Fostering Self-Confidence, Creativity, and
A Love of Theater Arts.
Landrum Stage Acting classes for kids give students every opportunity to develop their very own Acting style with an incredible staff of industry professionals that have worked on and off Broadway, in National TV Dramas and Sitcoms, Movies, TV Commercials, Summer Stock Theater and more.
Our Instructors are members of Actors Equity, SAG, and AFTRA. They are extremely patient and kind and ready to help your child build their Acting skills one step at a time in a positive, judgment-free zone.
We give all our students an outlet for self-expression where they can be comfortable being that “creative kid” among other like-minded students in our program.
Our Stage Acting classes and descriptions are listed below; students interested in screen acting should see our On Camera classes.
From Learning to Performing
Each Acting class begins with basic Acting techniques; how much depends on the age of the student.
A younger child will do great with simple role-playing and Theater games. An older child can be introduced to basic acting techniques like short term objectives or asking questions “who, what, where and when” while reading a scene.
The process that a student goes through from their first Acting class to the actual performance is where all the fun is generated.
All of our students and staff members are involved in the process of producing the entire play:
All shows are professionally showcased in either the Landrum Showcase Theater or at our renowned year-end Recital at Queens College.
It is all part of a wonderful collaborative effort from everyone involved including our wonderful Landrum parents.
All of our Acting students will get a chance to be part of a performance; see tabs below for class descriptions as well as times/places for performances.
To register or find out more about Acting Classes for kids, please call (718) 767-9787 or send us a message and we will get back to you promptly.
Encourages the development of confidence, public speaking, and social skills through creative play, costuming, and story-telling. Students become comfortable expressing character emotions on stage learning dialogue, patients, and timing through:
- Improvisation games
- Creating and developing characters
- Creative movement and expression
- Memorizing and reciting stories
- Sing-Alongs
- Puppets, ventriloquism, and an array of costumes and props are all utilized to aide students to visualize: “If I were a pirate how would I walk and talk?” “If I were a Princess what would it be like to live in a castle?”
Two performances in the Landrum Showcase Theater; one in December, one in June.
Introductory Acting for girls and boys 6 to 8.
Builds confidence and social skills through creative play, costuming, and story-telling.
This type of dramatic play helps students express emotions onstage learning dialogue, patience, and timing, as well as improves public speaking and general communication skills.
- Improvisation games geared to older children are used here
- Creating and developing characters that are more complex
- Creative movement and expression that is more challenging
- Memorizing and reciting stories that contain a “cooler,” older, more complex story line
- Songs are taught with music accompaniment
For girls and boys ages 8 to 18.
Providing multiple acting and stage performance techniques. Great for perfecting on stage performances as well as auditions. All students will develop skills that build self-esteem and confidence which will have a positive life-long affect the way they communicate with others.
- Improvisation games
- The concept of going “in” and “out” of character
- Body language (use of hand gestures, expressions, and emotions to make a performance natural, and believable, to the audience)
- Learning the many different fields in the world of theater and film
- Memorizing and performing monologues
- Performing alongside other classmates and creating scenes using ideas and input from peers
To help the aspiring Comedian in creating the “perfect joke” and using body language and speech deliverance to make a funny joke even funnier!
- The Art of Comedy – What is Comedy?
- Taught by professional Comedians
- Comedic Music and Song (the incorporation of music in Comedic performance)
- Improvisation
- Sketch writing and performance
- On-stage Comedy story telling
Two performances in the Landrum Showcase Theater; one in December, one in June.
To register or find out more about Acting Classes for kids, please call (718) 767-9787 or send us a message and we will get back to you promptly.
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