• Writer’s applications due: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
• Writer’s Interviews: Friday, October 8 and Wednesday, October 13, 2021
• October-December 2021: Writers meet two-three times a week.
• January 2022: Actor Auditions.
• January-February 2022: Writers meet three-four times a week.
• March 2022: Writers meet five-six times a week, attending actor and writer rehearsals.
• End of March 2022: performances of final show.

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Village Theatre’s generous tuition assistance program ensures that everyone can participate regardless of financial circumstances. We believe that experiential learning in theatre arts is a powerful tool for building essential life and career skills including critical thinking, concentration, collaboration, discipline, communication, and creativity.

Tuition for the 2021–2022 KIDSTAGE Originals writing program is $750. Financial assistance is available.

KIDSTAGE Originals is an original musical project created by emerging theatre artists. Students generate their own original material under the mentorship and guidance of a professional writing, composing, and directing team.

Once the writing team has a completed script, student actors are added to the process and the show is shared with an audience for feedback regarding their script and story. This process is designed to teach students about process of creating a show from script to stage, and provide students the life skills of collaboration, compromise, communication of ideas, and receiving critical responses to creative endeavors, among many others.

KIDSTAGE Originals productions are written by, for, and about teens, and can address some of the most important issues to teens today. Past KIDSTAGE Originals shows include: Last Exit, In Your Eyes, Save As…, Hot Mess, Playing Fair, This is What They Tell Me, Sincerely Yours, Out of Bounds, and All That Glitters – A Rock Legend.