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Have fun, meet new friends, and build life-skills while learning about the performing arts at Drayton Entertainment Youth Academy! Learn about making behind-the-scenes magic with fundamental training in singing, movement, scene work, and more. We cultivate community, ignite imaginations, and boost confidence while developing a deeper, life-long appreciation for theatre.
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Our mission is to adopt equitable and inclusive principles and practices to realize a community where diversity thrives. We aim to provide unparalleled opportunities that cultivate community, ignite imagination, boost confidence and develop a deeper, life-long appreciation for the performing arts. The Academy is supported by the strength of Drayton Entertainment’s established brand of theatrical arts excellence. The resources that set our Academy apart are not only state-of-the art training and performance facilities, but our ability to offer students exposure to professional productions and an always-accessible wealth of onstage and offstage experts eager to share their lived experience.
Choose the right programs and sessions for your child; Drayton Entertainment Youth Theatre Programs currently has 7 programs available.
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Coed Ages: 1 - 7 Theatre Arts, Performing Arts (multi)
$120
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Coed Ages: 19 Health and Fitness (multi), Theatre Arts
$120
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Coed Ages: 1 - 18+ Theatre Arts, Performing Arts (multi)
$216 to $432
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Coed Ages: 8 - 16 Performing Arts (multi), Musical Theatre
$395
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Coed Ages: 12 - 18 Musical Theatre, Performing Arts (multi)
$395
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Coed Ages: 8 - 11 Performing Arts (multi), Musical Theatre
$395
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Coed Ages: 6 - 13 Musical Theatre, Performing Arts (multi)
$395
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Registration is open online through our parent portal. Please visit our website to register for camps and programming. If you have any questions about registration, feel free to reach out to us via email!
Payment Options:
Credit card payment | Yes |
Discounts
Discount for 2nd child | 10% |
From the iconic and award-winning live theatre organization, Drayton Entertainment, comes a program that gives youth exceptional theatre training. As a non-profit charitable organization, they are one of Canada’s most successful professional theatre companies. You may know them from their tenures at many acclaimed theatres and playhouses throughout Ontario. The Academy’s mission is to foster a life-long appreciation in performing arts in the youth they teach. This includes developing the core values of respect, creativity, growth, and accountability. The environment is diverse and inclusive and one could even say, loving. Kids learn confidence in themselves and as performers, with empowering exercises that push the kids to be their very best selves. For those so inclined, kids can take their performing arts training a step further with audition learning opportunities, which help them learn to move forward from failure and accept the challenges they are presented with.
Visit the Drayton Entertainment Youth Theatre Programs website
David Connolly is the Associate Artistic Director of Drayton Entertainment and Head of the Youth Academy. He is a Director, Educator, and Disability and Inclusion Advocate who is deeply committed to changing the statistic of being the only amputee to have performed on Broadway. He has collaborated with artists including Katy Perry, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Elton John, Sarah Jessica Parker, kd lang, Patti LaBelle, Sarah Brightman and many others.
As an Educator, David has been an Adjunct Professor and Advisor to the Musical Theatre Performance Programs at Sheridan College, Randolph College, Fanshawe College, St Lawrence College, VanderCook College and most recently, the Hopkins Centre for the Arts at Dartmouth College. While on the faculty at the famed Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Centre in New York, his students included Natalie Portman and Bryce Dallas Howard.
David holds an Honours Bachelor Degree in Musical Theatre Performance from Sheridan College, is a recipient of The Ontario Premier’s Award of Excellence, The Waterloo Region Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, and an Ambassador for both The War Amps’ Child Amputee Program (CHAMP) and The Shriners Hospitals for Children.
For Drayton Entertainment, he helmed over thirty productions including the Canadian regional theatre premieres of Kinky Boots, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mamma Mia! and Newsies. For the screen, David has directed and choreographed several series for CBC Kids including their newest live action series, “Ukulele U.”
Please visit our website to view our list of announced instructors this summer!
Offers children's birthday party packages: Yes
Celebrate your birthday with us by starring in a Broadway Musical Production Number! You and your BFFs will spend your party with a director/choreographer who will teach you the music and choreography to a production number and direct you all in a scene from the show! All participants will get to take home the sheet music and scene! The birthday child and up to 11 friends will spend time playing theatre games, acting, dancing and singing! Then, enjoy the show-themed décor while the guest of honour opens their presents and hosts an “insta-famous” photoshoot in front of our glittering Broadway birthday backdrop wall. If you have any questions about celebrating your birthday at the Academy, please reach out via email!
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