BERKELY PLAYHOUSE YOUTH PRODUCTIONS - Berkeley Playhouse Non Equity Auditions

About The Program
In addition to our Professional Season, Berkeley Playhouse produces several youth only productions a season. Our acclaimed programs gives talented students the opportunity to participate in full-scale, youth-only productions of the highest quality with some of the best professional directors, choreographers, and designers in the Bay Area. Cast members within The Imagination Players and TeenStage programs receive ongoing training in acting, voice, and movement! Need-based financial aid is available.
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An audition is required to be admitted into the program.? See below for audition information.
If you have participated in a Youth Production before, you do not need to audition again.
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Directed by William Hodgson & Rachel Robinson

Available for students in the Imagination Players program, grades 3-5 and 6-7. All aboard this hilarious journey of love-triangles, gangsters, tap-dancing sailors, and more. Anything Goes is a Broadway classic that provides incredible dance, acting, and vocal opportunities for all young artists. Don't miss your chance to pull out your dancing shoes, throw on a disguise, and join the fun!

Auditions have been completed for this production.

Directed by William Hodgson

Available for students in the Teen Stage program, grades 8-12. Winner of the Tony's Best Musical, Score, and Book, Avenue Q School Edition is a gut-busting comedy sure to challenge any teen artist. From Princeton, to Kate Monster, and even the Bad News Bears, this laugh-out-loud musical is a fantastic opportunity for teens to sharpen their wit, fineness their vocal skills, and even learn puppetry skills!

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Avenue Q SE Rehearsal and Show Calendar

Directed and Choreographed by Kimmy Dooley & Elizabeth McKoy

Available for students in the Imagination Players program, grades 3-6 and 6-8. This summer, join the Imagination Players under the sea in this classic adventure. Get in touch with your comic side as Scuttle, Sebastian, mermaids, Flounder, and the Chef or take on something a little more sinister as Ursula, the eels, and other evil creatures. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain pre-professional training and to perform on the Professional Season’s set of The Little Mermaid, also performing this summer. Tuition is $1850.

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Little Mermaid Session 1 Rehearsal and Show Calendar

Little Mermaid Session 2 Rehearsal and Show Calendar

Directed by William Hodgson

Available for students in the Teen Stage program, grades 7-12. This summer, journey into the forest where anything is possible. Enter a world where fairies are at war, lovers fall for the wrong people, and men walk into the forest and leave as different creatures. Join Berkeley Playhouse for our first ever Shakespearean production. Take your performance training to the next level in this specialized program meant to challenge young actors. Tuition is $850.

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Midsummer Rehearsal and Show Calendar

Directed by Simon Trumble

Available for students in the Teen Stage program, grades 7-12. What do a corpse in a wheelchair, an English shoe salesman, and Dog charity have in common? How about 6 million dollars! This summer, Join Harry Witherspoon, and a cast of wacky characters as they journey to fulfill his Uncle’s dying wish of going on the adventure of a lifetime, dead or alive. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain pre-professional training and to perform in this hilarious musical farce. Tuition is $1850.

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Lucky Stiff Rehearsal and Show Calendar

Meet the Directors!

		ELIZABETH McKOY founded Berkeley Playhouse 8 years ago and in addition to being Producting Artistic Director is also a Professional Season and youth productions director. She helped start the Bay Area affiliate of New York’s Lincoln Center Institute for Arts Education in the Schools. As Education Director, she brought arts education to thousands of school children and teachers in the Bay Area. Now, in addition to producing, directing, and teaching for Berkeley Playhouse, she is currently working to develop and sustain the Playhouse’s unique vision for musical theatre and theatre education.
		KIMBERLY DOOLEY has worked as a director, choreographer, and teaching artist in the Bay Area for over 14 years. She received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Experimental Theatre Wing. She will be directing the Professional Season's production of The Addams Family in March 2016. Favorite directing credits at Berkeley Playhouse include the award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Seussical The Musical; Once On This Island, and The Wiz. Teen Stage and Imagination Players productions include: Damn Yankees,Disney’s Mulan Jr., Carnival, Grease, and Pippin.
		WILLIAM HODGSON trained at Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and recently received his MFA from UCSD. He has appeared at Berkeley Playhouse, Shotgun Players, PCPA Theatrefest, SD Rep., La Jolla Playhouse, and Mixed Blood Theater. Credits include: Seussical the Musical (Cat in the Hat), Angels in America (Louis), A Midsummer Night's Dream(Puck), Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gypsy), Dance of the Holy Ghost(Marcus), and An Octaroon (BJJ).
		RACHEL ROBINSON directed the Imagination Players production of Alice in Wonderland Jr. Previous music directing credits at Berkeley Playhouse include:Fiddler on the Roof, Shrek the Musical, and the Imagination Players production ofPeter Pan. Rachel has worked extensively as a music director, director, educator, and actress. Additional music directing credits: South Pacific, Ring of Fire, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Chicago (Shellie Award Nomination), and Cabaret. Rachel spent the past two seasons serving as the director of the Pleasanton Civic Arts Stage Company and Orinda Intermediate School's Bulldog Theatre.
		SIMON TRUMBLE is a lifelong theatre artist and a Berkeley native. After graduating from Berkeley High School, he spent ten years in New York City and Columbus Ohio, studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Otterbein University. He holds a Masters in Educational Theatre from The City College of New York. Simon began directing as a student at Berkeley High School and has since directed over 25 productions, many performing at the Times Square Arts Center in Manhattan. He is over the moon to be back home in the Bay Area and partnering with The Berkeley Playhouse to be directing such an exciting production.