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The Academy for the Performing Arts

Mission

To provide talented high school juniors and seniors with a joyful, challenging and inspiring training experience in the theatre; an educational and performance-based experience that builds confidence, courage and mastery in creative self expression preparing students for high-level college and professional opportunities.

Academy Goals

  • To provide a comprehensive, pre-professional course of study in all aspects theatre, from literature, theatre technique and history to design and technical theatre, to acting and actual performance.
     

  • To create 7 or 8 fully mounted productions with challenging performance and technical theatre opportunities - including classical, restoration, modern European theatre, American theatre and musical theatre.  
     

  • To provide professional, visionary leadership professional theatre men and women with outstanding credentials.  This program is not a DRAMA class.  It is college preparatory professional training.
     

  • Prepare students for post secondary education in the performing arts and related subjects; assisting with audition, contact, interview support and professional guidance in selecting educational and career opportunities.
     

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Day to Day

The Academy has two sessions each day:  Morning and Afternoon.  Juniors are automatically scheduled for the morning and seniors for the afternoon:


7:30 - 9:45 am - Junior Academy

12:45 - 2:20  pm - Senior Academy

3:30-7:30 pm - Weekday production rehearsals (subject to change) + some weekend afternoon rehearsals

Productions

The Academy produces 7-8 productions each year. Most of our productions are rehearsed outside of school hours. Generally, we rehearse weekdays from 3:30-7:30 and one weekend afternoon. This schedule is subject to change based on director and student schedule restraints.

Since 2008, The Academy has produced over 100 plays and musicals -

All cast from the acting and tech students at the Academy.

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The  Academy for the Performing Arts is a college preparatory program. About 65% of our students go on to study theatre in its various forms, both onstage and offstage, while most other students go on to college to study other disciplines. The training the Academy students receive in their two years here sharpens their competitive edge and as such they are far more prepared than many of their peers as they seek college enrollment.

 

Our students have proven this repeatedly by earning large scholarships - largely based on their academic merit and/or talent. For the past 13 years, Academy students have averaged a little bit more than $3,200,000.00 in scholarship offers annually.  The senior class represents between 30 and 35 students. The 2020-2021 graduating class received more than $4,200,000.00 in scholarship offers.

College Preparation

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