Teen Intensive (Spring 2024)
February 7, 2024 @ 5:00PM — June 8, 2024 @ 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Arc Stages: 147 Wheeler Ave Pleasantville, NY 10570 Get Directions
Teen Intensive is for students in 9th - 12th grades. Teen rehearsals will take place on either Tuesdays or Wednesdays from 5 - 9pm.
The Teen Intensive consists of a professional rehearsal process, with artists with extensive experience in the business. Rehearsals will include technique in acting, musical theatre, dance, and improv. This Intensive will culminate in a full-length production.
About our process: When you sign up for an audition, you are signing up for the session! We do not make ‘cuts.’ Auditions and Callbacks are simply a way for us to get to know our actors each session, and for them to gain confidence and comfortability with the audition process. Instead of choosing a show in advance and shoehorning children into it, we choose our shows, and our schedule for the semester, based on the schedules and auditions/callbacks of the actors who sign up. Our emphasis is on the process of putting on a show, integrating theater games and acting exercises throughout the rehearsals.
For the audition, please record a video of a brief monologue, and a brief song, and send them in by January 21st (a Dropbox link will be included in the registration confirmation email). Each audition piece should be under one minute long. Choose material you enjoy performing, and that shows you off! If you need assistance finding a monologue, email galit@arcstages.org. We are happy to help!
We will have in-person ‘callbacks’ on Wednesday, January 24th from 6 - 8 pm, to have actors read and sing from potential shows. By trying out different shows and material, we are seeing what shows (and how many) will best fit our actors that session. Our aim is to challenge our actors in different ways each session they sign up at Arc. We endeavor to nurture our actors, instill self-confidence, and a love for the process of putting on a show. Teen rehearsals begin the week of February 5. Each cast will have the final performances of their show in May or June 2024, depending on the schedule. If we have sufficient enrollment, there will be more than one Teen cast. Actors rehearse the same day every week, until two weeks prior to the show, when PreTech and Tech rehearsals are added.