Theatre Workshop & Showcase
June 22-27, 2025
Grow as an artist, collaborator and person of faith as you work alongside professional and college artists to create theatre that uplifts, reshapes and renews the world around us. Built around creating a fully realized final performance, this week-long workshop and showcase will explore all the aspects that go into making a show.
Choose a focus in acting, directing or design/tech, and gain skills through hands-on instruction as you collaborate to create a final performance in just five days. Learn the skills, concepts and techniques required for excellent and thoughtful theatre making as you are coached through auditioning, scene work, technical design, directing and staging, and – at the end of the week – a final performance.
In this immersive week-long experience, you will learn how to:
- Craft a scene, finding emotional nuance, authenticity and precision
- Block or stage to support storytelling, voice projection, character analysis, etc.
- Build light cues and leverage color theory for costumes and script analysis
- Design a set, lights and/or costumes
- Collaborate to create a performance in just five days
By completing this experience, you’ll be eligible for one college credit in theater.
Cost
The cost for the Theatre Workshop & Showcase is $1,800 per student ($1,600 for students from partner schools). This includes a week of immersive college-level courses taught by George Fox faculty, convenient on-campus lodging, three meals per day in the dining hall, and evening programming.
Faculty Lead
Ben Tissell
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Ben Tissell is an alumnus of George Fox University, receiving his bachelor’s degree in theatre. Since that time he has made his living as an actor, director, writer and artistic director in the professional theatre industry. He has performed with Portland Center Stage at the Armory, Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre, Lakewood Theatre, Anonymous Theatre and many others.
He has also worked as the music director at local schools, and serves as the artistic director of the Wild Goose Repertory Theatre Company, which he founded with the intent to “tell stories of faith, hope and love.”
Experience living and learning at the #1 Christian college in Oregon this summer!
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- Earn college credit in a hands-on learning environment
- Learn closely from George Fox professors
- Live on campus for a week and get a taste of college life
- Enjoy a variety of evening activities, from outdoor recreation to worship nights
- Meet new friends who share your interests
- Explore a future career and calling as you prepare for college
Partner Schools
Partner schools received discounted registration for the Pre-College Summer Institute, among other benefits.
- Ambleside of the Willamette Valley
- Classical Conversations
- Central Christian School
- Columbia Adventist Academy
- Columbia Christian School
- Damascus Christian
- Faith Bible Christian School
- Life Christian School
- North Clackamas Christian
- Portland Adventist Academy
- Portland Christian School
- Santa Fe Christian School
- Spring Mountain Christian Academy
- Southwest Christian School
- Trinity Academy
- Valor Christian School Int'l
- Westside Christian High School
- Yamhill Carlton High School
- Veritas