The 2025 Workshop is scheduled for July 6 - 25, 2026 

with performances on July 24 and 25.

Registration is open!

Register now for the 2026 workshop and 

get 33% off through April 13, 2026!

Morning: Musical

Afternoon Week 1: Technical Theatre

Afternoon Week 2: Technical Theatre

This year we will offer a 3 week workshop to produce a musical in the morning. We will also offer two one-week afternoon workshops focused on technical theatre and producing the morning musical!  

The Kathie Burgin Children's Theatre Workshop is 

for rising 3rd grade - rising 9th grade students.   

Weeks 1 - 3 (July 7 - 26)

9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Full Production - $180 per child registered

We will work in the mornings to produce a musical!  Participants will memorize lines, learn blocking and choreography, and perform a show on July 26 and 27, 2022.

Week 1 (July 7 - 11) and Week 2 (July 14 - 18) 

1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Technical Theatre Workshops - $60/week per child registered

Without the crew working hard backstage, there would never be a show.  This workshop will go over several different jobs that take place behind the scenes including set design, sound design, light design, and costume design. 

NOTE: Technical Theatre Students need to bring a set of paint clothes to change into that they don't mind getting dirty.

ALL OF IT: $250

Includes: Registration for the production of the musical and the afternoon workshops during the first two weeks.

In 1990, Kathie Burgin had a vision to create a Children’s Workshop Theater during the summer vacation months.  She was looking for a Children’s Theater opportunity for her daughter, Quinn.  The closest Children’s Theater was located in Charlotte.  Many students who came through Shelby High Theatre started in the children’s theater workshop.  

Now named in her memory, the Kathie Burgin Children’s Workshop Theater is the 2nd longest running children’s theater in North Carolina. It is held each summer in Malcolm Brown Auditorium at Shelby High School.  The workshop offers kids from across Cleveland County and its neighbors the opportunity to learn the art of theatre.  By performing onstage in a musical production, kids overcome shyness, learn to accept constructive criticism, and build confidence.  They also make friends and with those friends learn what it takes to create something bigger and more complex than anything they could create alone.  

Each year, The Kathie Burgin Children's Theatre Workshop offers children in rising 3rd through 9th grades the opportunity to produce a musical in three weeks at the end of July.  They can also sign up to learn about the different areas of technical theatre in two one-week sessions held in the afternoon during the first two weeks of the workshop.  Afternoon workshops can be done with the morning musical or separately.