belonging, where everyone’s unique voice and talent are celebrated. Join us, create and perform to leave an unforgettable mark on the world!
CAPE | Creative Adaptive Performance Ensemble – Learn More
CAPE is a community of performers (ages 18+) with disabilities, committed to artistic excellence, who create and perform their own original stories. Tackling all elements of performance— conceiving of characters, writing scripts, creating costumes, sets, and props, and mastering blocking and choreography.
Summer Camps
Let your child’s imagination take center stage during these exciting acting camps! We will explore story, character, music, and movement inspired by our theme of the week.
Camps are led by professional theatre teaching artists who will help your camper to grow in creativity, compassion, and courage as they learn acting techniques while getting plenty of time to enjoy the sun and the shade of our lovely outdoor locations.
Playmakers, Storytellers, Performers and CAPE – Learn More
Playmakers work throughout the week to create a one of a kind original one act play inspired by our theme of the week, which they will perform in costume, for friends and family on the final day of camp.
Storytellers are for our youngest campers and have a sharing time on the final day of camp, featuring costumes and props as we take family and friends on a journey through our camp theme.
Performers sing, dance and act throughout the week creating their own musical theater inspired showcase!
CAPE (Creative Adaptive Performance Ensemble) camps are for actors with disabilities. Performers will spend the week creating an original play with experienced Teaching Artists in an accessible rehearsal and performance space. We are equipped to make accommodations to help each camper succeed.
Dandylyon Drama is committed to accessibility. If your student requires reasonable accommodations to succeed in one of our programs, please contact us no less than 10 days prior to the start of the program so that we can make appropriate arrangements.
