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Green Tea & Little Green Tea Youth Acting Companies

SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE’S YOUTH ACTING COMPANY IS NOT JUST ANOTHER ACTING CLASS OR AFTER-SCHOOL THEATER PROGRAM.

Our youth acting companies give your child the skills to be a successful actor and a leader. Green Tea Students Will Gain:

  • Confidence and Empathy
  • Teamwork
  • Public Speaking
  • A Love of Language
  • Creativity

Students will collaborate alongside theater professionals as our teachers foster a caring, nurturing, and peaceful environment. Your child will be encouraged to be kind, respectful, and a role model for others.

PROGRAMMING INCLUDES

  • Monthly workshops and ensemble sessions, currently held in-person in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and via Zoom, to work on personal and ensemble development with a dedicated instructor.
  • Periodic after-school and summer, winter, and spring break theater camps — Shakespeare Boot-camp — held with STS teaching artists. The daily camp’s acting classes will explore ways of using voices, language, and bodies to tell stories based on Shakespeare and other classic writers.
  • A production afternoon/evening camp experience in the Fall and Spring based on a classic title chosen with students.
  • Access to monthly acting classes, workshops, and interviews with STS and other theater professionals.
  • College, community, and professional audition and portfolio prep.
  • Participation in STS main stage performances.
  • Free tickets for all STS performances.
  • Guaranteed membership in the STS adult company upon successful completion of Green Tea programming.
  • Apprenticeships, Internships, and observing experiences in STS rehearsals with professional actors and musicians.

OUR YOUTH COMPANY PROGRAMMING SERVES TWO AGE GROUPS

  • Green Tea youth acting company provides theatre experience for students from ages 8-17.
  • Little Green Tea youth acting company provides theatre experience for students from ages 4-7.

**Though the acting classes will be split into two age groups, performances will include the entire group**
Dates, Registration, and Audition Details HERE!

TUITION

Sweet Tea Shakespeare offers two ways to pay for our youth acting company programming:

  • BEST VALUE!  A Monthly Subscription through Patreon starting at the level of $40 a month
    • Includes access to all programming throughout the year.
    • Discounts for Military Families as part of our Blue Star Theatres program ($10 off per student!)
    • Multi-child discounts are available ($10 off per family!)
    • Covers all monthly tuition costs.
  • Pay Per Program.  Pay a standalone fee for individual programs as they happen.
    • $45 per monthly workshop. Competitive rates for periodic camps and productions.
    • Package and Multi-child discounts are available.

Past Productions

Past productions include Twelfth Night, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis, The Sea Voyage by Beaumont and Fletcher, and Romeo & Juliet.

“LOVE IS THE STRONGEST CHOICE.”

At Sweet Tea Shakespeare, we believe in love. Love for the text, for the artists, and for the audience. When confronted with any challenge in these wonderful texts, we seek to see how far choosing love will get us.