Teen Theater Program

This is a great opportunity for High School teens to Audition and get experience in performing for a large audience, a stipend will be paid to each student, with no heavy time commitments until the last 2 weeks before the show. We will be looking for students for another great year of this program.

This is our 9th year for the teen program that will continue into next year’s season of 2025-26. This year’s show is going to be:

Charlotte’s Web

Sign-Up for Auditions

Performances will be:
January 16, 2026 at 6pm and January 17, 2026 at 2pm

Director: Heidi Neill
**Rehearsal schedule**
Mondays from 4 pm – 7 pm until two weeks before the show

A little bit about our show:

This exciting, new musical version of Charlotte’s Web brings a new dimension to E.B. White’s beloved classic. With music and lyrics by Charles Strouse (Annie, ‘Bye, ‘Bye Birdie) and book by Joseph Robinette (national award-winning children’s playwright) your audiences will thrill to a musical score which includes “Eating,” Wilbur the pig’s humorous yet poignant song about growing up; “Who Says We Can’t Be Friends,” an enchanting duet between Wilbur and his new-found companion Charlotte; “Welcome to the Zuckerman Barn,” featuring all the story’s unforgettable animals in a hand-clapping, toe-tapping hoe-down; and “Summer,” a haunting, nostalgic chorus number which evokes a time and place from everyone’s childhood. This joyous musical offers your audiences a very special experience.

Introducing the cast of: Charlotte’s Web

Introducing our Director and Stage Manager Team:

Heidi Neill:
Director

Heidi Neill has been involved in the theater since 1992, when she was 12 years old. She continued to act throughout high school, but took a short break to be an adult and left Klamath for a few years. In 2010, when she returned to Klamath, she started volunteering at The Linkville Playhouse right away. In 2012, she directed her first show: an adaptation of Odd and the Frost Giant for Little Linkville’s plays for children; a program she was a founding member of and continues to be a part of to this day. She started working as a part of Ross Ragland’s Tech crew in 2015. Later that year, she assistant directed You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown on the Ross Ragland Stage. In 2017, she directed Harvey at the Linkville Playhouse, her first full-length play. In 2020, she was asked to direct The Teen Theatre Program. That year, she somehow pulled off directing 20ish teenagers in a thrilling production of Puffs during a Pandemic! Squirrel Girl Goes to College is her third Teen Theater production at the Ross Ragland. Hanging out with her husband Mark at their favorite haunts around the Basin like The Garage Taphouse, Nite Owl, or Everybody’s Vintage, or traveling Oregon and hiking.

Alex Burris:
Stage Manager/Assistant Director

Aria Sha developed her passion for theater at the age of 7 when she participated in her first play at the Linkville Playhouse. She hopes to inspire that same spark for the stage in others by teaching this year’s after-school improv class. Other than theater, she enjoys being active and creative.