The Chance Theater - Education: Page to Stage

Page to Stage

Area students see a show’s creation from the Page to the Stage!

In this residency, Chance Theater partners with Performing Arts or English teachers to guide students through the creative process of putting on a show. Beginning with a copy of a script we are producing in our season, the students will read the script and in successive days or weeks, Chance Theater will send a teaching artist along with production staff members and actors to the classroom.

A Director, dramaturg, actor(s), and designer(s) will visit the classroom and lead a discussion about the play, discuss their role in the creation of the show, lead the students through exercises and discuss their creative process. Culminating with a trip to see the show, students will get a chance to further discuss the play or musical in a post-show discussion with the creative team. This unique program allows students to see a play from every aspect of its creation, to truly follow it from the page to the stage.

For more information or to sponsor this program, contact
Tanae Beyer, Education Director at: tanae@chancetheater.com

Past Page to Stages
2010: Anaheim High School – The Secret Garden, the Musical
2009: Anaheim High School – Anton Chekov’s The Seagull

This year, due to the generous funding from the Anaheim Rotary Club, we will be partnering with Anaheim Union High School for our holiday literature series production Anne of Green Gables.

Anaheim Rotary Club

About our Education Director

Tanae Beyer is Chance Theater's Education Director where she also serves as a Literary Manager, and is a Resident Company Member as a Stage Manager. She has several years of theater experience in acting, directing, teaching, and technical theater. Working with the Chance since 2005, Tanae's past Chance productions include Little Women- The Broadway Musical (Associate Director), The Who's Tommy (Stage Manager, also at Segerstrom Center for the Arts), Jesus Hates Me (Stage Manager, also at South Coast Repertory), A Christmas Story (Stage Manager), Last Five Years (Board Operator), Into the Woods (Asst. Stage Manager), and Biloxi Blues (Stage Manager).

As the Chance's Education Director since 2008, Tanae has led many Girl Scout Workshops and taught the Speak Up - Take A 'Chance' summer workshop (a program where junior high and high school students write and perform their own show). In 2010, Tanae established Chance's Summer Youth Scene, for which she directed Jason Robert Brown's 13, the musical.

She is a graduate of Concordia University, Irvine with a double major in Theater and Communications and she studied Theater of the Oppressed and Applied Theater at CUNY and Creative Arts Team of New York. Tanae is currently pursuing her MA in Theater with an emphasis in Youth Education from California State University, San Bernardino and her secondary teaching credential from California Baptist University. When her schedule permits, she teaches classes at CAT Corona Theater.