Teen Company
We love our teens at Chicago Street and appreciate the chance to help them find and cultivate their own, unique voice and artistic style.
Striving to help them explore their talents, we offer a wide range of opportunities to dig deep into characters, try on different hats when it comes to productions, and encourage taking chances both on and off stage.
Teen Company is where our best and brightest get to stand center stage and shine.
In this class, company members will learn foundational acting skills that begin on the page and lead to stronger and more bold choices on the stage.
The first half of the semester, members will learn how to analyze a script, work on key stage presence skills, and how to use yourself and your space to inhabit roles more fully.
The second half of the semester, members will work with instructors on choosing, blocking, and honing scripted scenes of the members’ choice. Ultimately working to create a fully realized scene that can be used for portfolios and an end of semester showcase.
This class is first taught by Avery, then also Whitney and Allison in the second half of the semester.
In this class, company members will learn foundational acting skills that begin on the page and lead to stronger and more bold choices on the stage.
The first half of the semester, members will learn how to analyze a script, work on key stage presence skills, and how to use yourself and your space to inhabit roles more fully.
The second half of the semester, members will work with instructors on choosing, blocking, and honing scripted scenes of the members’ choice. Ultimately working to create a fully realized scene that can be used for portfolios and an end of semester showcase.
This class is first taught by Avery, then also Whitney and Allison in the second half of the semester.
This semester we are introducing our rotating Saturday workshops.
These workshops offer introductions into new areas of theatrical studies that will help teens become well-rounded in a theatre space.
From specialized movement to design, we hope to show students that there are many avenues for exploration on and off the stage.
A foundational combat class introducing students to the core skills of safe and convincing stage violence. Students’ progress through unarmed technique, learning the discipline, awareness, and physical control required for performance-quality combat.
This workshop runs for 6 weeks, starting on Sept. 19th and ending Oct. 24th.
This workshop is taught by Jason.
An introduction workshop that will teach students basic construction skills for the stage, tool handling and safety, and how to navigate and collaborate on set builds. Students will walk away with having built  and decorated their own scenic flats.
This workshop runs for 6 weeks, starting on Oct. 3rd and ending Nov. 7th. This will be hosted in our scenic shop and stage, as needed.
This class is taught by Mike.
An introduction to design work for producing a full show. Students are asked to bring a play of their choice to read over and do an overview design from all aspects of a show: set, lights, costume/makeup, and sound. By the end of the workshop, they will have a portfolio worthy unrealized production design of their favorite show.
This workshop runs for 6 weeks, starting on Sept. 19th and ending Oct. 24th.
This workshop is taught by Avery.
An introduction to rhythm, dance, and choreography for the stage. Students will learn choreographed moves as well as what it means using dance as a method of communication and performance.
This workshop runs for 6 weeks, starting on Oct. 31st and ending Dec. 12th, with a break for the week of Thanksgiving.
This workshop is taught by Whitney.