Youth Performing Arts Conservatory

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Middle Conservatory Classes
Grades 6-8

On-Camera Acting (6th-8th Graders)

Middle & Upper Conservatory Electives
Grades 6-12

Upper Conservatory Classes
Grades 9-12

YPAC Faculty Members are all working actors, directors, choreographers, vocal coaches, playwrights and artistic directors.  Students receive a performing arts education that is rich in experience, first-hand knowledge and, above all, FUN!

YPAC works in collaboration with area performing arts companies including PlayMakers Repertory Company with the Summer Youth Conservatory and ArtsCenter Stage.  These collaborations provide students performance opportunities throughout the year. 

From exploring techniques, expressing creativity, taking risks, collarborating with others and polishing performance skills, YPAC students learn how to be confident, generous, skilled and talented performers.

Registration is open to all interested students, regardless of previous experience.  Students are admitted without an audition.  The only requirement is a willingness to learn and have Fun!

YPAC's Fall semester runs from September 7- December 17.  For more specific information about class dates check out our Fall Course Catalog HERE!

Contact Jeri Lynn Schulke at ypac@artscenterlive.org or 929-2787 ext 219 with any questions.

TheatreTech Classes

YPAC's School of Rock & Roll

Youth Repertory Touring Troupe

This audition-based ensemble acting company rehearses a play for touring performances.  Auditions for this troupe of 10-12 students is open to any student in grades 4-12.  Students must be available for 3-4 performances throughout the community at various locations.  (Possible performance venues include the lawn at Weaver Street Market, Southern Village, Festifall and Carolina Meadows among others.)

Auditions:  Saturday, August 28 2010
Rehearsals:  September 7-10, 6:30-8:30 and September 11-12, 12:00-3:00
Tuition:  $200 

Home School Enrichment Class

Ensemble Theatre for Homeschooled Students
For students 6th-12th grade
Tuesdays 12:00-2:00, September 7-November 16
Tuition= $250

Exploring the Moment Work form developed by Moises Kaufman of the Tectonic Theater Project (creators of The Laramie Project), students will explore and analyze found texts to create original material for the stage.  Focusing on experiential learning and critical thinking students collaborate and become original theater-makers!

To download a registration form click HERE!

To find out more about the Home School Enrichment Class or to register contact
Lawruh Lindsey at ypacasst@artscenterlive.org or 929-2787 ext. 240.

TheatreTots Program

For toddlers and their caregivers!

To download a registration form HERE!
Or for more information contact Lawruh Lindsey at ypacasst@artscenterlive.org or 929-2787 ext. 240.

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Youth Performing Arts Conservatory Faculty

Anoo Brod is a  performing member of Transactors Improv Company and  Danny Canoe. She has been teaching  and performing improv for people of all ages in a variety of venues around the Triangle since 1997.


Chris Burner has acted in several off-Broadway productions including A Lie of the Mind, Ring Round the Moon, and Three Sisters.  Chris has also performed in productions with both the West Virginia and New York Shakespearean Festivals.  Chris can also be seen in Season Six of the Sopranos, and in the movie Across the Universe.  European credits include performances at the ETA Hoffman Theater in Bamburg, Germany. 

Erin Dangler graduation from Denison University with a BA in Theatre.  She toured nationally with the Cleveland Signstage Theatre as both an actress and an American Sign Language Interpreter.  Erin has operated performing arts businesses in three different parts of the country, teaching young performers the art of musical theatre and has directed and choreographed dozens of musicals, summer camps and revues.  Erin continues to act both onstage and in front of the camera. 


John Feltch has acted on stages across America, including Broadway (Enchanted April) Off Broadway (The Dazzle) American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Williamstown Summer Festival and eleven seasons as a company member at the Alley Theatre in Houston. He has directed shows for the Alley Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, Triad Stage and locally has directed Stones in His Pockets (Independent Weekly Best Directors of 2007) and Crimes of the Heart for PlayMakers, as well as acting for PRC in many roles including his favorite, I Am my Own Wife (IW Best Actors 2006). He has served on the faculties of University of Houston, Rice University and UNC Chapel Hill, among others.  He is a proud founding member of the YPAC faculty here at the Carrboro Arts Center.

Katja Hill is an actor, director, writer, improviser and teacher. Stage credits include appearances with Deep Dish Theater, Ghost & Spice, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Manbites Dog, Peace College, and Wordshed Productions, as well as a teaching artist residency with PlayMakers Repertory Company working in North Carolina public schools. Her first solo work, Cornucopia of Me, received critical acclaim as well as an Emerging Artist Award from the Durham Arts Council. Katja is a B.F.A. graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.


Lisa Levin Klein is a native of Chapel Hill who recently overcame her lifelong fear of pigeon-headedness. Lisa has been teaching both kids and adults in all kinds of subjects, but she finds theatre is by far the most entertaining. If you come to  her house, you’ll be beset by cats and goats and tall grass and groundhogs, but no pigeons.

David McClutchey received his certification from the Society of American Fight Directors as an Advanced Actor/Combatant studying rapier, dagger, broadsword, shield, quarterstaff, small sword and unarmed combat.  Since moving to Durham from Washington DC in 2001, David has choreographed stage combat in over 20 productions in the Triangle, as well as having acted in over 30 productions.  He holds a BAA in Theatre from Central Michigan University and teaches students ages 4-84 classes from Silverstein to Shakespeare throughout the Triangle. 


Julya M. Mirro received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, specializing in Acting Techniques and Black theatre.  After acting, directing, and teaching in the DC, NYC, and Richmond areas, Julya came to NC to run the Theatre Program at Shaw University.  She has taught at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Cary's Applause! program and Wake Tech Community College.  She has worked with various Triangle theaters including Raleigh Ensemble Players, Flying Machine, Burning Coal, and serves on the board of Ape & Astronaut.  She founded Free Association Theatre Ensemble (FATE), dedicated to innovative productions. 

Virginia Queen Danford received an MFA in Acting from The School of Arts at Pennsylvania State University, where she taught acting for two years.  She has worked as a professional actor, drama instructor and coach, movement choreographer, director and producer.  She has worked in all areas of theare development and outreach and is a founder of Broad Horizons Theatre Company.  She has worked as a director of Project ENGAGE! for the School of Education at UNC and served as a choreographer for Oliver!, the Summer Youth Conservatory's first co-production with Playmaker's Repertory Company.   


Wes Schultz is an actor, singer and educator.  He has taught at the primary and secondary levels in theater games, arts integration, Shakespeare and choral singing.  He has taught Voice and Speech at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  He has been seen onstage at Burning Coal Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, the Stoneleaf Theater Festival and with the vocal ensemble, Cantari.  He is currently the fine-arts instructor at Triangle Day School.  Wes is a graduate of the Professional Actor Training Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. 


Kate Williams Stone has a BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Her television appearances include: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light, All My Children and The View with Barbara Walters. She has also appeared in numerous other television commercials and informercials.  Regional Theatre Credits include The Foreigner, Almost, Maine, Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart  and Humbug. New York Credits include: Wingman and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. She recently moved to Carrboro from NYC and is thrilled to be teaching at The ArtsCenter. 


Chaunesti Webb Lyon received an MFA in Theater and Contemporary Performance from Naropa University where she trained in Viewpoints, Psychophysical acting (Grotowski), Roy Hart Voicework, Butoh, Experiential Anatomy and Contemplative dance practices.  Her interest as a Teaching Artist is in facilitating  groups and individuals in creating original work for the stage.  She has taught Self-Scripting and movement for adults and youth at Raleigh Little Theatre; Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, CO; and Durham Parks and Recreation.  As an actor, she has worked with various Triangle theater companies including Manbites Dog Theatre, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Raleigh Ensemble Players, Archipelago Theatre, Burning Coal Theatre, Walltown Children’s Theatre and Raleigh Little Theatre. 

YPAC thanks the Chapel Hill Tire & Car Care Center for their generous support for our program.  Thanks also to the Orange County Arts Commission, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation for their generous support of scholarships for students. Thanks also to Kaola and Frank Phoenix with the Fenwick Foundation and Jordan Smith for their generous contributions to our program.