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Now entering its fourth season the Young Performers Program works with youth aged 6-18. Young Performers are trained in all aspects of theatre performance, with a strong focus on creative self-expression, self-confidence, and group work. Bumbershoot teachers and directors are actors, choreographers, performers, and educators, who create a safe, fun, and energetic environment in which children and young people feel free to create, challenge themselves, make lasting friendships, and learn. Bumbershoot produces children who are self-confident, energetic, and develop an empathetic, understanding, and creative outlook on the world around them!

The Bumbershoot Young Performers Program is a performance based program that allows young people to participate in producing a fully staged theatrical production from beginning to end. The intensive program auditions early in the year and is then cast. Those that are cast in the program will be committing their time for the month of August. Rehearsals for the Young Performers Program are everyday (during the week) for the month of August and possible dates at the end of July depending on the difficulty of the music and choreography that will be learnt. The Junior Performers Program meets several times before the summer as they will be co creators of an original piece of theatre built just for them. The Junior Program generally rehearses three times a week for the month leading up to the performance.

This program invites young people to become involved in the area of theatre production that interests them. They may wish to learn about lighting, sound, set construction, stage management, publicity, costumes, or stage props. For example, a Young Performer act as the lighting operator and actually run the lights for the performance.