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
WINTER: BABETTE’S FEAST
For ages 13-19, by audition only. To sign up and receive audition material, contact Angie James at ajames@sierrarep.org
About the show: This adaptation brings us into the cloistered 19th-century world of two loving, devout Lutheran sisters and tells us how they and their fractured community reluctantly, then completely, embrace Babette, a mysterious French refugee. But when Babette, much to the community’s shock, sacrifices all she has to throw a lavish dinner party, the dinner guests magically and inexplicably experience radical, infinite grace.
Tuition: $200 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Sonora Area Foundation and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: January 7-30, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be February 4-7, 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: February 8 and 9 at 11am and 2pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre
Instructors: Jerry Lee (Director)
SPRING: DISNEY’S DESCENDANTS: THE MUSICAL
For ages 10-17, up to 30 students are accepted.
About the show: Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films! Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?
Tuition: $300 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Sonora Area Foundation and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: April 22-May 15, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in The Annex at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be May 20-23, 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: May 24 and 25 at 11am and 2pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
Instructors: Camryn Elias (Director), TBA (Music Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
SUMMER: THE WIZARD OF OZ: YOUTH EDITION (TEENS AND PRE-TEENS)
For ages 10-17, accepting up to 25 students.
About the show: Join Dorothy and her loyal companion Toto as they “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” through the Land of Oz, determined to reach the Emerald City, where the great and powerful Wizard of Oz will help them get home. Of course, along the way, Dorothy encounters witches (both good and bad), Munchkins, talking trees and winged monkeys. But most importantly, she befriends three unique characters: a Scarecrow with no brain, a Tin Man with no heart, and a Lion with no “nerve.” Their journey to happiness – and self-awareness – is a glowing testament to friendship, understanding and hope in a world filled with both beauty and ugliness.
Tuition: $300 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Sonora Area Foundation and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: June 24-July 24, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm to 8pm in Studio B at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be July 29-August 1, 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: August 2 and 3 at at 11am and 2pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
Instructors: TBA (Director), TBA (Choreographer), TBA (Music Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
SUMMER: THE WIZARD OF OZ: YOUTH EDITION (LITTLES)
For ages 7-10, accepting up to 10 students. Younger actors will be featured as Munchkins in the “Munchkinland” sequence. After auditioning, some may be invited to play other roles designated for the teen and pre-teens.
About the show: Join Dorothy and her loyal companion Toto as they “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” through the Land of Oz, determined to reach the Emerald City, where the great and powerful Wizard of Oz will help them get home. Of course, along the way, Dorothy encounters witches (both good and bad), Munchkins, talking trees and winged monkeys. But most importantly, she befriends three unique characters: a Scarecrow with no brain, a Tin Man with no heart, and a Lion with no “nerve.” Their journey to happiness – and self-awareness – is a glowing testament to friendship, understanding and hope in a world filled with both beauty and ugliness.
Tuition: $150 (includes a materials fee). Full or partial scholarships are available and made possible by generous sponsors like Sonora Area Foundation and Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation. To apply for a scholarship, please contact ajames@sierrarep.org.
Rehearsal dates: June 24-July 24, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:30pm in Studio B at the East Sonora Theatre. Tech week will be July 29-August 1, 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: August 2 and 3 at at 11am and 2pm at the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park.
Instructors: TBA (Director), TBA (Choreographer), TBA (Music Director), TBA (Production Assistants)
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 Sonora Area Foundation 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)