Stages Bloomington Theatre Company
1525 S. Rogers St, Bloomington, IN 47403
About
Stages Bloomington Theatre Company offers theatre arts education through classes, workshops, summer camps, and fully-staged musicals and plays. Participants take part in productions that include auditions and rehearsals, as well as off-stage activities such as set design, lighting, costumes, music, and marketing.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
Stages Bloomington Theatre Company has been a non-profit theatre company since 2006 and began with a fifteen-minute pre-show performance in December 2005. It has produced thirty-four fully-staged musicals and plays performed exclusively by children and teens and typically produces three to five shows each year geared to family and adult audiences, drawing an annual audience of over 3,000. Classes, camps, and fully staged productions are taught by skilled professionals with extensive experience working with children and young adults. The company’s mission states that it offers exceptional year-round theatre arts education and performance opportunities for children and teens in Bloomington and surrounding counties, and that its programs build passion for the arts, promote self confidence, teach collaboration, and help young people become better students and citizens. The mission also states that programming is guided by the belief that good theatre is good theatre regardless of the age of the performers, with a commitment to creating exciting, high quality, meaningful, and memorable live theatre for audiences of all ages, and that its educational vision promotes empathy, critical thinking, and a larger world view by encouraging participants and audiences to examine the world from a social and historical perspective and viewing every production as an artistic and educational process.
The organization identifies itself as the only theatre company of its kind in Bloomington. Additional funding for programs and scholarships comes from local businesses, individuals, arts organizations, grants, and Friends of Stages. A troupe from Stages traveled to the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, where it won the Broadway Junior Spirit Award and the Freddie G Outstanding Achievement in Music Award. Brundibar, Hans Krasa’s children’s opera co-produced by Stages and The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, was listed by Peter Jacobi, music columnist for the Herald-Times, as “one of the ten most notable musical events in 2016.” Leadership includes a Board of Directors (Ansley Valentine, President; Dana Burton, Vice President; Lisa Zorn, Secretary; Lacie Davis, Treasurer; Nola Hartman; Claire Mahave; Lauren Nekola), Managing Director Marc Tschida, and Teen Programming Coordinator Annalise Cain.
Last updated May 14, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
Stages Bloomington Theatre Company has been a non-profit theatre company since 2006 and began with a fifteen-minute pre-show performance in December 2005. It has produced thirty-four fully-staged musicals and plays performed exclusively by children and teens and typically produces three to five shows each year geared to family and adult audiences, drawing an annual audience of over 3,000. Classes, camps, and fully staged productions are taught by skilled professionals with extensive experience working with children and young adults. The company’s mission states that it offers exceptional year-round theatre arts education and performance opportunities for children and teens in Bloomington and surrounding counties, and that its programs build passion for the arts, promote self confidence, teach collaboration, and help young people become better students and citizens. The mission also states that programming is guided by the belief that good theatre is good theatre regardless of the age of the performers, with a commitment to creating exciting, high quality, meaningful, and memorable live theatre for audiences of all ages, and that its educational vision promotes empathy, critical thinking, and a larger world view by encouraging participants and audiences to examine the world from a social and historical perspective and viewing every production as an artistic and educational process.
The organization identifies itself as the only theatre company of its kind in Bloomington. Additional funding for programs and scholarships comes from local businesses, individuals, arts organizations, grants, and Friends of Stages. A troupe from Stages traveled to the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, where it won the Broadway Junior Spirit Award and the Freddie G Outstanding Achievement in Music Award. Brundibar, Hans Krasa’s children’s opera co-produced by Stages and The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, was listed by Peter Jacobi, music columnist for the Herald-Times, as “one of the ten most notable musical events in 2016.” Leadership includes a Board of Directors (Ansley Valentine, President; Dana Burton, Vice President; Lisa Zorn, Secretary; Lacie Davis, Treasurer; Nola Hartman; Claire Mahave; Lauren Nekola), Managing Director Marc Tschida, and Teen Programming Coordinator Annalise Cain.
Last updated May 14, 2026.
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