At InBocca Performance, we have specialized in education for students for 28 years. Our roots are in theatre for young audiences, and while we have grown to create theatre for all ages, every year we return to the thing that has always made us special: working with young people to shine light in dark places.

Each summer we offer local children the opportunity to create quality devised programming. Through devising, students learn not only how to create their own theatrical performances, but to shine light in dark places by prioritizing their own voices, ideas, strengths, and abilities. They write their own scripts, choreograph their own dances, compose their own music, and so much more. Here we give kids the opportunity to write about and perform on topics that are important and relevant to them in the world today, through the lens of classic stories.

In 2025, we began an exciting new partnership with the Know Theatre of Cincinnati to expand our education offerings for Greater Cincinnati Area students. Over the course of 4 weeks, students in grades 3-12 gain access to earning opportunities in methodologies and techniques that are unique to InBocca and the Know: specialty skills (puppetry, devised theatre creation, Viewpoints, music and composition, storytelling, circus, clown, etc.), acting, and directing. By the end of the month, they have created a fully devised theatre production culminating in multiple performance opportunities on the Know Theatre Mainstage.

This year we are excited to present The World of Oz!