Black Box Studios offers theater arts programs at private schools and day schools in Bergen County and throughout the Greater New York City area. Each program is custom-tailored to meet the needs of the school and student body. Classes take place during school hours as part of the regular curriculum and/or as an after-school program, such as a drama club.
UPCOMING SCHOOL SHOWS
The Moriah Middle School Drama Club presents Grease
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
January 7th at 8PM & January 8th at 4:30PM @ Moriah
$5 at the door
The Moriah Elementary School Drama Club presents Shut The Door
By Gerald P. Murphy
January 7th 2010 at 7:30PM @ Moriah
TABC High presents No Time for Sergeants
By Ira Levin, Adapted from the Novel by Mac Hyman
Date/Time TBA @ The Jewish Center of Teaneck
$5 at the door
Students from Moriah’s school drama club perform Les Miserables.
Programs- for grade school, middle school and high school- are taught using an improv-based method that Black Box’s founders developed during their years working in professional theater in New York. Students begin by working with our teaching artists on the fundamentals of acting and performance, such as voice, movement, character development, script analysis, and song interpretation.
Students then put these skills into use as they perform scenes, songs, and productions of plays and musicals under the direction of Black Box’s instructors. Courses are performance-based and culminate in an end-of-semester production that is fully-staged and open to family, friends, and the school community.
These programs also feature a technical theater component that teaches students about the skills needed to work backstage, such as stage management, lighting design, set design, costume design, and more. Students then use what they’ve learned to design and run the technical aspects of the productions.
Black Box’s School Programs bring the performing arts to students, regardless of their age, background, or experience level.
Partial Client List:
Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, Teaneck, NJ
Elisabeth Morrow School, Englewood, NJ
Moriah School, Englewood, NJ
Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life, Whippany, NJ
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, New Milford, NJ
Yavneh Academy, Paramus, NJ
Yeshivat Noam, Paramus, NJ
Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC), Long Island, NY
North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA), Great Neck, NY
Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ), Queens, NY
Testimonials:
“Our new drama program has opened up a whole new dimension of experience for many of our Middle School students and has become yet another wonderful media through which our children can feel and powerfully express the awe and wonder of creation which we strive to instill in them.” Dr. Elliot Prager, Principal of The Moriah School.
The entire Moriah Drama Club in the end-of-year production.