’25-’26 S3 Center Stage – HeartWise Homeschool

Center Stage invites students to step into the spotlight through acting, creativity, and hands-on production. Using a fun, workshop-style approach, students will explore a variety of performance styles while building confidence, imagination, and strong public-speaking skills.

Students will have the exciting opportunity to record a voiceover for an animated video series (pictured to the left) with their own original character! Performers will also learn a choreographed action scene (complete with karate moves!), bring characters to life through puppetry and voice development, and have fun learning magic tricks that build confidence and stage presence. Older students will take a deeper dive into acting with scene studies, recreations of favorite movie moments, original video production, and interviews of speakers who have worked on real film and animation projects.

The class culminates in a showcase where students proudly share highlights from their workshops on stage. Bursting with creativity, collaboration, and movie magic, Center Stage is an unforgettable performance adventure.

Note:
Center Stage 1 (ages 3-4) will be a 30 minute class combined with the younger elementary students.
Center Stage 2 (K-3rd) will be a 50 minute class with the first portion combined with Center Stage 1.
Center Stage 3 (4th-8th) will be a 50 minute class and will feature some industry guest speakers.

Mr. Mitch was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and has been working professionally as an actor since age 8. His first break was when he attended an open casting call and landed a role on the TV situational comedy 'Less Than Kind,' which led him to move to Los Angeles. Since then, he has been featured in various movies including ‘When Calls the Heart,’ playing Gabe Montgomery, ‘Minority Report’ TV series where he played a teen precog, and ‘Horns’ where he co-starred with Sabrina Carpenter as he played young Daniel Radcliffe. More recently, Mitch added stand up comedy to his repertoire, and performs regularly at the Comedy Store, the Laugh Factory, and other comedy shops around Los Angeles.

Mitch has such a big passion for acting and as an acting teacher, he draws from his own experience as a child actor himself. He takes time to understand the individual strengths of each student and plays to those strengths. Kids are drawn to Mitch, who is himself a kid at heart, and who enjoys teaching and making them laugh.