North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theater is a community-based theater that produces a full season of shows and offers camps and acting classes. The performing arts center offers child, teen and adult acting classes in imagination theater, adult improvisation, acting, voice, troupe and glee club. All classes aim to teach students the fundamentals of acting principles and techniques as well as theater production. Classes for beginners are held weekdays in the evening and are open to everyone, while troupe membership is by audition only. The center also runs summer day camps for school-age children and a Shakespeare for Teens class.
Raleigh Little Theater in a non-profit community organization that produces shows and offers acting classes to both children and adults. The company's youth education program is a year-round program that educates children ages four to 18 about the performing arts through workshops, classes and summer camps. Youth classes include performance skills, acting for the camera and improvisation. The program's one or two week summer camps include physical performance, comedic performance and an intensive teen conservatory. Adult classes are held in the evening and include auditioning class, ensemble playwriting and the character's body.
Burning Coal Theater is an avant-garde theater group in Raleigh. The company offers evening acting classes in the Uta Hagen acting method and Shakespeare. The classes are open to both professionals and amateurs. The company also offers study opportunities for children and teens including a summer conservatory and its Teatro workshop. The summer conservatory is a three-week program that emphasizes different approaches to theater and features guest lecturers from around the country to expose students to varied acting techniques.
The Justice Theater Project is an activist theater company that uses the performing arts to draw attention to underrepresented people and issues. The company runs a performing arts summer series day camp open to children in grades two through eight. The three-week camp is open to beginners and includes study of acting, stage and body movement, yoga, set design, production and dance. The camp culminates with a production of a children's play with the students providing both the on-stage and backstage talent.
North Carolina Theater Conservatory offers acting classes for children of varying skill levels. The conservatory offers beginner through advanced acting classes for all ages as well as advanced classes for teens. The advanced college preparatory class is designed for high school sophomores and above planning to pursuit a bachelor's of fine arts in theater. The class allows students to prepare and audition in front of acceptance committees and get valuable practice and feedback. Students may also attend classes in improvisation, character development and scene study. The conservatory has a beginner's class for adults that gives them a basic introduction to scene study and communication on stage.