Early Childhood Program

Educational Content:

• Vocabulary and Sequencing skills
• Imaginative play
• Ensemble building

Preschool students practice vocabulary and sequencing skills in this story-based theatre class, which includes activities rooted in imaginative play, movement, character creation, language development, story sequencing and ensemble skills!

  • Weekly, bi-weekly, or multiple times per week

    Typically, 5-10 weekly sessions

    Culminates in a project to be determined by Host and Wolf PAC staff

    Designed for groups of Preschool and Pre-K students aged 3-5

    We recommend 30 minute sessions for Preschool, and 45 minute sessions for Pre-K and Kindergarten students.

  • One of our existing residencies includes a 10 week, 45 minute daytime class. The students gain an introduction to our Actor’s Tools curriculum, practice story sequencing through role-play and movement, and create new characters and story endings through acting games and activities.

  • Fees based on number of session meetings and length of each session

Elementary School Program

Educational Content:

• Imagination
• Theatre Vocabulary
• Acting Basics

Wolf PAC Teaching Artists lead your elementary school through a 45-minute Actor’s Tools Assembly, which introduces acting basics. The assembly includes demonstration, student volunteers, and full group activity. Your school may opt to include additional time in breakout groups with the Teaching Artists in individual classrooms or smaller groups.

  • Options for individual workshops within each classroom or grade level

    Workshops may work toward a final presentation option for the school

    The Actor’s Tools Assembly focuses on Theatre Education, introducing students to the best practices used to create characters, tell stories, and perform on stage

  • In May 2024, two Wolf PAC Teaching Artists led a 45-minute assembly for 500 students, which included Teaching Artist demonstration as well as full and small group participation. Our Teaching Artists visited each classroom throughout the week to provide differentiated instruction and a deeper dive into the material. The program culminated in a full-school showcase assembly, in which the students shared what they learned in their individual sessions.

  • Fee based on amount of time with teaching artists

Educational Content:

• Ensemble Building
• Character Development
• Performance

Wolf PAC brings a full performance experience to your Kindergarten classroom! Our staff will facilitate rehearsals of an original Wolf PAC script written specifically for this age group. As the students learn stagecraft and develop characters for their performance, they will practice reading skills, working together, and critical thinking.

  • Kindergarten Performance Package includes:

    Daytime Rehearsal Process

    Original Wolf PAC Scripts designed specifically for this age group

    Collaboration with school personnel to create costuming and set pieces

    We recommend 12-14 sessions, plus a short tech rehearsal schedule

  • We maintain a residency with a local school in which we facilitate their annual Kindergarten performance program. The students rehearse an original Wolf PAC script with our Teaching Artists, along with learning basic acting and performing skills. The process lasts for 14 weeks and culminates in a full production for families at the host school.

  • Fees based on number of session meetings and performances

Middle School Program

Educational Content:

• Structure of a play
• Creative thinking
• Devising

Our Teaching Artists will lead your students through the process of devising and then performing an original play! Budding playwrights create a play or series of skits to suit their interests or support your curriculum to be performed for your school community.

  • 8-10, 1 hour sessions

    1-2 Teaching Artists work with one classroom at a time, up to 25 students

    Ensemble skills, Improvisation, and creative writing

    Optional Performance for school community or families

  • In Spring 2024, we ran two performance programs that began with an original Wolf PAC script. Using improvisation and student input, various plot points, characters, and settings were changed by the group in order to meet their interests. We can start a project this way, or start from scratch as our Teaching Artists facilitate brainstorming and devising sessions with your students.

  • Fees based vary based on program structure; please contact AIR Manager for a quote

Educational Content:

• Public Speaking
• Confidence
• Speech writing

Let Wolf PAC support your language arts curriculum with a public speaking component. Our Teaching Artists will help create a speech from a personal narrative or story project the students have already written, and coach them toward a dynamic presentation.

  • 6-8, 1 hour long sessions

    Acting activities to help develop confidence in front of an audience

    Focus on projection, diction, story arch, and style

  • We have annual programming at a local school which supports the Language Arts department. The students prepare a personal narrative, which our Teaching Artists help to modify into a speech. Through improvisation and acting activities, the students gain presentational skills and coaching in their speeches.

  • Fees based vary based on program structure; please contact AIR Manager for a quote

Contact us:

Amy Brower
Artist in Residence Director
amy@wolfperformingartscenter.org