Our Education & Outreach Program engages children throughout Central Texas, cultivating lifelong appreciators of the arts. With the support of patrons like you, our programs provide a well-rounded theatre experience for all children by not only entertaining, but also educating.

Camp Paramount & Summer Theatre Camps:

We hold acting camps for children of all ages each summer and conclude each session with public performances on one our stages. Scholarships are provided to those who are eligible. Camps include classes in acting, improvisation, creative drama, Shakespeare, and musical theatre taught by professionally trained actors. Our Camp Paramount ends with children performing musical theatre on our historic Paramount stage. [Learn More]

School Shows:

Over 16,000 children (75% from Title-I schools) attend private school performances of our Playtime Series shows. Each show is based on a children’s book. Study guides are tailored to the curriculum and TEKS and are provided to each participating student.  The cost is on a sliding scale and many are 100% underwritten and attend at no cost to them. We also bring the theatre to them with in-class pre-show workshops where the children are prepared for the play and the theatre experience. [Learn More]

Access to the Arts:

Our more than forty partner non-profit agencies that serve disadvantaged youth are provided with complimentary tickets to bring the children they serve to live shows and movies at the Paramount. For a full list of partner agencies or to join our program, please visit the following link. [Learn More]

Literacy to Life:

We take an eight-week school-based literacy program to specific elementary classrooms and transform the students’ understanding and approach to literacy. We take their journals at the end of the eight weeks and adapt them into short plays for the stage. Professional actors are used to act out the stories and it is performed for the entire school. [Learn More]

Youth Theatre Company:

Each summer through a partnership with the City of Austin we hire twenty low-income high school students for five weeks to work on acting and writing theatre skills. They ultimately write and produce an original production that they perform around town at area facilities and then end with on the historic Paramount stage. The original play captures their unique voices through drama, poetry, hip hop, dance and music. [Learn More]

Teaching The TEKS Through Theatre (T5):

We take teaching artists into classrooms and use drama-based instruction techniques to enhance the school’s curriculum, from Social Studies to Science to Literature. These techniques improve attitudes towards academic and artistic coursework and provide an effective model of instruction and learning through art/theatre for Austin area teachers. [Learn More]

QUESTIONS? EMAIL JENNIFER LUCK AT JLUCK@AUSTINTHEATRE.ORG OR CALL 692-0527.