A Noise Within

This summer, stay active and prevent summer learning loss while having fun at one of the country’s most respected repertory theatres!

It’s a great way to learn new skills and perform Shakespeare while making great new friends! Campers work with professional artists and technicians to gain an appreciation for Shakespeare’s verse, along with a unique exposure to a variety of classic comedies, tragedies, and history plays. This five-week program – designed for ages 6-18 – challenges young artists to be scholars and performers of The Bard: enhancing acting and public speaking skills, building self-confidence on the stage, and gaining experience in the crafts of the theatre.

Students will focus on:

Acting
Stage Combat
Mask Work
Voice
Movement
Stagecraft and Design

Shakespeare for HomeSchoolers
For the budding performer (ages 10-18), A Noise Within offers courses especially for homeschoolers that focus on intensive acting techniques and scene study from a Shakespeare play. Course covers basic textual analysis including scansion. Students will use voice and improvisation techniques to bring their characters to life! This course will culminate in an exciting performance for family and friends.

Young Actor's Workshop
This enthralling course is designed to give budding actors the tools to generate authentic connections to dramatic texts, and to create believable and emotionally rich characters. Young Actor’s Workshop (YAW) covers the basic foundations of acting, including given circumstances, objectives, sense memory and recall, and how to effectively use improvisation and pantomime.

Participants in YAW are assigned scene work and improvisational exercises, and the course culminates in a presentation of memorized monologues or scenes. YAW incorporates multiple age levels in order to provide the necessary structure in order to provide students the opportunity to learn from each other’s work. This course is a foundation for the study of acting, and it is expected that the course will be repeated several times in order to deepen the understanding of acting technique and to delve more deeply into scene work.

Teen Monologue Intensive
Master your monologue and rock your audition in this fun and supportive class! A Noise Within’s teen monologue class is the perfect springboard to top conservatory and university drama programs. Each participant will rehearse two contrasting monologues–one contemporary and one classical. High school juniors and seniors learn insiders’ techniques from staff at California’s most respected classic repertory theatre—and enter the audition world with a huge competitive advantage.

First Stage
A Noise Within is pleased to announce an all-new program for the youngest actors – First Stage!

Specially designed for 6-9 year olds, this 8 week program teaches confidence, camaraderie, and acting craft. Ours is the only youth program in Southern California taught by resident artists of a nationally known repertory theatre. Whether your child is a budding actor or seeks an after-school program that builds buds, First Stage is "where you get to be really creative and let your imagination go wild!” (Lucy, a camper in 2014)

In First Stage, kids will:

Learn the connection between text and performance
Act in a variety of plays – comedies and drama both!
Gain confidence and learn teamwork

The INsiders

Interactive, intimate, and intensely engaging. The INsiders is a unique club for our most literary-minded patrons: the perfect way to exchange ideas on our plays while—yes!—supporting our theatre at the same time.

INSIGHT
INsiders come together on select Tuesday evenings for lively discussions revolving around each of the season’s plays. You’ll enjoy refreshments and meet new friends as guest scholars offer fresh perspectives on the season’s plays. Membership includes a copy of the play script to read and review!

INSPIRE
Participate in two exciting, specialized workshops throughout the season! INsiders might…

Walk through the Designer Process
Examine a Playwright’s Past
Explore the realms of World Drama

Adult Classes
-Voice for Actors
-Acting Shakespeare Scenes and monologues
-British Dialect Intensive

Established in Fall 2014, this council consists of high school students around the Pasadena and LA areas who come together with the like-minded goal of learning more about a professional theater. Free membership is open to Sophomore-Senior aged students. Being a part of A Noise Within’s Young Adult Council (YAC) allows students to:

Read and see every show in the rep season.
Attend informational sessions and master classes with Resident Artists and guest artists.
Meet monthly to discuss plays and theatre.
Plan and attend fun events.
Members are encouraged to act as ambassadors of A Noise Within and expected to attend productions at other professional theatres throughout the LA and Pasadena area.

Noise Now is an opportunity to expand our family by engaging with our neighboring communities and peer organizations. Noise Now is more than an audience development initiative – it is a commitment to being a great neighbor, to building relationships with audiences and artists, and to demonstrating our eagerness to listen well and respond courageously.

Noise Now is an enhanced commitment to being of service to all audiences. We aim to illuminate and activate underrepresented populations, communities of color, young people, and all others not equitably represented at the theatre. In addition, we are activating non-traditional or underutilized spaces throughout the A Noise Within campus. We are excited to challenge ourselves, identify how disruptive we can push to be, and commit to making decisions “with” – as opposed to “for” – our audiences.

By expanding our artistry to include dance, music, art installations, non-traditional theatre and beyond, we are opening our home to audiences new to theatre and new to us, in addition to facilitating work that illuminates overlap between our mission and the missions of our collaborators.

By hosting increasingly inclusive events and pursuing partnerships with peer organizations, we aim to expand our reach and diversify our offerings. This is an opportunity to listen to our neighbors, identify who’s not in the room, and hold ourselves accountable to being flexible and working differently where appropriate.

Join us as we re-introduce ourselves, as we go outside our comfort zone, and as we ask how we can be of service to our neighborhood.