RISE Cabaret was designed to take your artists’ gifts to the next level. In this 7 week workshop style course, students will develop their technical performance skills by studying musicals and musical songs selections from the contemporary cannon of musical theater.

RISE Youth Theatre

We are proud to offer acting classes to help students improve their acting skills and technique!

For our beginner students we have Introduction to Acting for ages 7-12 and for our intermediate to advanced students we have Acting I for ages 9-14.

Our acting classes utilize games and high-energy activities to teach concepts that are integral to acting on the stage such as stagecraft, imagination & sensory work, voice work, body & spatial awareness, blocking & body positions, viewpoints & story structure, emotion work, character & play, movement, stage pictures, and improvisation.

For students looking to truly hone their acting skills, we provide one-on-one acting lessons with our Theatre Program Director, Shenyse Harris.

Shenyse is a Houston, New York-based actress, acting coach, and producer. She holds a master’s degree in Acting from Brown University and has been working professionally in New York and Atlanta since 2018.

Some of her credits include CBS Blue Bloods, Verizon, Dallas Theatre Center, Trinity Repertory, Virginia Stage Company.

Private acting lessons allow students to further develop their technique and see much quicker improvement, especially when focusing on specific areas of their craft. Lessons are offered on a semester-basis and meet weekly.

Our Imagine & Play class helps students ages 4-6 years old develop receptive and expressive communication skills through imagination and play! In this fun and high energy class, students will explore curiosity, create crafts and express themselves through dramatic play, song and dance.

Specific skills & techniques include:

• Imagination exploration: Learn how to access your imagination through role playing and games.
• Imitation and Recreation: Explore and recreate physical behavior, and movement
• Sound imitation: Listen and reproduce sound to develop receptive communication skills.
• Body awareness: Learn how to use the body in relation to other people in space.
• Expressive Movement: Learn how to use your body to make shape, gestures, pictures and stories.
• Dramatic Play: Learn how to use movement, physical gestures and facial expressions to create a story.

We offer 3 spacious studios for our musical theatre students to learn and prepare for productions:

• Studio A is 1,500 sq. ft.
• Studio B is 1,200 sq. ft.
• Studio C is 600 sq. ft.

All of our studios feature high ceilings, mirrored walls, and in-wall speaker systems. Studios A & B are separated by a floor-to-ceiling acoustical floating partition that allows the studios to open up into one large performance space for in-house productions complete with theatre curtains and premier theatre lighting.

Studio C is a smaller, fully-mirrored space ideal for our acting classes.