Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative Workshops and Clinics
Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, 715 Central Avenue, Tracy, CA 95376
About
Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative Workshops and Clinics offers students hands-on experience producing full-size musicals and plays, along with acting, directing, producing, stage management, costuming, set design, prop master work, and company dancing. Participants take part in workshops, special summer clinics, master classes, theater education workshops, and acting and musical theater instruction, including vocal coaching, music direction, choreography, and technical sound and lighting. Students also present showcases or mini-productions.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Open Monday–Friday with daytime and early evening hours, and weekend daytime hours (Mon–Fri 10am–7pm; Sat–Sun 11am–4pm)
Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative launched on February 9, 2024, as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with an all-volunteer staff. The organization produces two full-size musicals or plays each year highlighting local talent and offers continual programs throughout the year that cover both front-of-house and behind-the-curtain roles. Its mission states that it strives to make the performing arts accessible to all by fostering creativity, empathy, and personal growth within the community, and that by nurturing talent and encouraging participation, it aims to enrich lives and strengthen connections through theater.
The leadership team is headed by co-founders Maggie Foresee-Griese, who represents Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative and oversees administration, and Grace Reinheimer, who oversees talent management, costuming, administrative duties, and website content, along with team members Sarah McGuire, Scott Snyder, Geri Neylan, Dennis Lockard, Abigail Simens, Jullian (Julian) Steffens, Theo Crocker, and JT Amador. Staff experience includes decades in directing, stage management, costuming, acting, vocal and music direction, choreography, theater instruction, curriculum development, technical sound and lighting, set design and construction, company dancing, and multimedia support, as well as current theater and dance studies at the college level. Scott Snyder is the 2025 Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year, and Geri Neylan was the 2016 Educator of the Year from the Tracy Chamber of Commerce.
Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative works with other organizations, schools, and independent production teams in the greater Tracy and San Joaquin County area and has support from the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. The community requested that Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative become a resident company and the organization states that it values community theater as a space where creativity is nurtured and artists of all levels can grow and refine their craft. The organization received a grant of $27,433 for a mobile sound system that allows performances both in and out of the theater and offers intern and assistant learning and application opportunities in multiple production areas. One testimonial from CEO Maggie Foresee-Griese states, “Performing Arts goes way beyond the nights of performance. There is nothing quite so inspiring as seeing a life transformed from someone's very first role,” and another from team member Geri Neylan states, “Miraculous things can happen when you work together, and that’s what theatre is to me.”
Last updated March 14, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Open Monday–Friday with daytime and early evening hours, and weekend daytime hours (Mon–Fri 10am–7pm; Sat–Sun 11am–4pm)
Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative launched on February 9, 2024, as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization with an all-volunteer staff. The organization produces two full-size musicals or plays each year highlighting local talent and offers continual programs throughout the year that cover both front-of-house and behind-the-curtain roles. Its mission states that it strives to make the performing arts accessible to all by fostering creativity, empathy, and personal growth within the community, and that by nurturing talent and encouraging participation, it aims to enrich lives and strengthen connections through theater.
The leadership team is headed by co-founders Maggie Foresee-Griese, who represents Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative and oversees administration, and Grace Reinheimer, who oversees talent management, costuming, administrative duties, and website content, along with team members Sarah McGuire, Scott Snyder, Geri Neylan, Dennis Lockard, Abigail Simens, Jullian (Julian) Steffens, Theo Crocker, and JT Amador. Staff experience includes decades in directing, stage management, costuming, acting, vocal and music direction, choreography, theater instruction, curriculum development, technical sound and lighting, set design and construction, company dancing, and multimedia support, as well as current theater and dance studies at the college level. Scott Snyder is the 2025 Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year, and Geri Neylan was the 2016 Educator of the Year from the Tracy Chamber of Commerce.
Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative works with other organizations, schools, and independent production teams in the greater Tracy and San Joaquin County area and has support from the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. The community requested that Tracy Theater Arts Collaborative become a resident company and the organization states that it values community theater as a space where creativity is nurtured and artists of all levels can grow and refine their craft. The organization received a grant of $27,433 for a mobile sound system that allows performances both in and out of the theater and offers intern and assistant learning and application opportunities in multiple production areas. One testimonial from CEO Maggie Foresee-Griese states, “Performing Arts goes way beyond the nights of performance. There is nothing quite so inspiring as seeing a life transformed from someone's very first role,” and another from team member Geri Neylan states, “Miraculous things can happen when you work together, and that’s what theatre is to me.”
Last updated March 14, 2026.
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