Theatre Aspen Office
Our administrative office is open Monday through Friday 10 am – 6 pm.
110 East Hallam Street
Suite 126
Aspen, Colorado 81611
Phone: 970.925.9313
Email: info@theatreaspen.org
Theatre Aspen’s Hurst Theatre
470 Rio Grande Place
Aspen, CO 81611
Theatre Aspen Education offers a variety of high-value programs to all ages, featuring industry professionals as teachers, directors, designers and more, teaching skills and providing opportunities to students that will build their skills and enrich their lives.
We also want to ensure that our programs are within the reach of any student who wants to participate, and Theatre Aspen Education proudly has never turned a student away due to financial need.
In order to achieve this, Theatre Aspen Education offers need-based scholarships and payment plans to our families. For 2022 we have updated our scholarship policy, and families will now be able to self-select the scholarship level they would like to receive, without the need to provide any financial or circumstantial information.
Scholarships are generously underwritten by sponsors and donors, including Juliet Shield-Taylor and the Robins Foundation, Nancy Blank, and Jackie and Jerry Kehle. Scholarship recipients (students or families) are encouraged to write thank-you notes to a sponsor so they can see the impact of their generosity.
If you are in need of a payment plan, please email education@theatreaspen.org to request one. If you are in need of a scholarship, please click the button above to be taken to the Scholarship Form.
Theatre Aspen Education is committed to the health and safety of our students and staff first and foremost. Our classroom procedures will be based on the most up-to-date recommendations from the national, state, and local levels.
If students have been exposed to or exhibit symptoms of COVID-19 or are otherwise contagiously sick please do not attend class. If students are at the program and are exhibiting signs of COVID-19, Theatre Aspen reserves the right to have them put on a mask. We request that any family who believes their student may have COVID-19 test their student before they return to programming. We also encourage students to wear a mask if they plan to attend programming while sick with any other potentially contagious illness. We appreciate your understanding in keeping students safe and programs running.
EDUCATION GENERAL PHONE LINE (Google Voice, call or text): 970-924-0583
James comes to Theatre Aspen from Missoula MT, where he graduated from the University of Montana and worked for the Missoula Children’s Theatre in many capacities. His time with MCT was spent both touring multiple shows throughout the U.S. as well as in Missoula where he taught, performed, and directed. He helped pioneer and shape touring during the pandemic as well as with a world premiere production. Unchanged: James comes to Theatre Aspen from Missoula MT, where he graduated from the University of Montana and worked for the Missoula Children’s Theatre in many capacities. His time with MCT was spent both touring multiple shows throughout the U.S. as well as in Missoula where he taught, performed, and directed. He helped pioneer and shape touring during the pandemic as well as with a world premiere production.
Joseph M Grosso was bit by the theatre bug while watching Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl at the age of eight. Ever since then he has devoted his life to the performing arts as both an actor and educator. Joseph is a proud musical theatre graduate of both Florida School of the Arts as a Hall of Fame recipient and Manhattan School of Music as a JMP scholarship recipient. Mr. Grosso has appeared in a number of professional plays and musicals, most notably as Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, Bobby in the world-wide premiere of a new version of Cabaret and has worked with such illustrious artists as Kristen Chenoweth, Nathan Lane, and Joanna Gleason among others. A recent Florida transplant, Mr. Grosso was most recently the theatre director and FAME Coordinator at River Ridge Middle School in New Port Richey, FL where he was elected Teacher of the Year. He was also a teaching artist at the Off-Broadway Theatre Company TADA! in New York City and has directed, choreographed, and vocally coached a plethora of productions with students kindergarten through college. One of his favorite productions includes Adventures of a Comic Book Artist with Lakewood Ranch High School, which was invited to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
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