SRT Jr
SRT Jr. WORKSHOPS: SRT’s Professional Guest Artists (Actors, Designers, Directors) are here to provide classes for your students! These professionally oriented workshops provide students with a deeper understanding of theatre craft.
2025 Workshops and Workshop Productions
FALL: CYRANO DE BERGERAC
For ages 10-17, accepting up to 25 students.
About the show: Cyrano finds himself in a love triangle with his Roxane and a young cadet, the Baron Christian de Neuvillete. Roxane and Christian have fallen in love without exchanging a single word, and Roxane enlists her Cyrano’s help to introduce them, as well as protect Christian from trouble amongst the other cadets and in war. Cyrano puts his own love for Roxane aside to fulfill her happiness, writing beautiful love letters and allowing the inexperienced and ineloquent Christian the credit. Will Roxane learn the truth about her love? Will Cyrano ever be able to confess his love?
Tuition: $225 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Adventist Health Sonora and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: September 30-October 23, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in Studio B at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be October 28-31, from 5pm to 8pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
No student may miss tech rehearsals or performances. Any missed rehearsals and performances will result in student suspension from the SRT Jr program for the remainder of the season.
Performances: November 1 and 2 at 11am and 2pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
Instructors: Jerry Lee (Director), Camryn Elias (Choreographer), TBA (Production Assistants)
2026 Workshops and Workshop Productions
WINTER: RHINOCEROS
For ages 12-19, by audition only. To schedule an audition, contact Angie James at ajames@sierrarep.org
About the show: Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco; translated by Derek Prouse. The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity.
Tuition: $225 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Adventist Health Sonora and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: January 6-30, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be January 27-30, from 5pm to 8pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre.
No student may miss tech rehearsals or performances. Any missed rehearsals and performances will result in student suspension from the SRT Jr program for the remainder of the season.
Performances: January 30 and February 1 at 11am and 2pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre
Instructors: Jerry Lee (Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
SPRING: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF JR.
For ages 10-17, up to 30 students are accepted.
About the show: Fiddler on the Roof JR., music by Jerry Bock, book by Joseph Stein, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, original production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, based on Sholem Aleichem’s stories, by special permission of Arnold Perl. Set in the little village of Anatevka, the story centers on Tevye, a poor dairyman, and his five daughters. With the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to marry off his daughters and instill in them a sense of tradition in the face of growing anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia.
Tuition: $325 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Adventist Health Sonora and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: February 23-April 3, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be March 31-April 3, from 5pm to 8pm at the East Sonora Theatre. No student may miss tech rehearsals or performances. Any missed rehearsals and performances will result in student suspension from the SRT Jr program for the remainder of the season.
Performances: April 4 and 5 at 11am and 2pm at the East Sonora Theatre.
Instructors: TBA (Director), TBA (Music Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
SUMMER: BEETLEJUICE JR. (TEENS AND PRE-TEENS)
For ages 10-17, accepting up to 25 students.
About the show: Beetlejuice JR., music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect, book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, based on the Geffen Company motion picture, with a story by Michael McDowell and Larry Wilson. Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager, still grieving the loss of her mother and obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, she and her father move to a new house haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium.
Tuition: $325 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Adventist Health Sonora and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: May 5-June 12, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in Studio B at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be June 9-12, from 5pm to 8pm at the East Sonora Theatre.
No student may miss tech rehearsals or performances. Any missed rehearsals and performances will result in student suspension from the SRT Jr program for the remainder of the season.
Performances: June 13 and 14 at at 11am and 2pm at the East Sonora Theatre.
Instructors: TBA (Director), TBA (Choreographer), TBA (Music Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
FALL: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (TEENS AND PRE-TEENS)
For ages 10-17, accepting up to 25 students.
About the show: Alice in Wonderland, adapted from the story by Lewis Carroll. As Alice lands in a unique underground world, she encounters an abundance of absurd, mysterious and magical characters and comes face to face with the heartless and tyrannical Queen. Alice’s arrival from beyond unnerves the Queen, but when the adventure becomes too much, will our lonely heroine return home…or will she stay and stand up to the madcap majesty?
Tuition: $225 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Adventist Health Sonora and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: August 25-September 25, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in Studio B at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be September 22-25, from 5pm to 8pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
No student may miss tech rehearsals or performances. Any missed rehearsals and performances will result in student suspension from the SRT Jr program for the remainder of the season.
Performances: September 26 and 27 at at 11am and 2pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
Instructors: Jerry Lee (Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
FALL: ALICE IN WONDERLAND (LITTLES)
For ages 7-10, accepting up to 10 students. After auditioning, some may be invited to play other roles designated for the teen and pre-teens.
About the show: Alice in Wonderland, adapted from the story by Lewis Carroll. As Alice lands in a unique underground world, she encounters an abundance of absurd, mysterious and magical characters and comes face to face with the heartless and tyrannical Queen. Alice’s arrival from beyond unnerves the Queen, but when the adventure becomes too much, will our lonely heroine return home…or will she stay and stand up to the madcap majesty?
Tuition: $175 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Adventist Health Sonora and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: August 25-September 25, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:30pm in Studio B at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be September 22-25, from 5pm to 8pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
No student may miss tech rehearsals or performances. Any missed rehearsals and performances will result in student suspension from the SRT Jr program for the remainder of the season.
Performances: September 26 and 27 at at 11am and 2pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
Instructors: Jerry Lee (Director), TBA (Production Assistants)