GREAT NEWS! - Do you want to spend half a day, every day (five days a week) for two years - studying theatre - during school hours? YOU CAN STILL JOIN: There are still 4 slots open at the Academy for the Performing Arts for any student who will be a Junior in the fall of 2017. Sorry, no first year Senior slots are available. ELIGIBLE SCHOOLS: If you attend any of the following schools, you are eligible to attend free of charge. West Geauga, Aurora, Solon, Chagrin Falls, Orange, Beachwood, Mayfield South Euclid/Lyndhurst, Richmond Heights, Willoughby/Eastlake. WHAT IS THE ACADEMY? The Academy for the Performing Arts is a college preparatory program of Excel Technical Education Career Consortium, currently in it’s tenth season, serving the ten school districts in the Mayfield Consortium. All classes and performances take place at Chagrin Falls Performing Arts Center. To learn all about the Program, the instructors, the curriculum, the performance season go to www.chagrinacademy.org <http://www.chagrinacademy.org/>. The Academy is run by Tom Fulton. It is a program of Career Tecc and is hosted by Chagrin Falls High School. 2017-18 SEASON October 27 RAGTIME, The Musical Dec 8 STEEL MAGNOLIAS Dec 15 The Senior IMPROV SHOW Feb 9 DNA Feb 15 Radium Girls, Chamber Music and OH Freedom (One Act Festival) March 2 William Shakespeare’s HAMLET May 4 PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (plays subject to change) All Performances are completely rehearsed and staged. CURRICULUM` The Academy offers two tracks; An artistic track - Acting, Improvisation, Voice, Movement, Stage Combat, Shakespeare & Audition A Technical Track - Technical Theatre, Stage Management, Design, Construction If you are interested, please contact DUSTEN WELCH at 440-247-2072 x4393 or by e-mail at dusten.a.welch@gmail.com <mailto:dusten.a.welch@gmail.com> to arrange an audition. Auditions should consist of two memorized 1 minute monologues - OR 1 monologue and one song.