Theatre Arts For Kids™

Summer 2012

Presenting.....
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber

Information and Registration Formspdf
 

Lots of Stage time for all
participants!

 Session 2:  July 11-29

Cost:  $750 per session
 

Ages 7-15

Monday-Friday, 9:30am – 3:30pm

Location: Seven Hills School
975 N San Carlos Drive
Walnut Creek

 Performance Location TBA
Performance Dates:
Friday, July 20th & Saturday, July 21st
 Questions, 
 Call Kathy 945-7101 x203
programs@childrenschorus.org

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LEAH ARINGTON — OUR TAFK DIRECTOR:

Leah Arington  is currently a Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, FL.  She holds her masters degree in Stage Directing from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.  Leah received her bachelor degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Eastman in 2000 and furthered her operatic studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

Leah’s directing credits include a vast array of musical theatre and opera.  Leah directed and choreographed Cabaret for Eastman Opera Theatre as well as serving as Assistant Director and Choreographer for Eastman Opera Theatre’s productions of A Little Night Music and The Merry Widow.  Leah has also served as Assistant Director and Choreographer for Mercury Opera Rochester’s production of Don Giovanni.  While at Eastman, Leah taught Intro To Lyric Theatre, dramatic coachings,  movement workshops, and directed various opera and musical theatre scenes programs.

Leah’s performance credits include solo engagements with the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra (Rochester, NY), Eastman Opera Theatre (Rochester, NY), Eastman Chorale (Rochester, NY), RNCM (Manchester, England), Diablo Light Opera Co. (Walnut Creek, CA), The G & S Musical Theatre Co. (Poughkeepsie, NY), Fourth Wall Productions (Poughkeepsie, NY).  Women’s Sing (Walnut Creek, CA), Aksarben Arts Council (Omaha, NE), Oberlin in Italy (Urbania, Italy), and more.    Leah has also been featured as soprano soloist for countless sacred works at churches throughout the United States.

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No stranger to the East Bay,  Leah served as Associate Artistic Director for the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus in the San Francisco east bay from 2004-2007.  She continues to enjoy spending her summers in the east bay directing the musical theatre company she originally founded in 1997 in Waterloo NE.  After bringing the program to the east bay area in 2001, Theatre Arts for Kids is a thriving company for young performers producing Broadway musicals each summer.  Recently, she began a branch of Theatre Arts for Kids in Tallahassee, FL.

Leah looks forward to celebrating the 10^th season of Theatre Arts For Kids with her CCCC family.