Traveling Players Ensemble

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Traveling Players Ensemble

Traveling Players Ensemble provides innovative & personalized theater training with our award-winnin Great Theatre in the Great Outdoors!

Traveling Players Ensemble's camp provides intensive, classical theatre training to small troupes of actors who are carefully guided by professional theatre artists to perform in outdoor settings. Our program reflects the origins of theatre, when troupes of actors roamed the ancient and medieval countryside, relying on the barest props and boldest imagination to convey their art. Each session culm

inates in a fully mounted and designed performance which tours to several locations, cultivating stronger, more adaptable and capable artists and individuals. Traveling Players emphasizes a meaningful engagement with nature. Our unique day camp (Monday-Friday) features a campout every Thursday - when performers learn Leave No Trace camping techniques, pitching tents and cooking outdoors. In their final week, teens tour their show and campout close to their performance sites - giving them the experience of wandering entertainers who carry their dinner, tent and props in their trusty pack. As artists and backpackers, campers learn self-reliance, creative problem solving, and to appreciate challenges and beauty. Our Accomplishments:
•Selected as a "Summer School in the Arts" by the NEA - One of 25 in the Nation
•11 students won their school's English Speaking Union Shakespeare Competition
•Twice featured on WAMU's "Metro Connection"
•Called "a little-known summer gem" by the Washington Post
•Awarded 116 scholarships totaling $90,295
•Over 2200 happy campers!
•381 performances, including:
-Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage - Colonial Williamsburg -International Children's Festival at Wolf Trap - Reston Multicultural Festival -Folger Shakespeare Library's Secondary School Festival

Visit us in person at our new Studio in Tysons Corner Center!

06/04/2026

Throwback to last summer's Shakespeare Troupe and their Puppet War in Cymbeline!

05/09/2026

Welcome to Your Studio 💜.

An extended look at our beautiful new space, produced by the Kingsmen committee.

Filmed and edited by Bruno X. Miller.

05/01/2026

And the curtains close on the Original Traveling Players Studio!

Thank you to all of our students, families, alumni, audiences, and friends who joined us for classes, workshops, festivals, community events, rehearsals, and more than 30 productions over the last 6 years!

Want to know what's next for Traveling Players? Join us Saturday, May 2, at our brand-new rehearsal Studio - still in Tysons Corner Center (now on the second level near Nordstroms).

Open House Details:
When: Sat. May 2
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Traveling Players Rehearsal Studio, Tysons Corner Center

We can't wait to welcome you all into our next chapter!

04/19/2026

Our New Place 💜💛

First look at our new studio, open house May 2nd.

04/06/2026

Come see our summer home before the first day of camp!

Join us Saturday Apr. 26 Christchurch School to chat with our faculty, tour our beautiful summer campus, and find out what makes Traveling Players joyous, artistically challenging, and a place for friendships to flourish!

We can't wait to see you there!

04/04/2026

Troy of our heart 💙

That's a wrap on Women of Troy (2026)! Congratulations to the cast and crew for such a beautiful farewell to the Studio.

Thank you Jillian Skara and Isaiah Brown for the photos!

03/28/2026

It has been a whirlwind 24 hours at Traveling Players!

Yesterday, we found out that we had 1 more month to move out of our current Studio. In light of this new information (and to give Morgan & Jeanne a little post-show rest!), we are postponing tonight's Farewell to the Studio party.

Stay tuned for more information coming very soon, and have a WONDERFUL spring break!

03/22/2026

Today is your LAST chance EVER to see any play at Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center!

11 am – Atalanta

3 pm – The Odyssey

7:30 pm – Women of Troy

Tickets are available at the link in our bio or at the door!

03/21/2026

Know how Traveling Players Ensemble got a Studio in 2020? Well, we're moving Studios, and these are our LAST PERFORMANCES IN OUR STUDIO. Always wanted to see our Studio? Pull up this weekend! I would LOVE to see you and for you to see our shows! The kids are GREAT!

https://www.travelingplayers.org/events/performances/

12/30/2025

Join the $35k donor challenge!

Now through the end of the year, our Board of Directors is matching every dollar donated up to $15k!

Need Ideas? Here are more ways to give!
⭐$35 Give a Chance! A scholarship to audition
⭐$100 Open the door for a new kid to take an acting class
⭐$180 Alumni Special: Give this amount if Traveling Players changed your life!
⭐$500 Help one of our amazing kids find their voice through a school-year program!
⭐$1,000 Ensemble of Donors - partial scholarship, helping a worthy kid to go to camp
⭐$2,500 - Give Arts Access - half scholarship for a 3-week sleepaway theatre camp!

Address

1961 Chain Bridge Road
Tysons Corner, VA
22102

Telephone

+17039871712

Website

http://www.travelingplayers.org/

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