Building Confidence, Creativity, and Community
If you are looking for acting classes for children and youth – you’ve come to the right spot. We have acting and musical theatre classes and camps for kids from 6-8, and 9-12 and youth from 13-15 and 16-18. Our Stage Right and Little Stars classes are the most well-established acting courses for Kingston kids.
We value achievement and personal enrichment in our acting classes. Our program sets the student up to succeed while allowing that failure is a normal part of learning. “Try, try again” brings success. This is not art therapy; we aim to develop performance-oriented acting skills so that audiences are entertained. We can’t help it that these skills serve people well in many more aspects of their lives – but we’re fine with that! Bottle Tree Productions invests in quality instructors and scripts, professional venues, and main stage shows that support the talent in the classes.
Bottle Tree Productions’ Artist Educator Anne Marie Mortensen has this to say about theatre:
Participating in theatre can create life-long friendships, and it can build skills, which builds confidence. There is a place for everyone in the theatre. If you love to be on stage, if you love to write, to sew, to paint, to build, to manage, to design, to dance, to move, to sing, to play, or if what you really love is to watch and be transported – there is a place for you. Belonging to a community is a basic human need that is well-met with this artform. I see how our company has helped people, young and old, to create this community, to move together toward a mutual goal, to support each other and spin gold from straw. In theatre, through story telling, people can create something from nothing. That is magic.
(My child) is loving classes…said her face hurt from smiling and laughing so much after last class. It’s so great to experience such a fun group where she can share her sense of humour and creativity.
~A Happy Mom
My two girls have taken classes for several years and love it here. They have grown so much from the quiet kids they were. Anne Marie, you have been hard at work. The space looks great and it is buzzing with activity!
D. O.
Typically, registration is ready four weeks before the start of the next term. We recommend subscribing to the newsletter so that you get registration information delivered directly to your inbox.
We do! Please check out the adult classes here.
The classes are offered at different times to accommodate people who may not be able to attend a weekend, or vice-versa. Two of the same class are not interchangeable, so if you have a very keen young actor, you could sign them up for multiple of the same class during the week – it is not necessary-but you _could_. They would be working on two different end of class shows at one time.
Classes are grouped by age, not experience. We take each actor as they come and work on personal bests, so that they end the term on a higher level than when they started. Various levels are represented in each class.