Workshop Players Theatre

Workshop Players first show was directed by Valerie Jenkins Gerstenberger in the summer of 1947. A number of her Clearview students who had graduated wanted a place to continue to produce theater. Their first production was WESTERN UNION PLEASE which they performed in August 1947 at Clearview H. S. auditorium. The production was such a success that they decided to fully organize the group so they could continue production. It took them about a year to do this.

The current home of Workshop Players is the one-room school house on Middle Ridge Rd. in Amherst Township. The original school house was a wooden frame structure built in 1876. When the current sandstone building was erected in 1898, the wooden school house was dragged down the Ridge to its current location at the corner of Middle Ridge and Hidden Valley. Our stone building was used as a school until 1951. We have been at this location for 55 years.

We are an all volunteer theatre.