Don’t Wait For College to start your TRAINING Private Auditions Available Through August 31 each year Call 440-247-2072 x4393 for assistance! Study at the Academy for the Performing Arts in your junior and senior years. Study with the top professional actors and directors in Northeast Ohio. Learn the joy of approaching theatre as an ART. Earn up to ELEVEN College Credits Professional training in: Musical Theatre & Performance Classical Acting & Performance Technical Theatre & Design Film Production and Performance Each year, over 60 young artists, juniors and seniors from 11 area schools, come to the Academy to experience contemporary, cutting edge educational and cultural opportunities. Acting students study musical, classical, modern, and contemporary theatre in addition to Shakespeare. Our approach is self-discovery through a powerful acting system utilized by theatre schools around the world. Students in the technical track receive a solid foundation in all areas of design, specifying and honing their skills over the course of the two year program. The Academy for the Performing Arts was founded in 2008 and is located in beautiful Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Our teaching staff consists of working theatre artists. Each is a professional and expert in his or her various teaching subjects The Academy hosts two fully equipped theaters: a beautiful new cutting edge proscenium stage and a 125 seat black-box studio theater. www.chagrinacademy.org <http://www.chagrinacademy.org/> STAFF Tom Fulton, Director, Acting & Shakespeare Ben Needham, Director of Design and Theatre Management Dusten Welch, Administrative Director; Stage Combat Mitchell Fields, Associate Instructor Sara Bogomolny, Choreography & Acting; Cody Swanson, Production Stage Manager Nora Dlugo, Technical Director