About DMR Adventures

DMR Adventures provides professional performing arts training FROM the professionals. Our high-caliber instruction is designed to inspire passion, discipline, confidence, and commitment in every student we serve.
 

At DMR, education and mentorship go hand in hand. Students learn not only performance skills, but how to collaborate, lead, and contribute meaningfully to an artistic community. Whether a student is stepping onstage for the first time or preparing for advanced training, DMR Adventures offers a welcoming, challenging, and professionally grounded environment.

Our Programs

⭐ MainStage Productions

DMR Adventures produces six full MainStage productions each year, offering students the opportunity to:

• Perform in fully staged musicals and plays

• Work alongside professional directors, designers, and performers

• Experience the rehearsal and production process at a professional level

Through partnerships with professional theatres—including our sister company, Venture Stage Company—students regularly train and collaborate with working artists.

🎪 Camps & Classes

• Year-round classes in acting, singing, dance, musical theatre, improv, comedy, and technical theatre

• Over 15 summer camps annually, including:

  • Musical theatre production camps

  • Drama Day Camps

  • Technical theatre and design camps

  • Specialty workshops and intensives

• Audition workshops and skill-focused training throughout the year

🏆  Pre-Professional Training

Our Pre-Professional Program supports students seeking advanced training and performance opportunities and includes:

• Junior Stars

• Dream Team

• All Stars

These audition-based ensembles focus on technique, ensemble work, and performance at a higher level of rigor.

🎒 YAS! – Youth After School Program

Students in YAS! explore a wide range of creative arts experiences through hands-on, project-based learning, including:

• Acting, music, and movement

• Animation and visual storytelling

• Beginning podcasting and audio storytelling

• Juggling and physical theatre skills

• Shakespeare and classical storytelling

• Rotating electives and collaborative creative projects

📚 Homeschool Theatre Program

Our growing Homeschool Theatre Program offers daytime theatre classes and productions designed specifically for homeschool students, emphasizing ensemble-based learning and age-appropriate performance training.

🤝 School & Community Partnerships

DMR Adventures works with schools and community organizations to bring theatre education directly to students. We offer tours, residencies, workshops, and custom-designed programs for students both in and out of school.

Partnerships and programs include:

• Musicals 101! – an introduction to musical theatre through local school partnerships

• Village School Drama Residency – drama classes and a full production for grades 5–8

• Collaborations with organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club, local daycares, and community centers
   

🎶 Signature Opportunities

• Annual production at the Paramount Theatre

• Junior Theatre Festival (JTF) Troupes, traveling to Atlanta, GA and Sacramento, CA

• NYC Trips, featuring:

  • Broadway performances

  • Classes with industry professionals

  • Performance opportunities — including a recent appearance at Radio City Music Hall

• Youth Leadership Program (YLP)
   

🌟 Youth Leadership Program (YLP)

The Youth Leadership Program is a cornerstone of DMR Adventures. This mentorship-based program offers motivated students opportunities to:

• Assist or help lead classes

• Serve on creative and technical teams for productions

• Develop leadership, responsibility, and professional skills

Many YLP alumni have gone on to create their own arts programming, work professionally in theatre, and serve as mentors within their communities.
 

💼 Professional Development & Adult Training

DMR Adventures also offers professional development workshops for adults and organizations, using theatre-based tools to strengthen communication, creativity, and collaboration.

Recent offerings include improv-based team building workshops designed to bring teams together, encourage adaptability, and promote creative problem-solving. Additional offerings may include public speaking, storytelling for leadership, and ensemble-based communication training.

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🎶 Private Training & Coaching

We offer individualized private instruction for students of all ages and experience levels, including:

• Acting coaching (including on-camera training)

• Vocal technique and healthy singing

• Audition coaching and help with filming auditions

• Song selection, repertoire development, and audition books

• Monologue coaching and audition preparation

• Supplemental coaching for students preparing for specific roles

• Private lessons with Broadway professionals

• Select virtual private lesson options

• College audition preparation

• Dance cleaning and choreography support

 

Our Story & Community Impact

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, DMR Adventures remained deeply committed to accessibility and connection, offering extensive virtual programming that reached students far beyond Charlottesville. This work strengthened our mission and expanded our community in lasting ways.

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DMR Adventures has worked in Danville, VA and Charlottesville, VA, collaborating with schools, arts organizations, and community partners across the region. We are proud to call the Belmont Arts Collaborative our permanent rehearsal and performance home.

Accessibility remains central to our mission. DMR Adventures actively works with underserved communities and families with sensory-related needs, and has provided approximately $300,000 in scholarships and discounts to ensure access to arts education.

 

Our Mission

At its core, DMR Adventures is dedicated to developing artists through education and performance in acting, dance, and voice. Our programs are led by both local and visiting guest artists who are experts in their fields. It is common to see Broadway professionals working side by side with students—sharing not only skills, but joy, curiosity, and mentorship.

DMR Adventures is a place for beginners, advanced students, and everyone in between—a place where artists grow, leaders emerge, and dreams take shape.

 

 

Student Success & Alumni Pathways

DMR Adventures is proud of the extraordinary accomplishments of our students—onstage, behind the scenes, and beyond our program.
 

Our alumni have gone on to attend some of the finest Musical Theatre and Acting programs in the country, including:

University of Michigan • Carnegie Mellon University • NYU • Shenandoah Conservatory • Boston Conservatory • University of Oklahoma • UNC Greensboro • Montclair State University • Missouri State University • Elon University • Rider University • Ohio Northern University • Viterbo University • Christopher Newport University • James Madison University • Dean College • Virginia Commonwealth University • University of Virginia, and more.
 

These successes reflect not only talent, but years of training, mentorship, leadership development, and a deep understanding of the collaborative nature of the performing arts.
 

Junior Theater Festival Awards & Recognition

DMR Adventures has enjoyed consistent national recognition at the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) over many years, with students honored across performance, choreography, technical theatre, leadership, and professionalism.

🎭 2025 Junior Theater Festival

• Freddie G Group Award for Excellence in Music
  Something Rotten JR.

• Outstanding Student Choreographer: Sally Kashatus

• Performance All Stars: Amalie Hendricks, Eli McNaull

• Technical Theatre All Star: June Jones

• iTheatrics Callbacks: Amalie Hendricks, Sally Kashatus, Katya Copeland, Sylvia Moses

• NYC Filming Opportunity: Amalie Hendricks selected to film with the iTheatrics team

🎭 2024 Junior Theater Festival

• Freddie G Group Award for Excellence in Ensemble
  Descendants

• Festival All Stars: Amalie Hendricks, Jackson van Santvoord

• iTheatrics Callbacks: Amalie Hendricks, Sally Kashatus
   

🎭 2023 Junior Theater Festival

• Freddie G Group Award for Excellence in Acting
  James and the Giant Peach JR.

• Festival All Stars: Alanah Richardson, Audrey Gaskin
   

🎭 2022 Junior Theater Festival

• Freddie G Group Award for Excellence in Ensemble
  Godspell JR.

• Festival All Stars: Sally Kashatus, Jackson Davis

• iTheatrics Callbacks: Amalie Hendricks, Jackson Davis

• NYC Filming Opportunity: Jackson Davis
   

🎭 2020 Junior Theater Festival

• Freddie G Group Award for Excellence in Acting
  Children of Eden

• Festival All Stars: Haven Teachman, Justin Parker

• iTheatrics Callbacks: Matty Ward, Soren Corbett

• NYC Filming Opportunity: Soren Corbett

• Playbill Trivia Showdown Winner: Elizabeth Brubaker

🎭 2019 Junior Theater Festival

• Tech All Stars: Madison Chin, Connor Wells

• Sharidan Giles Technical Scholarship Award: Connor Wells

• National Anthem Performer (Opening Ceremonies): Jonah Taylor

• NYC iTheatrics Filming: Soren Corbett, Miranda Powell
   

🎭 2018 Junior Theater Festival

• Freddie G Award – Excellent Individual Performance (Male): Justin Parker

• Tech Theatre All Star: Julianna Buyaki

• iTheatrics Callback & NYC Filming: Soren Corbett

• Special Performance for Paul Williams (Legacy Award):
  Teagan Bower, Alex Ege, Anais Fogg, Eleanora (Ele) Fogg, Justin Parker, Dylan Stukenberg

• JTF Intern: Katie Wall

• Freddie G Fellowship (Educator): Melissa Charles

🎭 Earlier Honors

• 2017:

  • Freddie G Group Award for Excellence in Acting

  • Freddie G Inspiration Award: Kendall Wynn

  • NYC choreography filming: Miranda Powell

• 2015:

  • Freddie G Award for Excellence in Ensemble

  • Individual Performance Awards: Jessica Harris, Landon Duval

• 2013 (as Union Street Theatre):

  • Excellence in Ensemble Award
    Once On This Island

A Culture of Excellence

At DMR Adventures, awards are not the goal. They are a byproduct of strong training, thoughtful mentorship, and a belief in young artists as collaborators, leaders, and storytellers.
 

Our students are celebrated not only for their talent, but for their work ethic, generosity, curiosity, and leadership: qualities that serve them far beyond the stage

DMR stands for Dreams Made Real; however, our organization is known as DMR Adventures, or simply DMR.

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