Spring Class registration opens January 20

 
Students ages 8-18 registering for a class in Folsom are eligible to audition for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.

Students ages 8-18 registering for a class in “Roseville” (at Bayside Adventure) are eligible to audition for James and the Giant Peach Jr.  (to be rehearsed/performed at Radiant Church) or Alice by Heart (to be rehearsed/performed at Bayside Adventure).  

Due to website limitations, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat will appear as an audition option for students signing up for Roseville classes. If you accidentally sign up for Joseph, you will be notified.

*NOTE - Production Fee will be $210.

CYT Sacramento offers classes over the course of three sessions during the school year: Fall, Winter, and Spring.  A variety of classes are offered in drama, voice, dance, and specialty classes each session. Most of the classes are small to ensure personal attention and growth. At the end of a CYT session, students will come away with improved skills in the area of emphasis. 

Classes may include but are not limited to:
  • Our Gang (Ages 5-7) 
  • Dance/Movement
  • Drama 
  • Voice
  • Musical Theater
  • Auditions and Callbacks 
  • Comedy and Improv 
  • Technical Theater; such as Makeup, Set Design, etc.
  • Stunts and Combat.
Classes are held once a week for two hours over a period of eight to ten weeks. The session culminates with a showcase in which each class performs a brief prepared presentation, showcasing what they have learned over the session. Every CYT student participates in the Class Showcase!  

Students aged 8 – 18 who are enrolled in a class have the opportunity to audition for a CYT Broadway-style musical! Younger students may serve as ushers at CYT shows, and students ages 14 and up may work on a backstage crew. Visit the Shows page for more information on auditions. 

CLASSES/CAMPS REFUND POLICY-
NO REFUNDS OF ANY KIND OR CHANGES 2 weeks before the first day camp/class begins. Prior to 2 weeks a $25.00 cancellation fee per class is applied to refunds. Refunds are returned to the original form of payment. Camp/class changes are subject to availability. Tuition must be paid in full in order to register online for camp/class.
If you are in need of financial assistance, please submit your application to ensure it is reviewed before registration opens.  Scholarship Information and Application  

Teachers

A CYT Teacher’s mission is to train and instruct students in such a way as to promote the development of character, self­ esteem, and confidence. CYT teachers are qualified and experienced in the area in which they teach. They have been trained in the CYT methods of instruction and agree with the CYT values and outcome goals. All CYT teachers have been background checked and adhere to our CYT Mission and Values. Our teachers truly care about their students and provide a constructive and fun environment for them to learn.

Showcase

Parents, friends, and relatives are invited to attend CYT's Showcase performance on the last day / evening of classes, free of charge! Showcase is the grand finale of each session of classes, at which every class makes a 5­-10 minute presentation of something they have learned and rehearsed during the session. Don't miss the action!

How to Register

Set up a Family Account before you register for classes:
  1. Click on the "person" icon at top right corner of our website (to right of "DONATE" on any page).
  2. Click on "NEW ACCOUNT" in the pop up window.
  3. Fill out the information required, with the parent's info first.
  4. To add a child to the account, click on the +Family Member button.
If you are already have a Family Account, then (while logged in) follow these steps:
  1. Go to the "Classes" page
  2. First select your "Student's Age"
  3. Click on the Class Name of your choice
  4. Click on the "Register Now" button
  5. Select the family member that will be in the class
  6. You will now have an option to sign up for audition times. Auditions are not required.
  7. If you don't sign up now, you will have that option later in your family account.

Current Classes:

Class: Age: Chapter: Location: Day: Time: Start: End:
Act I: Fosse, Fosse, Fosse - Teen Dance 13-18 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 4:00pm - 6:15pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act I: Period Hair & Makeup for the Stage 11-18 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 4:00pm - 6:15pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act I: Stagestruck! - Our Gang 5-7 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 4:00pm - 6:00pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act I: Ballet & Jazz for Theater 8-12 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 4:00pm - 6:15pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act I: Beat It, Kids! 8-12 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 4:00pm - 6:15pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act I: Becoming Heroes 8-12 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 4:15pm - 6:30pm Oct 28 Jan 13
Act I: Disney Parades 8-12 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 4:15pm - 6:30pm Oct 28 Jan 13
Act I: Intro to Irish Dance 13-18 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 4:15pm - 6:30pm Oct 28 Jan 13
Act I: Just Beat It! 13-18 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 4:15pm - 6:30pm Oct 28 Jan 13
Act II: Acting Essentials for Kids 8-12 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 6:30pm - 8:45pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act II: Just Beat It! Teen Specialty 13-18 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 6:30pm - 8:45pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act II: Speak Out! Teen Drama 13-18 Roseville
(Winter 2025)
Bayside Adventure Church Thu 6:30pm - 8:45pm Nov 07 Jan 23
Act II: A PROP-er Dance Class 13-18 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 6:30pm - 8:45pm Oct 28 Jan 13
Act II: Act, Sing, Focus, Perform - CCT 19-79 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 6:30pm - 8:45pm Oct 28 Jan 13
Act II: Practically Perfect Vocals 8-12 Folsom
(Winter 2025)
Jesus Culture Mon 6:30pm - 8:45pm Oct 28 Jan 13

Current Teachers:

Alison Hall

Alison had been a dancer from kindergarten through college. She has learned many different styles of dance including tap, ballet, jazz, lyrical, and contemporary. She went on to be a gymnastics coach at Tricks for a few years. Most recently, Alison has received a MA in Special Education Teaching and is working as a special education teacher at an elementary school in the San Juan Unified School District. She is excited for this opportunity to work at CYT.


Bianca Quinzon

Bianca, a CYT Sacramento alumni, is a recent graduate of William Jessup University, with her degree in Theatre, and her concentration in Musical Theatre. She performed in thirteen CYT productions and several other productions outside of CYT. Some of her favorite roles include Marian Paroo in Music Man, Sabine in The Three Musketeers, Olive in 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee, and most recently Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Bianca is passionate about her relationship with Christ and would like to bring that passion to the performing arts community some day. She loves CYT and the family she has built there. She is excited about giving back where she discovered her love of the performing arts.


Dani Clayton

Dani has been thrown into the arts since she was four. Her adoration for story telling has driven her through life and has only grown with her. After graduating from CYT, she studied locally at Sierra College, and then continued on to get her Bachelor's in Theatre Arts at CSU Long Beach. Her passion for the arts and her nurturing nature has lead her to teaching. She's grateful for CYT and all the memories she made as a student, and she is looking forward to the new ones that are just around the corner!


Iris Dahlstrom

Iris is so excited to be teaching at CYT. She is a CYT alumni, and has been involved and been in love with theater since she was young. She has been providing childcare in one form or another for about 5 years. She is so grateful she gets to share her enthusiasm and passion for theater arts with your kids!


Jeanette Hall

Jeanette Hall has been a CYT Mom since 2016. She has been on many different parent teams and driven countless miles to and from rehearsals and performances. With a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from CSUS and a teaching credential from Simpson University, God has led her to join the Teaching Staff at CYT. Jeanette has performed in many musicals over the years both at CSUS and in the community. Some of her favorite roles include Newsboy in Working, Elsie Darling in Very Good Eddie, and Peter in Peter Pan. She currently works for a local construction company in Labor Compliance. CYT gives her the opportunity to use her education and experience to help students learn to glorify God through the arts.


Kim Dahlstrom

Kim has enjoyed doing hair and makeup since her early teens, and got her Cosmetology License at the peak of spiral perms, mullets and big hair. Her decade of professional experience included working as a hair stylist, teaching hair cutting techniques, doing makeup for a local photographer and competing in local and national hairstyling competitions. It has been her pleasure to volunteer on the hair and makeup team at CYT. She loves the challenges, such as learning to style wigs, create hair pieces like Queen Victoria's bun for the show A Little Princess, and how to create bruises. Most of all, Kim really enjoys getting to know the students and helping them bring their role to life. She is excited to share her skills with the creative, adventurous students at CYT.


Lydia Sandy

Lydia Sandy is a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame earning her master of education through the Alliance of Catholic Education program. She currently works as a 4th-grade teacher at St. John Vianney Catholic School in Rancho Cordova, CA. Lydia graduated from Santa Clara University in 2023 with a BS in Child Studies and Religious Studies with a minor in Urban Education. She was born and raised in San Diego and grew up as a CYT/CCT kid from 5-18! At CYT San Diego she participated in over 15 shows and worked as a summer camp counselor. Her passions include Irish Dancing, tap dancing, and going on a Disney Cruise! She is grateful for this opportunity to give back to the program that shaped her into a better person today and is excited to join the CYT Sacramento family!


Michelle Winberg

Michelle Winberg holds a BA from Vanguard University of Southern California in Psychology with a Minor in Music. She started performing when she was 5 years old and fell in love with all performing arts. Throughout her life, she has trained in dance, voice, and various other performing skills. She got involved in a theater company in Southern California where she performed in countless musicals, including Hairspray, The Music Man, and Annie. While she was in college, she continued her musical training and was selected to be in a specialized quartet, focused on excellence and performance in special events. Additionally, she worked at Disneyland in many different performing roles, starting as a character performing and moving up to management, learning lots along the way about various avenues in Entertainment. Since moving to Folsom with her husband Kyle and dog Wolf, she continued her education at Sacramento State University, where she earned her teaching credential. She currently works as a Middle School Math and Music Teacher in Sacramento, sharing her love of the arts in a different environment. She is so excited for this opportunity to work with CYT!


Naomi Hogan

Naomi is a CYT alum, excited to be back! She is finishing up her degree in theater arts from Vanguard University, with an emphasis in musical theater. She has a love for the arts, (both visual and performing) and loves theater, partly because it combines so many different artistic forms. She has been learning, teaching, and choreographing various styles of dance for many years, and loves the puzzle of creating exciting pictures for the stage. Some of her favorite shows she has been in are Tuck Everlasting, the Great Divorce, and Frozen jr.


Shelley Crowley

Shelley Crowley took her first ballet class at the age of seven, not knowing it would be the beginning of a lifetime filled with dance. By the time she was fourteen she had already started her professional career as a soloist with Santa Clara Ballet Company. Classically trained, in both Vaganova and Royal Academy styles of ballet, she was an apprentice for San Francisco Ballet, and later became a member of Pacific Dance Theatre and Peninsula Ballet all before graduating from high school. After graduation, she attended UCLA as a Dance major, and continued her dance career, in Southern California as an industry dancer. Years later she decided to return to the Bay Area to continue her education at San Jose State University in the Theater Arts Department. Shelley started teaching dance while attending SJSU, and later moved to the Sacramento area where she founded Roseville School of Dance in the 90s. She was the director and choreographer for Valley Dance Repertoire, a pro/am performance and competition company. Shelley has had the honor of judging for many national dance competitions, including KAR and Starbound, and has taught master classes throughout Northern California. She has taught classical ballet, commercial & musical theater jazz, lyrical, and contemporary for many studios in the Sacramento Valley, including Lines School of Performing Arts, KAST Academy, Dance Elite All-Stars, Aria’s to the Pointe, and most recently, Studio 65 Dance Company, where she was the Musical Theater Director. What seems like a lifetime later, Shelley is a very proud mama of three amazing adults, and feels so blessed to now be a part of the CYT Family.


Thais Doyle

Thais Doyle is a native Californian and was raised in the Bay Area. She graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Music Performance and Music Education with an emphasis in voice, piano and choral music. She went on to receive her Masters degree from Hope University in Southern California in Worship Ministry administration and leadership. Thais has spent almost forty years working in churches as a Worship Arts Pastor; teaching piano and voice lessons and working with bands and choirs of all ages in church, school and theater settings. Thais joined the teaching and directing staff at CYT in 2021 and has since been honored to teach, direct and be a part of the amazing CYT Family!


Wendy Hoover

Wendy Hoover has worked professionally as a singer, actor, and violinist for more than 20 years. A proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity Association, Wendy’s love for the theater was sparked when she first took to the stage as one of the original students in the founding years of CYT San Diego. She co-founded CYT Sacramento in 2012 and has enjoyed directing, music directing, teaching classes and choreographing in CYT’s Roseville and Auburn Chapters. Beyond CYT, Wendy studied at the University of New Mexico, where she earned a degree in Music with an emphasis in voice. After gaining experience in dinner theater, cabaret, musical theater and opera, Wendy returned to Southern California and went on to play lead and supporting roles in theater, television, and film. Some highlights of Wendy's career include roles in the Hallmark Movie, Santa Jr., the world premiere of Current Nobody at the La Jolla Playhouse, Alice in Alice in Modernland at Sledgehammer Theater and Christine in The Phantom in Concert, at the Santa Fe Music Hall. She starred in the one woman show, Marilyn...Sleepless Nights, playing Marilyn Monroe, at the American Theater in Kansas City. She has also worked as a principal actor in a number of national, regional, and local commercials. As a violinist, Wendy played for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change for productions at San Diego Repertory Theatre and Starlight, and also for several productions of A Christmas Carol at The Rep. Wendy moved to the Sacramento area in 2010 and is excited to bring her love of the stage and passion for developing character to a new generation of aspiring actors.


Zane Hall

Zane Hall is a CYT Alumni who has been a part of various shows such as Godspell, Newsies, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and more! He is currently in his sophomore year at American River College majoring in elementary education, and is continuing his hobby of theatre by participating in shows at community theaters in the Sacramento area. Some of his favorite things include baseball (Go A’s), Phineas and Ferb, and family game nights. He has worked and volunteered at his church with the children’s ministry for the past 4 years fulfilling his passion for teaching and telling young people about Jesus.