Sunbury Performing Arts

06/25/2026

Our tiniest actors are so cute! We’re doing a ton of improv and games, little scenes and commercials, and slating… here: the Bite and Beam… one of them said it was the best class ever… was it because they got to eat candy? The world will never know…😂😂

06/24/2026

Meet the leaders of our Fetch Junior show!!

The fabulous Courtney Lucas is a choreographer and devoted teaching artist who has shaped young dancers in Central Ohio from where the 15 years she earned her BFA in dance from the Ohio State University in 2012. Her students have been accepted into top programs, including Steps on Broadway CLI Conservatory and Ballet Met. Most recently Courtney directed a pre-professional repertory company producing dance adaptations of an American in Paris, Stranger Things and schoolhouse Rock among others. This is Courtney’s second season with SPA!

06/24/2026

Our 10-12 year old class is lit! Our acting the song expert, Tenley, came down to teach some improv and it was so much fun!! Should we do acting classes in July?? Let us know!

06/23/2026

Meet our professionals!! First up: , our Director for the junior ( family friendly) version of the most Fetch musical in town!

Carmel Avegnon Sanders, Artistic Director of Brave Young Voices: The Westerville Youth Theatre Project and Theatre Director at Olentangy Orange Middle School is a graduate of Otterbein University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Carmel has been fortunate to perform domestically and abroad in TV, Film, Radio and her first love Theatre. She is a proud mother of three children, an arts administrator, a youth arts advocate, a teacher/coach and a performer with over 30 years experience in the world of youth arts and advocacy. For her work with young people in the community, she was fortunate to receive the 2025 Otterbein University Alumni Award, the 2024 Alston Award for Social Justice from Leadership Westerville and the 2024 Excellence in Teaching in the Arts Award from the Arts Council of Westerville, along with the 2024 Excellence in Programming from the Westerville Board of Education and in 2018 the Civilian Award from the City of Westerville for her work with youth at Westerville’s 4th Friday Festival.

Carmel is committed to the idea that theatre has a transformative power to create opportunities for meaningful dialog that is vital to the healing of our society.

06/23/2026

Modeling camp tonight with Austin, Evy and Kamdyn was so much fun! Want to be a part of it? Send a pm, we’ll get a camp going!

06/22/2026

What are you seeking in your child’s home theater? Sunbury Performing Arts isn’t just a children’s theater, we are a community of knowledgeable, trained professionals, incredible volunteers, and happy, kind, tremendously talented actors, all of whom work together to lift each other up. We create excellent opportunities for our actors, and along the way, we make great theater grounded in classical training.

Our fabulous Parent Volunteer Coordinator/upcoming stage manager, Annie Prenoveau, asked our actors and their parents how they feel about SPA, and she compiled some of their answers in the graphic below.

As you can see, we’re more than just a theater, we’re the place where you can feel free to explore, stretch, and grow in a warm, safe environment. We’re the place where you belong.

Come check us out, take a class, see a show, audition for a show, and be a part of our rich, diverse, beautiful culture!

06/21/2026

Happy Father’s Day to our AWESOME SPA DADS!!!

06/20/2026

A few moments from Wednesday's modeling camp with Ella Hadleigh, Layla Landon, Layla and Lills!!

We're doing a camp on June 29th! Want to join?! PM!

06/18/2026

Sunbury Performing Arts is so proud to support our town!!

06/18/2026

Let's bust some myths about our “Fetch” Broadway show adaptation, where a positive environment is guaranteed! 💖

MYTH: "The show has too many mature jokes and adult themes for my child."

✅ FACT: this JR. Show is a heavily sanitized adaptation. Broadway writers stripped out all adult language, inappropriate songs and punchlines, and mature themes. It is a completely family-friendly script!👗

MYTH: "It just celebrates being mean."

✅ FACT: This show is actually an amazing anti-bullying tool! It shows kids the real-world consequences of gossip and celebrates the power of lifting each other up.

A few fun Facts about our "fetch" Broadway Junior adaptation of the hit 2004 film and musical. Tailored for younger performers and younger audiences, the show maintains all the iconic catchphrases, high school hijinks, and the famous Burn Book, while tweaking the script to be completely clean and family-friendly:) .

A Family Affair: The musical's book was written by Tina Fey, with music composed by her husband, Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by Nell Benjamin.

Spotless Plastics: The JR. adaptation was carefully edited and revised by the writers to remove all adult language and profanity, making it perfectly safe for middle and early-high school stages.

The show uses the popular theater kids—Janis Sarkisian and Damian Hubbard—as "fourth-wall-breaking" narrators to keep the story moving at a snappy, energetic pace.

No Audition Needed? One of the movie's most iconic characters, Glen Coco (who received four candy canes), didn't even audition. The actor, Daniel Reale, snuck onto the film set for free food, and the director randomly decided to cast him in the chair!

Audition dates are July 31 and August 1. Need to send in a video? No problem, just make a note of it on the form! Sign up today!!

AGES: Actors going into 6th grade through 12th grade for the 2026-2027 school year. This is the junior version of the show, This means that the licensing agency has made a very big point of making this a family friendly environment for both the viewers and the actors, which is one of SPA’s core va...