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What is kids acting? These acting classes for 5-9-year-olds cover beginning-intermediate acting classes as well as our acting performance.
Why This Program? Whether this is your child's first introduction to acting or they've done it before, these programs strive to give kids a secure, confident, and joyful relationship with acting.
Why is it helpful: Acting is invaluable for fostering a variety of life skills, including self-confidence, persistence, teamwork, and creativity. We learn to work together, how to give and take, and how to share our ideas in front of others. We also experience the joy of seeing these creative ideas come to life.
What will we do? We begin classes with a warm-up to get us used to the space and each other. We learn performance vocabulary, play focus games, and learn how to access and portray our emotions through fun and silly exploratory games and scenes.
Highlights: Fun, low pressure, and imaginative. I love this age group because they are so imaginative, ready to jump into a made-up world, and eager to create.
Curriculum, Objectives and Outcomes
Curriculum, Objectives and Outcomes
Overall:
What is acting, and how do we use our imaginations?
The anatomy of a stage, eg, ‘upstage’, ‘downstage', ‘stage left’, a set’, ‘costume’, etc.
The joy of performance as ‘play’.
Some basic theatre and screen vocab, eg, ‘script’, ‘actor’, ‘director’, ’ blocking’, ‘close up’, ‘stage directions’, ‘stage manager’, etc.
Character types, and how to show emotions, such as ‘sad ', ‘happy’, ‘scared’, and ‘mad’.
Learn how to collaborate and work together to create scenes, where they listen to and value each other’s input.
Confidence in their own creativity, imagination, and ability to work with others collaboratively.
Understanding of the elements of a script and character development outside of the scene, eg, where were they before the scene? What would their favorite food be?
Finding joy in the “curiosity, not expectation” of acting, and knowing part of theatre is making mistakes and being bold in our choices, even if we end up being redirected by a director.
Ability to gently evaluate and critique peers and oneself, to foster critical thinking, an artistic eye, and ever-developing artists and performers.
Specific to the Acting Class:
Intro to Animal Studies, a method of using the ways animals move to inform our character’s physicality.
Specific to the Performance Class:
How to learn lines, even if we aren’t confident readers.
Confidence in embodying a character in front of an audience,
Classes
Classes
✨Fall Classes:✨
Intro to Acting:
"Dive into the world of acting with games, short story creation, and acting exercises. -An acting overview".
WEDNESDAYS, @ Thousand Oaks Old Meadows Center.
TIME: 3:00-3:55 pm | AGES: 5-9 | LENGTH: 6 weeks | DATE: November 5 - December 17, 2025. | PRICE: $192
FRIDAY @ Ventura, Date and time TBA.
✨Winter Classes: ✨
Acting Performance:
"Work together to develop a mini showcase! Learn acting through performance, culminating in a mini-showcase. We’ll play theatre games, learn how to embody characters, and work together to put on a performance".
WEDNESDAY @ Thousand Oaks Old Meadows Center
TIME: 3:00-4:15 pm | AGES: 5-9 | LENGTH: 8 weeks | DATE: January 14 - March 5, 2026. | PRICE: $200
FRIDAY @ Ventura, Date and time TBA.
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