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The Music Theatre Company, Highland Park’s critically-acclaimed professional theatre, is pleased to announce the launch of The Academy at The Music Theatre Company, an expanded educational wing of TMTC. The Academy, will be offering:
- Classes for students 2nd grade through college
- Academy Youth Productions
- The Young Artists’ Program
The Academy at The Music Theatre Company seeks to empower young artists with writing, collaboration and performance skills taught by theatre professionals and educators in a supportive and encouraging environment. Our students will learn how to perform on the professional stage while building self-esteem and developing the courage to take risks.
We hope to see you this fall!
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Jacob Watson
Program Director
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Jacob Watson is a Chicago-based teaching artist, director and designer, who has developed curriculum for numerous arts organizations including Goodman Theatre, Redmoon, Albany Park Theatre Project, Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University, Urban Gateways, and Dream Big Performing Arts Workshop. He recently directed The Musical Adventures of Tom Sawyer at Metropolis Performing Arts in Arlington Heights, with a cast of students ranging from grades K-12. Jacob has also worked for several years as the Arts Education Consultant at Creative Directions, where he facilitates programs to integrate the arts into schools nationwide. Jacob began collaborating with The Music Theatre Company in 2010 when he served as set designer for the Young Artists' Program production of happyfoods. Jacob holds a B.A. in Theatre from Northwestern University, where he received the Aurand Harris Award for Excellence in Children’s Theatre.
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Our Mission:
The Academy at TMTC furthers The Company mission of expanding the musical theatre canon by empowering young people as future leaders of the field. The Academy recognizes musical theatre as a hybrid art form, and strives to engage young people as multi-faceted musical theatre artists who understand the way stories are made, shared, and understood.
The Academy tasks young participants to work together as collaborators, performers, designers, directors, choreographers, musicians, and storytellers, inviting them to engage with the complexity of the art form as artists – creating, shaping, and experimenting.
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Click HERE to download a registration form!
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