Good question.

Your teachers and mentors love what they do – act, sing, write, create, laugh, play, compose, build and listen. We've written a whole lot of songs and a bunch of shows and we have shared our experience and creativity with a whole bunch of kids. Long enough now that we have children of previous acting students in class.

We've also discovered the joy and fun of having classes for adults. Acting and Improvisation for those of you still kids at heart. All levels welcome.

What We Do

Classes & Camps

La-De-Da has weekly classes for all ages all year round in many different disciplines. We also have special camps and intensives offered in the summer and throughout the year. 

Performance

La-De-Da has an annual production of A Musical Christmas Carol which is an original La-De-Da adaptation of the beloved Dickens novel. We perform in the Lincoln Center every December. 

We also perform in the Fort Collins Fringe Festival every year in July and devise new work we find relevant to our time. 

Private Lesson

All of the teachers at La-De-Da are also practitioners in their fields. We will offer private coaching for personal or professional development.

Workshops

La-De-Da will also offer workshops in many topics from Improv to Team Building, we will even come to you. 

DULCIE WILLIS comes to La-De-Da with over 25 years in educational theatre and production experience. She holds a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Goucher College along with BA degrees in Theatre Arts Education from the University of Northern Colorado and Musical Theatre from Mesa State College. Dulcie has taught drama, speech, film, dance, and English in Taiwan, South Korea, Arizona, and Colorado. Dulcie has directed, choreographed, and produced over 40 productions for high school and community theatre, with award-winning work featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Dulcie lead the theatre program at Poudre High School from 2002-2009, She is former Executive Director at Bas Bleu Theatre Company, Education Outreach Coordinator for the Fort Collins Lincoln Center and Adjunct Faculty/Graduate Coordinator for the CSU LEAP Institute for the Arts. Dulcie has been Volunteer Coordinator for the City of Greeley, Project Manager for Beaver Creek Children’s Theatre and Operations Manager for the Grand Junction Family Theatre Company/ DooZoo Children’s Museum. She currently serves as President of The Friends of the Gardens on Spring Creek and served on the Curriculum Committee for the Arts Incubator of the Rockies, and on the Dance Standards Curriculum Subcommittee for the State of Colorado. She most recently directed Fort Collins Children’s Theatre productions of Beauty and the Beast, Shrek, and Seussical the Musical. Together with Heather Johnson, she has produced the Fort Collins Fringe Festival for five years.

Dulcie looks forward to a bright future with La-De-Da!

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HEATHER OSTBERG JOHNSON brings 14 years of diverse performance, production, and teaching experience to La-De-Da. Her recent focus is on developing new work and teaching actors to devise plays from scratch that are meaningful to them and their community. She shares a passion and background with La-De-Da's commitment to original, skill-based, age appropriate work. Heather holds a Performance Arts degree from Westmont College and studied clowning and physical theatre in San Francisco with Moshe Cohen, the founder of Clowns Without Borders, as well as Leonard Pitt and James Donlan of the Flying Actors Studio.  She has taught movement, improvisation, and theatre skills through workshops and after-school programs at Zach Elementary School, Boltz Middle School, and Poudre High School as well as Polaris Expeditionary Learning School, Fort Collins Montessori School, and Poudre Academy of Performing Arts.  Heather has a strong commitment to lifelong learning and seeks out training in movement and physical theatre across the country to share with her students. She also continues to tour original pieces of theatre each summer, most recently taking her co-written two-woman show Mad and a Goat to New York, Austin, Santa Barbara, and Denver, with Portland and Berkley on the calendar for Summer 2017.  Heather can be found onstage and behind the scenes locally with Bas Bleu, Open Stage Theatre, and the Fort Collins Fringe Festival. She is also a founding member of the Comedy Brewers with whom she performs short-form comedy improv every month. Heather and Dulcie have thoroughly enjoyed partnering together the past five years establishing and producing the Fort Collins Fringe Festival

Heather is excited to be carrying on the rich tradition of La-De-Da's high caliber theatre education programs.

Acting Instructor

Cary Klataske

Over a decade of theatre experience in performance, direction, and design, started rocking when Cary received a Bachelors in Theatre from Kansas State University. With post-graduate work in Drama Therapy and Special Education, Cary pursued how art intersects mental health, education, and social opportunity. Continuing to always perform, some favorite performance pieces have included The North Plan, Dancing at Lughnasa, Les Miserables, Godspell, Edward Albee's Seascape, and Almost, Maine. Here in Fort Collins, he is also a co-founder of the improvisational performance group The Comedy Brewers. Cary sees art as a force of collaboration and learning, has spent several years as a school teacher, and is excited to explore theatre with all in the community.