Bring the magic of Lyric Arts to your school!
Lyric Arts Main Street Stage is a big city theater with home town charm. And that is exactly what our Education Programs are; theater professionals sharing their experience and expertise in a warm, caring fashion.
Lyric Arts has offered Theatrical Workshops for all ages at our beautiful theater on Main Street in Anoka for years. Now we want to bring these high energy, exciting learning opportunities to your school. We have a program to fit your needs all at a cost that is easy on family budgets.
Program Length:
Choose a 4, 6 or 8 week class. We’ll come to your school once per week to conduct a 1-hour workshop and help your students prepare for a final presentation for family and friends on the last day of class.
Programs for grades K-2:
- Fractured Fairy Tales: Imagine all of your favorite fairy tale characters mixed up to create a crazy new story for the stage. That is what you can expect in this fun, silly theater workshop! Students will explore creating characters with voice and body as well as basic acting techniques in preparation to perform a fun fractured fairy tale presentation for family and friends on the final class date.
- Pirates and Princesses: Do you like to pretend? Do you love make believe? Then this workshop is for you! Join us as we create a fantasy world full of princesses, pirates and mythical characters. Through games and acting activities, students will learn the basics of theater, culminating in a high energy presentation for family and friends on the final class date.
- Amazing Animals: What if animals could talk? Be part of this fun workshop and create a world of animals for the stage. Animal stories, animal games and animal fun is what this workshop is all about. Students will perform a final Amazing Animals presentation for family and friends on the final class date.
Programs for grades 3 – 6:
- Wonderful Wizards: Magic wands, potions and spells combine to create exciting wizard stage fun! Students will explore acting through theater games and build their own wizard characters to share with family and friends in a final class presentation.
- American Girl: Felicity, Kirsten, Molly, Kit, Julie and more! American Girl stories feature young women with courage, strength and kindness. Join the fun as we bring those characters to life through acting and dance. We’ll share our final presentation with family and friends on the final class date.
- Mysterious Myths: Explore the mysterious stories and myths from many different cultures. Students will learn all of the acting basics in this class; stage positions, voice projection and characterization while rehearsing a fun, energetic presentation for family and friends.
Program Cost:
4 week program: $36.00 per Student
6 week program: $54.00 per Student
8 week program: $72.00 per Student
Minimum class size is 10. Maximum class size is 25.
For more information, or to book your school group program, contact Allison Hall, Administrative Associate at Lyric Arts. 763-433-2510 or at info@lyricarts.org.
School Program Instructors:
Deborah Schee: Deborah holds a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Minnesota and has spent over 20 years working in the Training and Educational Development field. She combines this experience with her 30+ years of Community Theater acting to create a fun, engaging atmosphere for students. As Education Director, she guides the curriculum direction for Lyric Arts and works strategically to create best-in-class theater education opportunities for all ages. Deborah is also a workshop instructor at Lyric Arts and has taught many children’s classes over the past several years including; American Girl, Box Car Children, Stinky Cheese Man, Pee Wee Pirates and many more. Deborah can be seen frequently on the Lyric Arts stage and has also performed at several theaters in the Twin Cities including; Off Broadway Musical Theater, CROSS Community Players, Morris Park Players, Stages Theater Company, The Eden Prairie Players and Top Hat Theater. Some of her favorite Lyric Arts productions have been; Annie Get Your Gun, Steel Magnolias, Hallelujah Girls, Bridge to Terabithia, Plaza Suite, A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas, Nick Tickle Fairy Tale Detective and Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays.
Grif Sadow: “Bringing Out the Best in People!” is how Grif describes himself and his purpose in life. Grif has 30 years experience as a professional and community theatre performer, director, playwright, designer and educator. Grif was founder and CEO of Theatreferences, a theatre arts consulting firm dedicated to providing artistic, educational, administrative, and technical services, presentations, and productions for educational, business, community, and theatrical organizations. Some of those programs included, Director of the Park Center Theatre Department, Artistic Director for Ensemble Productions, Drama Specialist for St. Paul Academy, and various productions at Chisago Lakes, Forest Lake, Osseo, Columbia Heights, Champlin Park, Blaine and Maple Grove High Schools and Monroe Elementary.
