Playhouse Theatre Conservatory – Workshops for Kids & Teens
Santa Monica Playhouse, 1211 4th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401
About
Playhouse Theatre Conservatory – Workshops for Kids & Teens offers year-round theatre workshops, classes, and camps where participants take part in after school or weekend acting classes, play production classes, and musical theatre classes. The program includes Early Stages Create-A-Play, Winter Break theatre camp, Spring Break theatre camp, a Summer Theatre Workshop, an Online Theatre Workshop, a Summer Stock theatre intensive, International Theatre Tours, and Private Coaching. After school or weekend acting, play production, and musical theatre classes culminate in a performance for friends, family, and the public.
• Ages: 4–16 years old
• Price: Private Coaching - $100 per hour ($75 per hour if booking 10 to 25 hours; $65 per hour if booking over 25 hours)
Early Stages Create-A-Play is for ages 4 to 6 with sessions during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Winter and Spring Break theatre camps are described as a thrilling adventure of the theatrical kind where participants create and perform a play in just one camp session. The Summer Theatre Workshop is described as the most popular theatre camp and a spectacular all day theatre experience where young people make friends, expand their imagination, have fun, learn how to build an ensemble, and work on creating an original musical or play, with camps available for all ages throughout the summer. The Online Theatre Workshop meets once a week via Zoom, covers basic camera technique and help memorizing a script that participants help create, and culminates in a fully edited filming of the original piece of theatre to share with family and friends. Summer Stock is described as a theatre intensive for serious performers and is by invitation only. International Theatre Tours are described as experiencing another culture through the lens of theatre and as the only theatre tours of their kind that include participants starting at age 12.
Private Coaching consists of 90-minute sessions that emphasize movement for the stage, basics of auditioning and camera technique, focus and concentration, memorization and cold reading, and projection and enunciation, and aims to develop the ability to excel in auditions and performance on any stage and in any artistic endeavor in a truthful, authentic manner.
The Playhouse Theatre Conservatory program for youth is described as invigorating and combines the fun and excitement of working as a team to create and perform a brand new play with a dynamic, creative, arts-oriented environment. Working actors share their love of the craft with young people in all stages of development using a unique hands-on method structured so that each child can be successful and that ignites students' passion for arts appreciation and self-expression. Santa Monica Playhouse® was established in 1969 and states that it is not just plays, but an organization dedicated to sharing the magic of live theatre in all its glorious and empowering forms.
Parents describe the program as professional, caring, and a great experience for kids, with one parent noting that in one week the program accomplished what most programs cannot accomplish in months and that their daughter had a fantastic time and could not wait to return. Another parent shared that the team was super professional, attentive, sensitive, and patient, and that their daughter said she would never forget the experience. A third parent thanked the program for providing a video of the performance that could be shared with family members who were not in town.
Last updated June 16, 2026.
• Ages: 4–16 years old
• Price: Private Coaching - $100 per hour ($75 per hour if booking 10 to 25 hours; $65 per hour if booking over 25 hours)
Early Stages Create-A-Play is for ages 4 to 6 with sessions during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Winter and Spring Break theatre camps are described as a thrilling adventure of the theatrical kind where participants create and perform a play in just one camp session. The Summer Theatre Workshop is described as the most popular theatre camp and a spectacular all day theatre experience where young people make friends, expand their imagination, have fun, learn how to build an ensemble, and work on creating an original musical or play, with camps available for all ages throughout the summer. The Online Theatre Workshop meets once a week via Zoom, covers basic camera technique and help memorizing a script that participants help create, and culminates in a fully edited filming of the original piece of theatre to share with family and friends. Summer Stock is described as a theatre intensive for serious performers and is by invitation only. International Theatre Tours are described as experiencing another culture through the lens of theatre and as the only theatre tours of their kind that include participants starting at age 12.
Private Coaching consists of 90-minute sessions that emphasize movement for the stage, basics of auditioning and camera technique, focus and concentration, memorization and cold reading, and projection and enunciation, and aims to develop the ability to excel in auditions and performance on any stage and in any artistic endeavor in a truthful, authentic manner.
The Playhouse Theatre Conservatory program for youth is described as invigorating and combines the fun and excitement of working as a team to create and perform a brand new play with a dynamic, creative, arts-oriented environment. Working actors share their love of the craft with young people in all stages of development using a unique hands-on method structured so that each child can be successful and that ignites students' passion for arts appreciation and self-expression. Santa Monica Playhouse® was established in 1969 and states that it is not just plays, but an organization dedicated to sharing the magic of live theatre in all its glorious and empowering forms.
Parents describe the program as professional, caring, and a great experience for kids, with one parent noting that in one week the program accomplished what most programs cannot accomplish in months and that their daughter had a fantastic time and could not wait to return. Another parent shared that the team was super professional, attentive, sensitive, and patient, and that their daughter said she would never forget the experience. A third parent thanked the program for providing a video of the performance that could be shared with family members who were not in town.
Last updated June 16, 2026.
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