Classes and Workshops
2025 Workshops and Classes
It's never too early to start in the arts. OTA welcomes everyone who wants to be a part of the theatre. Our instructors will help you learn theatrical crafts used in all our productions.
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Audition Workshop
OTA is establishing a new opportunity for performers: OTA Readers' Theatre! OTA is looking for those who want to help select and perform staged readings during the 2025 Season. This popular art form offers dramatic readings of narrative works without the use of costumes, props, sound effects or special lighting. Allow your imaginations to run wild as these actors use only their scripts and vocal expression to help you
understand the story. Rehearsals are minimal and memorization is not required. Enjoy the thrill of performing without the heavy lift of a full production. OTA is looking at offering six performances a year. Come be a part of the process and performance.
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Who: Ages 16 and up
Why: Tips, Techniques ands Practice for more Effective Auditioning
When: Thursday, February 13 from 6-8PM
Where: The Gathering Hall at Olympic Theatre Arts
Join experienced director and educator, Marissa Meek, for a workshop on Auditioning for Stage Productions. This FUN and participatory workshop will be helpful to newbies and experienced performers alike. Some (but not all) topics to be covered include:
-Preparation, even for cold readings and cattle calls,
-Using those pesky nerves to your advantage,
-Working with a Partner,
-Warming Up: Your Voice, Body, and Imagination,
-Leaving it All on the Stage, and
-What is the director looking for anyway?!
***Bring material from something you are going to audition for if you wish or sides will be provided.
Reader's Theatre Club
OTA is establishing a new opportunity for performers: OTA Readers' Theatre! OTA is looking for those who want to help select and perform staged readings during the 2025 Season. This popular art form offers dramatic readings of narrative works without the use of costumes, props, sound effects or special lighting. Allow your imaginations to run wild as these actors use only their scripts and vocal expression to help you
understand the story. Rehearsals are minimal and memorization is not required. Enjoy the thrill of performing without the heavy lift of a full production. OTA is looking at offering six performances a year. Come be a part of the process and performance.
OTA's Readers' Theatre Club meets 4:00pm-6:00pm the 1st and 3rd Thursday each month starting February.
OTA Singers
Do you love to sing? Do you want to join others that have the same passion? Are you a lover of musicals, but don’t necessarily have time to join a full cast production. Well, OTA has a place for you.
OTA has created an in-house group of singers to act as pre-show entertainment and ambassadors. This group meets weekly to build a repertoire of Broadway hits to be sung prior to main stage productions and to represent OTA at off-site functions such as festivals, fairs, and fundraisers. The group focuses on singing for fun and entertainment, as opposed to competition. It is OTA’s hope that the OTA Singers will tour many of the assisted living facilities, schools, and other venues as outreach for the theatre and the arts.
The chorus is open to teens, adults and seniors and meet under the direction of a Music Director who shares a passion for this genre. If you are interested in joining OTA Singers please email office@olympictheatrearts.org & tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Share your voice and your talents with our community and enjoy the process and results!
Youth Programs
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In OTA Youth Programs kids have the opportunity to learn all aspects of theatre, from acting, directing, stage management, and design, to running crews and stage crafts. Under the direction of Youth Theatre Educator Marissa Meek, kids will be led under a dedicated passionate instructor who has thirty years of experience. Mrs. Meek is the same director who brought to OTA such Youth Productions as Alice in Wonderland, Happily Ever After, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlotte's Web as well as the production design behind The Somewhat True Tales of Robin Hood and the direction of The Book of Will.
Please stay tuned for upcoming Youth Programs in Spring of 2025
