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Dramatic Arts
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Adventure Theater Academy
Location(s): Rockville and Glen Echo
Adventure Theater's Musical Theater Academy is an academy and theater company. The academy offers weekly children's classes focusing on acting, song, and dance for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Musical Theater summer camps are also offered for first through twelfth graders.
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Young Artists of America
Location(s): North Bethesda
YAA provides training in acting, dance, and voice for serious students of musical theater. Classes are offered for students in grades 4 through 12. No experience is required, but students are placed into levels based on audition videos submitted at registration. Instruction takes place over a 12 week long session of classroom instruction.
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Lumina Studio Theater
Location(s): Silver Spring
Lumina offers opportunities for kids aged 8 to 18 to perform Shakespeare and other classical plays. Lumina offers both weekly rehearsal groups and summer camps for student productions. Rehearsal groups run seasonally with registration in the fall and spring.
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Round House Theater
Location(s): Bethesda and Silver Spring
Round House Theater is a Bethesda landmark, but the education center in Silver Spring is a key part of the organization's mission. Round House offers youth classes focused on acting, movement, design, and play creation for children from preschool through fifth grade. Summer camps are offered for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
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Imagination Stage
Location(s): Bethesda
Imagination Stage offers a full range of inclusive theater opportunities for kids of all ages. Productions run year-round in both the Lerner Family Theater and the Reeve Studio Theater with performances for targeted age groups beginning at 1. Summer camps are offered in 1 to 4 week increments for kids ages 3.5 and up. A variety of classes are offered beginning at age 1.
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Drama Kids International
Location(s): Brookeville
DKI is a nationwide program offering after-school and summer drama programming for students. The East Montgomery County franchise offers once-per-week classes in the evening at a few elementary school locations in the county as well as half-day and full-day summer camps.
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Olney Theater Center
Location(s): Olney
Olney Theater Center stages full seasonal productions year-round and is home to the National Players. In the summer, the center offers two programs for children. Olney Theater Summer Stock is a theater-arts program for children in grades 4-6. The summer Musical Theater Intensive offers musical theater instruction for students in grades 7-9.
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Silver Spring Stage
Location(s): Silver Spring
Silver Spring Stage is an all-volunteer community theater that puts on seven productions per year. Some of these productions offer roles for children. All roles are open for audition, there is a mailing list to join to stay up to date on auditions for future productions.
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Ovations Theater
Location(s): Gaithersburg
Ovations Theater is an arts education center that offers full-scale productions, masterclasses, and workshops every season. The Standing O performance ensemble offers training and performance opportunities for kids in grades 4-9. Their junior summer intensive is a two-week musical theater workshop for kids in grades 3-10 of all experience levels.