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Theatre Workshops for Children

Drama and theatre classes offered in the ASU Herberger College of the Arts serve approximately 60-75 children every academic school year with on-campus summer camp programming. The classes tap into the children's natural instincts of pretend play to develop their creativity, self-esteem and communication skills. Professor Johnny Saldaña, program administrator, leads a teaching cadre of facilitators who are graduate students in ASU’s Herberger College School of Theatre and Film internationally recognized theatre for youth program. Classes for youth serve as an authentic lab for all to teach and learn the art of improvisational drama and theatre.

For more than 25 years, ASU has provided children dramatic experiences ranging from puppetry to storytelling, from studies about Native American legends to the theatre of Japan, and from dramatizations about children of the Holocaust to contemporary fiction about American politics. Fun and engaging, provocative and meaningful, drama and theatre classes strive to help children and young people express their creative spirits.