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Theater For Young Professionals

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Welcome to TYP!

Hello! And welcome to TYP (or "Tip" as we say!) , La Mesa's premiere youth acting school and production company that specializes in musicals, plays and short films.  Your generous support and contributions will enable our nonprofit to fund its mission of quality performances and training in order to grow the arts in our community!

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About Us

Training

Unique Performance Opportunities

Award Winning Teachers

Acting Coaching and Singing Lessons in San Diego.  Learn the crafts of Acting, Classical,  Contemporary, Rock and Broadway Singing, Performance Techniques, Stage Combat and More!

Award Winning Teachers

Unique Performance Opportunities

Award Winning Teachers

Train with San Diego's international award winning professional actors

Unique Performance Opportunities

Unique Performance Opportunities

Unique Performance Opportunities

Bold and exciting professional work uniquely aimed to develop and inspire emerging young artists 

2024/25 Season features Hadestown Teen Edition, Alice in Wonderland Jr, & A Christmas Carol

2024/25 Season features Hadestown Teen Edition, Alice in Wonderland Jr, & A Christmas Carol

2024/25 Season features Hadestown Teen Edition, Alice in Wonderland Jr, & A Christmas Carol

2024/25 Season features Hadestown Teen Edition, Alice in Wonderland Jr, & A Christmas Carol

2024/25 Season features Hadestown Teen Edition, Alice in Wonderland Jr, & A Christmas Carol

2024/25 Season features Hadestown Teen Edition, Alice in Wonderland Jr, & A Christmas Carol

UPCOMING performances IN 2024-2025

TYP'S 2025 CABARET SEASON

We hope you will join some of Theater for Young Professionals' best performers in an evening of song as they sing from some of your favorite shows!

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INTRODUCING THE CAST OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Please join Theater for Young Professionals this holiday season for their new adaptation of A Christmas Carol, written by Jordan Miller.  This play will be a modern adaptation of Charles Dickens' timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's greed and redemption.  An LA party girl will be visited by four ghosts, who hope to open her heart to the plight of the poor and powerless in the world.

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a christmas carol 2024

running December 6-22, 2024

Theater for Young Professionals presents

John Polhamus in a One Man adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL on December 19th at 7pm

John will perform a solo dramatic reading of "A Christmas Carol."  John will also share with us an introductory history of the tradition of Dicken's himself giving an oratory performance of his own book.  There will be a Q&A afterwards for Company Members and their parents only. 

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More About John

John is a broadly experienced Singer, Actor, Instrumentalist, Composer, Conductor, and Published Writer, who is active in the San Diego/Los Angeles area. He has an ongoing career in the performing arts, which includes leading roles in Musical Theatre both in San Diego and in London, England.  John has worked with the Bach Collegium San Diego as a classical soloist and choral artist in San Diego and Mexico City.  In addition, John has worked as a professional parish liturgical musician; writing vocal and instrumental music which has been accepted for publication by Boosey and Hawkes as well as Emerson Music in the UK.  John writes reviews which have been published in the scholarly journal Usus Antiquior, the Beach and Bay Press, and the Southern Cross newspaper. He also conducts and leads Catholic choirs of various sizes for commercial hire, both at home in San Diego and as far as London in the UK, which have included performances of his own compositions. 

MORE UPCOMING EVENTS

SUMMER 2025

SPRING BREAK 2025

SPRING BREAK 2025

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SPRING BREAK 2025

SPRING BREAK 2025

SPRING BREAK 2025

We have 3 one-week camps for all ages.  You will sing and dance to some of your favorite show highlights!  Each camp is geared toward its students.  There will be one full company number taught along with solos and small group songs to increase each students skills.

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UPCOMING events IN 2025

TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE FOR THIS POWERFUL SHOW! GET THEM BEFORE THEY ARE GONE!

This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.

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Beginning January 9, 2025

WINTER 2025 CLASSES-Beginning January 9, 2025

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Please consider sponsoring one of our AMAZING  young artists.  Every dollar they raise goes directly to TYP to help further their arts education.  ARTS EDUCATION MATTERS

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"Special Day" written by Trevor Crippen

Performed by the cast of Return to North Star

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    Goldstar and google reviews--Thank you!!!

    5 Stars from Elsa

    5 Stars from Plays at First

    5 Stars from Plays at First

    Jessica and Jordan are dedicated to teaching and sharing their talents with their students.  I am forever grateful for the opportunities they have given my son.

    5 Stars from Plays at First

    5 Stars from Plays at First

    5 Stars from Plays at First

    This is a great group of young adults We especially loved "Olive" but everyone was great We had seen this play before where adults played the kids but this was kids playing kids and it is a refreshing to see such talent in the youth; all were very polite when we spoke to them in the lobby after the play> We look forward to seeing their next production.

    5 Stars from Bree

    5 Stars from Plays at First

    5 Stars from Peter

    Hilarious show with non-stop laughter! Highly recommend!

    5 Stars from Peter

    5 Stars from Samuel

    5 Stars from Peter

    Really cute show! Lots of great talent!

    5 Stars from Steve

    5 Stars from Samuel

    5 Stars from Samuel

    high energy hilarity. We left laughing...

    5 Stars from Samuel

    5 Stars from Samuel

    5 Stars from Samuel

    Fun show with a great cast. I’m glad I went!

    5 Stars from Asher

    Kind Words from Annie

    Kind Words from Annie

    Jessica and Jordan have helped me so much as an actor and a singer and just a person in general I highly recommend them.

    Kind Words from Annie

    Kind Words from Annie

    Kind Words from Annie

    Excellent program, run by true professionals! My son continues to gain knowledge about the industry, and has grown leaps and bounds since studying with TYP! He is now gaining leadership skills as well! So grateful!

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    Kind Words from Annie

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    TYP has created a safe and welcoming risk-free environment where the kids feel safe expressing themselves. Jordan and Jessica are amazing teachers and we are so happy to be a part of this company.

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