Workshops
We offer an array of courses and workshops regarding performing arts for all levels of experience and ages.
Programs for All Ages
About the Class
This playful and imaginative improv workshop invites children 8 to 12 to explore creativity, collaboration, and storytelling through one simple object — a chair. Using improvisation, movement and purposeful play, participants will discover how a single item can transform into anything they imagine, from a bus stop to a pirate ship, and how collective imagination can build entire worlds. This course encourages creative thinking and flexibility, helps to develop teamwork and communication skills, and to build confidence through self-expression and performance, while introducing children to the basics of improvisation and storytelling. Length: 90 minutes. A maximum of 10 participants
Meet the Instructor
Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Samantha has been immersed in the theatre since childhood. She earned her BFA in theatre from Memorial University in 2014, and her BEd in drama education from UBC in 2020.
Samantha has extensive training in voice, movement, scene study and monologue work, clowning, and a range of acting techniques including Stanislavski, Alexander, and animal embodiment. She has also trained in puppetry, voice acting, and improv. Samantha believes in working organically with actors of all ages and fostering a collaborative storytelling process.
Now based in Vancouver, Samantha is a public school educator and also an actor, with credits including “Father Tartuffe” (Arts Club), “Our Town”, “Sylvia”, “Emilia”, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, “Abandon Hope Mabel Dorothy”, “The Penelopiad”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, and “In the Next Room”. She directed “The Revolutionists” and “The Birds and The Bees” at Vagabond Players, and was most recently seen in “Tempting Providence” with Little Dippers Theatre.
