Private Lessons - Performing Arts - Rochester, NY
Looking to take your skills to the next level in the arts? OFC Creations is proud to have a team of highly-qualified Teaching Artists ready to help bring out the talents in you! In individual lessons, students work privately with their instructor in an area of interest. Areas include: Voice, Piano, Acting, Musical Theatre Dance, and Tap Dance.
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Lessons are held in-person at the OFC Creations Theatre Center at 3450 Winton Place, Rochester, NY 14623
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Current Private Lesson Tuition Cost:​
30 Min Lesson – $30.00
45 Min Lesson – $42.00
60 Min Lesson – $53.00
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Effective on July 1st, 2025 lesson rates will be increasing to the following:
30 min - $32
45 min - $44
60 min - $55
Open for ages 7 to 107, one-on-one instruction is available for all students interested in expanding their skills in music, drama, and dance.
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Private lesson students will perform in a recital typically twice each year at the OFC Creations Theatre Center. Details on these recitals will be emailed to families that have been enrolled in ongoing lessons.
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The advantage of taking lessons at OFC is that our instructors can focus specifically on musical theatre, including audition material for upcoming shows with us, with your school, or beyond! Many OFC students are performing professionally and continue to hone their skills with us.
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Lessons can be booked for a one time engagement (prep for an audition) or can be booked for long term skill building.
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However - please note, as private lessons at OFC are normally structured around skill building, additional costs may be incurred for instructor prep time for other types of lessons including college pre-screens, choreography creation, etc. Please contact us in advance of booking if you need a lesson for a purpose beyond skill building.
Voice & Tap Dance Lessons with Tripp Hanson
Hanson has appeared on Broadway as well as on concert stages all over the planet (including in each of the 50 United States!). On Broadway, he was in the original Tony Award winning Best Musical, ‘Crazy for You’, the Tony Award-winning Best Revival of ‘Kiss Me, Kate!’, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’, ‘Boys from Syracuse’ and ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’. Tripp began his professional performing career singing and dancing with Mickey and Minnie during the summer between his junior and senior years at college as an ‘All American College Singer and Dancer’, before joining their professional promotional group, The Kids of the Kingdom. He appeared with Liza Minelli, Tommy Tune, Peter Allen, Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Sutton Foster, Chita Rivera. He also did a stint as a back-up singer for old school country great, Eddie Arnold. Tripp has played Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, the Kennedy Center & The Hall of Columns in Moscow. Tripp also spent 15 years running his very successful NYC acupuncture practice.
Voice Lessons with Kathleen Costa
Kathy, who relocated to Rochester from Canada, has worked as a vocal instructor and coach since 1997. She studied Vocal Performance at the University of Windsor and Humber College for Vocal Jazz. as well as lessons with Marni Nixon (known for voicing the film roles of Maria in West Side Story and Eliza in My Fair Lady). She has worked with Canadian theatre companies as director, musical director, movement teacher, and acting coach on various productions such as Seussical, Once on This Island, Xanadu, Mary Poppins, Hair, West Side Story, and Dreamgirls. Kathy has training in Estill Voice, Feldenkreis and the LoVetri Method, which she uses in all aspects of her teaching and directing in order to help students and performers improve their skills. Not only has she taught many students who are now theatre professionals, Kathy has performed and run workshops with Broadway writers - Tony, Oscar and Grammy winners, Pasek and Paul (Dear Evan Hansen/La La Land), Carner and Gregor (Island Song), Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown). Kathy is very excited to continue her musical journey this side of the border with OFC and looks forward to helping others on their musical journey as well!
Voice & Acting Lessons with Eric Schutt
Schutt is a Rochester native who graduated with a BFA in Acting from State University of New York at Fredonia. He’s been a happy part of the OFC Creations family since 2017, directing for ages 7-18, teaching private voice and acting lessons and performing in productions such as Jersey Boys (Bob Gaudio), Anything Goes (Billy Crocker), The Producers (Leo Bloom), Kinky Boots (Charlie Price), White Christmas (Bob Wallace), The Rocky Horror Show (Brad Majors), the Golden Girls musical parodies (Blanche), "A Celebration of Carole King & Billy Joel Hits" at the Old Farm Cafe, Tick, Tick…BOOM! (Jonathan), Forbidden Broadway, Dance Mums (Misty), A Chorus Line (Mike), The Wild Party (Burrs). Eric has also performed locally at JCC Centerstage, Blackfriars Theatre, Pittsford Musicals, Lyric Theatre and Kodak Center. He is a preschool teacher at Expressive Beginnings Child Care and enjoys spending his downtime with his wife and their two children.
Voice Lessons & Beginner Piano with Hadley Strelau
Strelau is a Rochester native and has a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Nazareth University. She joined the OFC Creations team in 2020 as a private voice and piano teacher, and has since music-directed a variety of youth theatre programs, including The Lion King KIDS, Beauty and the Beast, Jr., Seussical Jr, and many more. Strelau recently completed Level I of Somatic Voicework: The LoVetri Method. OFC performance credits include: The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy Gale), White Christmas (Betty Haynes), and Anything Goes (Hope Harcourt). Other performance credits include: Newsies (Katherine Plumber) with RCT, Little Women (Beth March) with Webster Theater Guild, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Betty, Cynthia U/S) with JCC Centerstage. She also performs as a backup vocalist for Josh Groban when he is in the upstate New York area, and has appeared several times with the Greater Rochester Women's Philharmonic as a featured soloist. When she's not at the theater, she can be found exploring the great outdoors with her husband, Jonah, and their dog, Denali.
Dance Lessons with Caeli Carroll
Carroll is a choreographer and dancer who recently graduated from Ithaca College receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts Management and Dance. She has been dancing since the age of three and has been performing in theatre since the age of eight. During her time at Ithaca, she was a dancer, teacher, and choreographer for two dance companies, danced in the theatre departments Dance Concert, and worked as the Assistant Choreographer for their spring musical. Carroll recently returned from New York City where she participated in Dance Lab New York’s Broadway Choreography Intensive where she worked with some of the top professionals in the industry, including Josh Prince, Jeff Calhoun, JoAnn M. Hunter, and Al Blackstone. One of her favorite work experiences was working as a choreographer and dance instructor for Interlochen Center for the Arts summer program. Carroll believes that dance is a beautiful and fun outlet for expression and has limitless storytelling potential. She is incredibly excited to work at OFC and hopes to share her love and passion for the creative arts and spark a similar passion in the students!
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Dance Lessons with Ariana Rivera
Rivera graded in 2021 from Montclair State University where she earned her BFA in Musical Theatre. She has been seen performing in the area recently as Rosalia in West Side Story in OFCs Broadway in Brighton series, as well as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Wendla in Spring Awakening with The Company Theatre. She has a passion for education as well as performing, and she has teaching experience with students of all ages ranging from infancy through high school.
Please view refund and rescheduling policy below before signing up for lessons.
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Please contact us if there a teacher's current availability does not work with your schedule and you need additional options.​​
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By signing up for lessons listed above you agree to:
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Students have the option to reschedule lessons via the online booking system (see your email confirmation), but must be done at least 24-hours in advance.
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Cancellations, no-shows, or rescheduling requests within 24 hours of the lesson WILL NOT be rescheduled and the payment not refunded.
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Prior to 24 hours of the lesson, students may reschedule their own lessons through the Google Calendar link they were emailed. However, if you select the cancel option no refund will be given.
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If a scheduled make up lesson is missed or the student is unable to attend, the lesson will not be rescheduled or refunded.
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Please view our full refund policy by CLICKING HERE.
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If a student is late, the time will not be made up.
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Every cancelled lesson by teacher will be made up.
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All lessons are taught at the OFC Creations Theatre Center (3450 Winton Place, Rochester NY 14623). For your first lesson please wait in our main lobby and the instructor will come to greet you.
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Student agrees to treat everyone with respect and consideration while at OFC as well as follow all directions given to you by the theatre staff.
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OFC does not give preferential treatment in casting productions based on those in lessons with OFC or not. Lessons are purely for skill building.
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Students shall keep language, behavior, and dress appropriate.
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OFC does not tolerate discrimination of any kind and do not tolerate any drinking, smoking, drugs, or PDA at OFC events
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By signing up for lessons, I understand that photos and/or video may be taken of my child by an OFC Team Member for social media and promotional purposes.
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By signing up for lessons, I agree to OFC's Terms and Conditions
Those that are interested in having the OFC office book an ongoing lesson time - will need to commit to a certain day/time of the week and lesson length. Upon booking for the respective season, payments may be broken up into monthly or larger portions. However, it is to be noted, upon agreeing to booking for the session on lessons, the student and family are agreeing to fulfill that total number of lessons. If a lesson time needs to be changed, that is fine (per our normal lesson reschedule policy), however it must be rescheduled through the Square system or directly with the lesson teacher. The number of initially agreed upon number of lessons and payment amounts may not be reduced after the initial agreement is made, even if the invoice has not been paid yet. Invoices that are not paid within 2-days of due date will result in a late fee (5%) added to the invoice.
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As of July 2020 OFC's policies and procedures were updated to "no refunds or transfers on all sales," including but not limited to tuition, deposits, tickets. A small processing fee applies to all class and camp registrations as well as tickets. Transfer credits may not be used towards private lessons.