Greetings from the Fox Education Department. We offer classes for all ages and all skill levels throughout the year. Our Fall classes include:

Stage Makeup                  

Just in time for Halloween           

October 8-29     

Ages 10-17         

Instructor Missy Moore is a long time fixture with the little Foxes summer Theatre program serving as mentor and professional actor she has appeared in The Sound Collector, Winnie the Pooh, The Hobbit and Alice in Wonderland.  Missy also co-directed The Wedding Singer last Spring with her sister Mandy Moore.

You can create creepy or  fantasy makeup for Halloween!

Stage Combat Youth      

November 1- 22              

Ages 8-12           

Instructor Seth Maisel appeared as Farmer Hogget in Babe, The Sheep-Pig this summer and is currently featured as the wigmaker in Rashomon.

Storybook Alive               

November 1-December 13         

Ages: 4-6            

Act out a different storybook every week!

All the World is a Stage  

November 1-December 13         

Ages: 6-8            

Explore different cultures by creating plays based on different stories from around the world.  

This session: Egypt               

Both Storybook Alive and All the World is a Stage will be taught by Jennifer Patten who was the lead instructor for the Little Foxes camps this past summer.

To register for classes, call 303-326-8650 or visit our online registration page.

I also strongly encourage everyone to take a look at our new Aurora Fox Education Page on Facebook .  I am open to any comments or suggestions you may have.  I would like to share youth auditions, special events, performance information, class information, anecdotes, resource materials,  etc.

If you have something to share you may post it or send to Lisa Mumpton at lmumpton@auroragov.org  Currently I am seeking your most embarrassing or disasterous Halloween costume stories. If you tell me yours, I'll tell you mine!

As a seventh grade boy who had yet to break the five foot mark, Ben was too short to play basketball. And growing up in Kansas, life for a junior high boy was all about hoops.

It was devastating at first, realizing that his drive to be a star athlete didn't match up with his physical abilities. Ben's mother, however, knew that he had other abilities that he might enjoy fostering.
 

Having played the lead role in several Church plays, the local children's theatre's Christmas production seemed a logical place for him to work off some of his seemingly endless after-school energy. After auditioning

Ben Dicke

and receiving the "character lead," a toy-stealing villain named "Bad Boy Butch," his fate as a lifetime theatre artist was permanently sealed.

Now, with a degree in theatre education and a master's in theatre performance, acting, directing and teaching theatre are more than full-time jobs for Ben. The bug bit so hard, in fact, that work for him has been a series of part-time and temporary jobs that provide just enough income to support his "habit". He explains that it could have been worse as a seventh grade boy..."I could have taken up smoking"!

Ben played Robbie Hart in last year's production of The Wedding Singer and the angst-ridden Henry in The Skin of Our Teeth. He is also a teacher in our after-school Little Foxes Education Program. He'll be teaching Cinemagic and Physical Comedy classes for us this Winter. 

Most recently he's been seen around the Fox putting other actors through some tough auditions for Xanadu, which he will direct in the Spring. 

Luckily, he cast the show in time to get his focus back on the 100-mile run he'll be undertaking this weekend. Actors sure have interesting hobbies!