Providing students and teachers with a professionally guided artistic environment in which to achieve creative and personal goals.
Discover Arts in Education Delivered by Professionals
The CPA In-Schools program offers you a menu of specialist performance-based workshops, kinesthetic programs, and production support that has been designed to support teachers and students in their studies of the Performing Arts, English, English and Hindi Literature and creative thinking and in the development of confidence with students across all departments.
Associate Director Glenn Hayden is an international award-winning Theatre Director who has 36 years experience in the industry and who has specialised in theatre-based programs for children and young people. This includes his 10 year tenure as Artistic Director with Urban Myth Theatre Company in Australia, servicing over 350 young people each week with performance based activities.
Our Company Director Rayana Pandey is, among other managerial roles, a seasoned Actor, Festivals Director and Teaching Artist. With CPA alone,, she has facilitated workshops with over 3000 young people from around the world.
Our Teaching Artists are professional Arts Workers who have a passion for sharing their skills and knowledge to young people and those that work with young people.
The benefits of Theatre Workshops
The research about the positive influences from drama, theatre and the performing arts, especially on young people, is substantial and at CPA, we have had first hand experience of seeing these benefits in action for a collective 50+ years . The benefits are physical, emotional, social, and they help to develop a healthy appreciation of culture and the arts and the world.
Major benefits include:
Self-Confidence
Imagination
Literacy and Numeracy
Empathy
Cooperation
Concentration
Communication Skills
Emotional Outlet
Fitness
FUN
Teacher Services
Outstanding professional artists are at the heart and soul of CPA’s In-Schools Programs and our Mission as a company . . . Dedicated to the training, development and presentation of professional theatre and its artists..
It is essential to us that our Teaching Artists are working professionals so as to truly inspire students, teachers, support teachers, and carers.
We’re proud of the Artists that choose to be a part of our community.
