Alliance Theatre Acting Program and Education Department

The Alliance Theatre Acting Program and Education Department offers acting classes, drama camps, in-school initiatives, community acting classes, and skill-building workshops. More than 80,000 students each year experience age-specific professional performances and participate in these acting classes, drama camps, and in-school initiatives through the program. Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young performances provide professionally produced, fully interactive theater for infants and toddlers, and the Palefsky Collision Project invites high school artists to create and perform new civic-minded theater based on a classic text. Community acting classes and skill-building workshops engage professional artists, young actors, business leaders, and curious learners of all ages, and the Alliance Theatre Institute equips classroom teachers with theatrical techniques that link directly to school curriculum and have been empirically proven to improve student learning.

• Ages: 0–18 years old

Founded in 1968, the Alliance Theatre is a leader in arts education in Atlanta, offering year-round programs rooted in excellence, imagination, and inclusion. The Alliance Theatre Acting Program and Education Department operates within a theater that has received the Regional Theatre Tony Award in recognition of sustained excellence in programming, education, and community engagement, and has been twice recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for leadership in arts education. The Alliance Theatre’s mission states that it will lead the national field by deeply engaging with its local community and modeling radical inclusion and catalytic experience on its stage, in its classrooms, and throughout Atlanta. The organization is deeply committed to Atlanta artists, showcasing locally based artists on a nationally watched stage and sustaining Atlanta’s artistic community through the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab, which provides developmental support and production resources for an annual roster of locally sourced performance projects.

Last updated August 1, 2026.