A fun and encouraging introduction to drama! This workshop nurtures your students’ creativity as they embody characters, explore emotions, and engage with storytelling.

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 1-2 hours
Price: $105/hour + GST

Are your students quite the characters? This workshop inspires self-expression and collaboration as we explore three key acting tools: the body, the voice and the imagination.

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 1-2 hours
Price: $105/hour + GST

Experience the thrill and total freedom of creating theatre without a script while developing skills in communication, listening, and teamwork.

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 60 minutes (minimum of a 2 hour booking when travelling outside of MTYP)
Price: $105/hour + GST

Discover the art of puppetry! Stimulate your students’ creativity through the invention of stories and characters using rod, sock, or shadow puppets.

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 90 minutes (minimum of a 2 hour booking when travelling outside of MTYP)
Price: $105/hour + GST plus $2.50 per student supply fee

Students transform themselves into a character by designing a mask all their own, while using their imaginations to invent a unique voice and movement style.

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 90 minutes (minimum of a 2 hour booking when travelling outside of MTYP)
Price: $99/hour plus GST plus $2.50 per student supply fee

Give your students the Broadway experience. Learn to act, sing, and dance – all at the same time!

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 75 minutes (minimum of a 2 hour booking when travelling outside of MTYP)
Price: $130/hour + GST

Lights, camera, action! An excellent behind-the-scenes introduction to the world of acting for film and television.

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 2 hours
Price: $120/hour + GST

Students shift their perspectives and use simple, yet elegant, theatre techniques to transport themselves through time and space, to help create their own pieces!

Maximum Group Size: 25 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 1.5 – 2 hours
Price: $105/hour + GST

Offer a weekly drama class, and see your students shine! Our experienced instructors will encourage and engage, while developing your students’ theatrical skills and confidence. From introductory acting courses to performance-based programs, it’s a profoundly valuable opportunity for students to collaborate and find joy as they encounter the art of theatre.

Maximum Group Size: 12 students
Minimum Workshop Length: 2 hours a week, for 4 to 20 (or more!) weeks
Price: Contact our Drama Outreach coordinator Cora Matheson for pricing.

Welcome an artist to your school for an extraordinary week of creativity, connection and play. Whether you’re looking for the chance to delve deeply into a theatrical style, or want to devise an imaginative original performance, it’s sure to be one of the most magical weeks of the year!

Maximum Group Size: 12 students
Price: $130/hour plus GST

Students express themselves through puppetry and play, and learn how different Indigenous communities in Manitoba plan their year around the thirteen moons and seasonal changes.

Capacity: up to 25 students per workshop
Length: minimum of 2 hours
Cost: $150/hour and $2.50 supply fee/student + GST
Location: at your school or Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Many Indigenous communities across Turtle Island honour the Seven Sacred Teachings: Humility, Respect, Courage, Wisdom, Love, Honesty, and Truth. Students will explore these Teachings using the actors’ tools of voice, body and imagination.

Capacity: up to 25 students per workshop
Length: minimum of 2 hours
Cost: $150/hour + GST
Location: at your school or Manitoba Theatre for Young People

Indigenous communities across Turtle Island tell stories of the Trickster. Students will learn about traditional storytelling through legends, teachings and personal stories, and use mask or puppetry to explore the stories of Tricksters and the animal forms they may take.

Capacity: up to 25 students per workshop
Length: minimum of 2 hours
Cost: $150/hour and $2.50 supply fee/student + GST
Location: at your school or Manitoba Theatre for Young People

See your students shine! In this Indigenous-led program, experienced instructors will encourage and engage, while developing your students’ theatrical skills and confidence. Students will explore the tools of voice, movement and improvisation, learn why the art of storytelling is important, and get behind-the-scenes knowledge about pursuing a career in the arts, as instructors incorporate Indigenous languages and ways of knowing into drama warm ups and exercises. The program will culminate in an end-of-week showcase to celebrate the relationships created and knowledge shared.

Capacity: up to 12 students per group
Length: 25-30 hours
Cost: $125/hour + GST, plus planning, travel, and accommodation fees
Location: at your school

Adam Schwartz is an autistic comedian, playwright, and author. He hasn’t always embraced his differences, but he has learned they are what makes him great and an important part of the community.

Adam’s engaging and informative presentation inspires conversations about empathy and embracing our differences. Adam shares his children’s book Jonathan and the Big Barbeque about a young person on the autism spectrum, followed by a group activity that encourages kindness, and a question and answer period with the audience.

Maximum Group Size: 50 students
Length: approx. 30 mins
Price: $150 + GST

Adam Schwartz is a stand-up comedian on the autism spectrum. In “What’s Funny About Autism?” Adam presents his hilarious half-hour set, followed by a question and answer period to start conversations about creating inclusive spaces where all students feel welcome.

Maximum Group Size: 75 students
Length: approx. 45 mins
Price: $225 + GST

PlayRoots is a playwrighting program for teens developed by playwright Ellen Peterson. Over the course of five sessions, students are empowered to discover their voice as they learn what it takes to grow a play from the ground up. In the final session, professional actors visit the class and perform a reading of the plays.

Maximum Group Size: 30 students
Length: 5 sessions of 60-75 minutes each
Price: $950.00 + GST

Currently taking bookings for fall 2023 and beyond.

Become your own “Wild Thing” in the fun interactive mask making and character building workshop.

Length: 1 hour
Cost: $105/hour + GST, plus $2.50 per student supply fee
Maximum Group Size: 25 students

Sing, move, and act, in the magical world of Narnia! Students learn a song from the show in this fun musical theatre workshop.

Length: 1 hour
Cost: $130/hour + GST
Maximum Group Size: 25 students

Students move, play and collaborate as they explore the use of objects, their imagination and play in this physical theatre workshop.

Length: 1 hour
Cost: $105/hour + GST
Maximum Group Size: 25 students

Students use props, lights and make their own Gruffalo as they recreate the story in this playfully imaginative workshop.

Length: 1 hour
Cost: $105/hour + GST, plus $2.50 per student supply fee
Maximum Group Size: 25 students

Students dive into the world of summer camp, with this fun competition style drama workshop, sure to spark some joy to any student.

Length: 1 hour
Cost: $105/hour + GST
Maximum Group Size: 25 students

Stories are woven into the fabric of life, and the act of storytelling preserves important traditions, values and gifts. In this workshop, students share and engage with family stories, carried from one generation to the next.

Length: 1 hour
Cost: $99/hour + GST
Maximum Group Size: 25 students