KCPT Youth Programs
winter 2025 | jan 6th – feb 13th
Welcome to KCPT's Professional Theater Training for youth! We offer theater classes and workshops for all ages and skill levels. Our WINTER SESSION begins JAN 2024 and we are excited to see returning and new students back on "the stage."
We will still be holding class on January 20th, MLK Day.
Theatre Adventure Club
✓ Beginners & Previous Students
Channel your creativity into theatrical play!
Welcome explorers to Theater Adventure Club!
In this class, students begin foundational theatre techniques through games and exercises, while exploring self-expression and creative play.
This class is designed as an introductory course for students who have perhaps expressed an interest in theatre, but have yet to try it! These classes are great for building confidence and learning important social skills. Get ready to laugh, play, move, and explore characters!
There will be a showcase on the last day of class for family and friends, 15 minutes before the end of class.
This class is recommended as a prerequisite for Drama Fundamentals.
Class limited to 15 students.
Grades 3-6
jan 6th- feb 10th, 2025
Mondays
3:30pm - 4:45pm
Chimacum
Grades 1-2
jan 7th - feb 11th, 2025
Tuesdays
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Port Townsend
Full & partial scholarships are available by request, please visit our Scholarship + Financial Aid Request page.
Drama Fundamentals
Are you ready to act? Students explore the fundamentals of drama and develop the building blocks of character and storytelling through a theatrical lens. While continuing their foundational techniques they learned in Theatre Adventure Club or previous classes, Drama Fundamentals encourages students to keep diving in! Build characters, begin scene work, explore improvisation, and keep the magic of ensemble building.
There will be a showcase on the last day of class for family and friends, 15 minutes before the end of class.
This course is great for new students and returning students who want to focus on scene work and improvisation. Class limited to 15 students.
Grades 3-5
jan 9th - feb 13th, 2025
Thursdays
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Port Townsend
Full & partial scholarships available by request, please visit our Scholarship + Financial Aid Request page.
Theatre Academy
Theatre Academy is an advanced class for returning students. The focus of this class evolves every session to provide students with new theatre techniques to expand their artistic tool box. The curriculum is customized to reflect the student’s personal interests and skills. Previous focuses have been audition technique, musical theatre, stage combat, and physical theatre.
There will be a showcase on the last day of class for family and friends, 15 minutes before the end of class.
Registration to class upon approval of instructor.
Grades 6-9
jan 7th - feb 11th, 2025
Tuesdays
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Port Townsend
Full & partial scholarships are available by request, please visit our Scholarship + Financial Aid Request page.
Youth Company
Channel your creativity to dramatic effect! This course is designed for teens who are in High School. Plus: Hone various theatre techniques from improvisation, physical and vocal, mime, combat, and scene work. This company of actors partake in a mix of acting classes, job skill training, networking and mentorship with professionals, plus performance opportunities at the theatre. Classes meet throughout the school year. Participants also receive a free ticket to a designated evening performance of each KCPT mainstage show.
Grades 9-12
jan 9th - feb 13th, 2025
Thursdays
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Port Townsend
Full & partial scholarships are available by request, please visit our Scholarship + Financial Aid Request page.
Meet Our Instructors
Brendan Chambers holds a BFA in Acting from Carnegie Melon University and graduated with a Master’s degree in Educational Theater from New York University. He has worked with KCPT for over five years as a key artistic staff member. He has appeared in nearly a dozen productions, directed several mainstage shows, and led a variety of educational programs. In 2019 Brendan was promoted to Key City Public Theatre's Artistic Associate.
Brendan Chambers
Bry Kifilo
BRY KIFOLO was an assistant instructor during summer workshops at Key City Public Theatre in 2018 and 2019 before being offered a position as a teaching assistant at Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. During her time at BTE, she focused on cultivating and implementing a yearlong theater education curriculum for the North Central Secure Treatment Unit School. Every week she led classes for incarcerated young women, ages 12 to 20, teaching them various aspects of theater. Bry also created and taught workshops, classes, and residencies in central Pennsylvania high schools. The focus of these classes ranged from directing and script writing to monologue and audition techniques, as well as costume design, set design, and many other facets of theater. As a teaching artist, she has worked with students aged 4 to 21 years old. During the pandemic, Bry was still able to teach classes through Zoom, connecting with a wide range of students and inviting them into the world of theater.
Kat Agudo
Kat Agudo holds a BA in English and Anthropology with a certificate in Italian Studies from Rome, Italy and The University of Texas at Austin. They graduated with a Master’s degree in Playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Awards include Semi-Finalist status for Theatre Mu Tang Clan, The Women’s Playwright Center at Speranza, and Emerson Stage NewFest. 2022 Residencies include: Centrum Arts in Port Townsend, WA and Visual Muze (West Harlem Arts Fund) at Governor's Island, NYC. Recent publications include Pile Press, Lucky Jefferson, and Poet’s Choice. They seek to translate poetic narratives about mental health, Asian-American experiences, LGBTQ representation, and social media culture to the stage by confronting trauma with comedy.
Anna Mae Beyer
ANNA MAE BEYER spent the past decade exploring & experiencing many forms of artistic expression, meditation, movement & healing. From the Operatic Stage to the Sound Alchemy Studio. From the realms of Theatre & Dance to those of Yoga, Somatics & Qigong. Today she holds certifications in Sound Healing//Sonic Massage, 5-Element Qigong, and Empowered Heart Intuitive Counsel & Group Facilitation. Originally trained in Classical Voice, Theatre & Dance, she continues to share her passion for music & the embodied arts through Transformative Sound Bath Immersions, Ritual Theatre Performance, Alchemical Songwriting, and her work as a Vocal Embodiment Coach.
Michelle Cesmat
MICHELLE CESMAT is Resident Scenic Artist for KCPT. Her work includes GUNMETAL BLUES, ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE, REDD, THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, WHAT THE DICKENS?!, LIVING INCOGNEGRO, and WILD MAN OF THE WYNOOCHEE. Michelle holds a BA from Western Washington University, Art Studio (major), Art History and Anthropology (double minor) and holds an Illustration Certificate. She is passionate about producing art, writing, culture, art history and exploring the outdoors. Michellecesmat.com
Margie McDonald
MARGIE MCDONALD was first introduced to theater design at KCPT in 2018 when she constructed a banyan tree from rope for Akuyoe Graham’s SPIRIT AWAKENING, a design she rebuilt in a larger version for the L.A.filming of SPIRIT AWAKENING in 2021. In 2019, Margie created the MEN ON BOATS set using cardboard and paint, and collaborated with poet Damond Arrindell for FROZEN BORDERS, a set that included tiny baby dolls that were released from columns of ice as it melted. Margie designed and constructed Multiverse, the wood wall in the KCPT lobby which was completed in the spring of ’22 immediately followed by designing the set for AROUND THE WORLD IN LESS THAN 80 DAYS and creating the wearable art costume pieces for NEW MOON: A DOG’S TALE and REDD. None of this would happen without help from many good friends.
Gabs Nathanson
Gabs Nathanson (they/she) was previously invited to perform the lead role in Key City Public Theater’s Redd in April of 2023 before being offered a teaching assistant position as a part of an apprenticeship with the theater. They started leading and teaching students in high school as assistant director and dance captain for their choir. From there she continued teaching and assisting directors within the UCSD Theatre and Dance Department for 3 years, including workshops reaching out to different high schools and teaching choreography. Gabs has also created a workshop designed to teach participants of all ages how to be mindful of their bodies during movement leading to a somatic approach towards all types of movement taught at Diversionary Theater. For the past year they have been a teaching artist with PLNU’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation: kNOw MORE Human Trafficking Prevention and awareness program using theater, improv, and group activities for children ages 11-17 all over San Diego County.
Locations & Covid Safety
Our Chimacum Sessions are held at the Chimacum Grange conveniently located across from the School.
Chimacum Grange
9572 Rhody Dr. Chimacum, WA 98325
We work with the school district to provide a safe and approved meeting point at the school where we then walk students across the street to The Grange. Details on this will be forthcoming.
Our Port Townsend Sessions are held at the Brigid's Loft (formerly Jefferson Community School) conveniently located downtown, 1.5 blocks from the Theater.
Brigid's Loft
280 Quincy St. Port Townsend, WA 98368
KCPT follows all current local and state guidelines regarding COVID-19 safety protocols and will provide updates and changes as necessary throughout our 6-week sessions.
Call our box office Thursday/Friday from 1 pm - 5 pm, (360) 385-5278
or email Brendan Chambers at brendan@keycitypublictheatre.org.
2022-2023 Education Sponsor
Our theater education programs are funded in part by a grant from Jefferson Community Foundation
