✷ ✷ ✷ RESOURCES FOR YOUNG ACTORS✷ ✷ ✷
✷ ✷ ✷ RESOURCES FOR YOUNG ACTORS✷ ✷ ✷
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FALL PROGRAMMING
FALL PROGRAMMING
These theatres and organizations all offer workshops, classes, and summer camps for young artists and actors. You can find a list of theatres that put on full productions that prioritize youth theatre here.
What: Arlington Children’s Theatre offers classes on improv, stage combat, audition techniques, and physical comedy. They also offer headshot clinics.
Where: Arlington, MA
Ages: 10+
For: Actors/Performers
What: Boxcar Stage Company is offering a range of Fall workshops, including Musical Theatre Dance, Acting a Song, and more!
Where: Arlington, MA
Ages: 7-18
For: Actors/Performers
Burlington Players Children's Theater Workshops
What: Burlington Players is offering a range of Fall workshops, including Intro to Theatre I & II, Teen Theatre, and Acting and Performance Technique for Singers
Where: Burlington, MA
Ages: 10+
For: Actors/Performers
Greater Boston Stage Company’s Young Company
What: Greater Boston Stage Company’s year-round theatre education program for students offering artistic training and performance opportunities in a professional setting. Summer workshops, classes, shows, voice lessons and more!
Where: Stoneham, MA
Ages: 6-18
For: Actors/Performers
Natick Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA)
What: Natick Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) is a non-profit committed to helping performers, of all ages, find a creative outlet in the Boston suburbs.
Where: Natick, MA
Ages: 11-16
For: Actors/Performers
What: Studio Playground fosters individual growth for children in our community by using the performing arts to create social change. They also run a summer camp in Northern Rhode Island.
Where: Providence, RI
Ages: 4-17
For: Actors/Performers
Watertown Children’s Theatre at the Mosesian Center for the Arts
What: Through WCT programming, the Mosesian Center for the Arts provides a range of offerings from musicals and plays, to after-school and vacation programs, and year-round classes and weekend workshops.
Where: Watertown, MA
Ages: 6-18
For: Actors/Performers Designers Technicians Stage Managers
Wheelock Family Theatre Education Programming
What: Wheelock Family Theatre’s educational program is designed intentionally to provide opportunities for students of different ages and stages to grow both theatre skills and life skills. Students are invited to go deeper within a particular series and also to broaden their experience by taking classes across three series: Acting, Musical Theatre and Design.
Where: Boston. MA
Ages: 5-18
For: Actors/Performers Designers Technicians Stage Managers
ALL PROGRAMS, CLASSES, AND CAMPS
ALL PROGRAMS, CLASSES, AND CAMPS
These theatres and organizations all offer workshops, classes, and summer camps for young artists and actors. You can find a list of theatres that put on full productions that prioritize youth theatre here.
Actors’ Shakespeare Project | Summer Breakspeare Camp
What: Young actors will explore and rehearse a Shakespeare play, led by professional actors and teaching artists from Actors’ Shakespeare Project.
Where: Watertown, MA
Ages: 8-12
For: Actors/Performers Designers
Boston Conservatory at Berklee Youth Musical Theatre Summer Program
What: Musical Theatre program that helps students develop foundational skills to become collaborative performers.
Where: Boston, MA
Ages: 12-14
For: Actors/Performers
What: Creative Arts introduces younger children to the basic principles of visual and performing arts in a safe, non-competitive environment. Through daily hands-on workshops in music, art, dance, and drama, each child will discover and strengthen their own powers of imaginative self-expression.
Where: Medford, MA
Ages: 7-12
For: Actors/Performers
Greater Boston Stage Company’s Young Company
What: Greater Boston Stage Company’s year-round theatre education program for students offering artistic training and performance opportunities in a professional setting. Summer workshops, classes, shows, voice lessons and more!
Where: Stoneham, MA
Ages: 6-18
For: Actors/Performers
What: Magic Circle Theater is New England’s oldest theater by and for children. Students choose between two tracks: Performance Track and Technical Theatre Track.
Where: Medford, MA
Ages: 11-16
For: Actors/Performers Designers Technicians Stage Managers
Natick Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA)
What: Natick Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) is a non-profit committed to helping performers, of all ages, find a creative outlet in the Boston suburbs.
Where: Natick, MA
Ages: 11-16
For: Actors/Performers
North Shore Children’s Theatre
What: North Shore Children's Theatre is dedicated to producing high-quality theatrical programming that encourages children to explore, create and inspire. They run multiple shows and classes during the summer.
Where: Marblehead, MA
Ages: 3-18
For: Actors/Performers
Reagle Music Theatre Educational Programming
What: Reagle Music Theatre is committed to providing accessible, fun, and inclusive training for budding actors, singers, and dancers, as well as aspiring theatre professionals. Throughout the year, we offer a variety of workshops and masterclasses for students of all ages and abilities to hone their skills, explore their potential, and find their inner confidence.
Where: Waltham, MA
Ages: 8-18
For: Actors/Performers Designers Technicians Stage Managers
What: Studio Playground fosters individual growth for children in our community by using the performing arts to create social change. They also run a summer camp in Northern Rhode Island.
Where: Providence, RI
Ages: 4-17
For: Actors/Performers
Watertown Children’s Theatre at the Mosesian Center for the Arts
What: Through WCT programming, the Mosesian Center for the Arts provides a range of offerings from musicals and plays, to after-school and vacation programs, and year-round classes and weekend workshops.
Where: Watertown, MA
Ages: 6-18
For: Actors/Performers Designers Technicians Stage Managers
What: Weston Drama Workshop is a nonprofit youth theater organization established to provide participants an extraordinary education in and appreciation of live theater. WDW also offers a musical theater program for middle school students and a theater program for young audiences. Workshops are available throughout the summer.
Where: Weston, MA
Ages: 5-23
For: Actors/Performers Designers
Wheelock Family Theatre Summer Education Programming
What: Wheelock Family Theatre’s educational program is designed intentionally to provide opportunities for students of different ages and stages to grow both theatre skills and life skills. Students are invited to go deeper within a particular series and also to broaden their experience by taking classes across three series: Acting, Musical Theatre and Design.
Where: Boston. MA
Ages: 5-18
For: Actors/Performers Designers Technicians Stage Managers
CASTING/SUBMISSIONS
CASTING/SUBMISSIONS
Andrew Wilson Talent Agency Submissions
What: Andrew Wilson Talent Agency accepts youth talent submissions. Find more information in the link above.
Where:
Ages: Under 21
For: Actors/Performers
WHO ARE THESE RESOURCES FOR?
WHO ARE THESE RESOURCES FOR?
Actors/Performers/Dancers
Administrators
Educators
Stage Managers/Production Managers/Designers/Technicians
All Theatre Artists
Intimacy/Movement/Fight Directors
Playwrights/Dramaturgs
Directors/Producers/Casting Directors/Choreographers
Music Directors/Musicians
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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✷ ✷ ✷ BOSTON THEATRE RESOURCE ROUND-UP ✷ ✷ ✷
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All resources are listed alphabetically and we’ve noted the ones that are specific to the Greater Boston Area (GBA).
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All resources are listed alphabetically and we’ve noted the ones that are specific to the Greater Boston Area (GBA).
Please follow our Instagram for the most up-to-date resources. You can find an downloadable version of this resource list here.
This page is updated weekly on Tuesdays, ✷ denotes a new resource
SUBMIT COMMUNITY RESOURCES HERE
✷ This page was last updated on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 ✷
✷ This page was last updated on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 ✷
Resource Round-Up is curated by Shira Helena Gitlin, along with the BATA Leadership team.
This is a living document and we are experimenting! Have feedback? Send us an email!
Resource Round-Up is curated by Shira Helena Gitlin, along with the BATA Leadership team.
This is a living document and we are experimenting! Have feedback? Send us an email!
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