A week of classes, with Friday & Saturday night performances to show off your new skills!

Featured Workshops

8pm on August 2nd and 3rd allow students and teachers alike an opportunity to try out new things, show off what they’ve learned, and overall have a great time performing on stage.

Students and Teachers get in free

We’ve been around 30 years as a nonprofit. In that time we’ve been lucky enough to have worked with a whole bunch of Metro Detroit’s finest creative minds.

Over the years we’ve grown from being a simple black box theatre inside a purple building on Caniff into a multi building complex with shows and classes and 3 busy stages, all still right here in Hamtramck.

We’re run by a small team and we’re also all artists. We realize Planet Ant is much more than a history or a collection of buildings. We’re a community. Our drive is to generate paid work, facilitate space, and to get audiences to see the all the amazing stuff you do.

Whether you’re an artist or just love the art, you’re what makes us great. Come on down and collaborate with us.

Come see why Planet Ant drives Detroit’s Comedy Community.

Friends of Planet Ant, Sam Richardson (Veep), Jaime Moyer (Bobs Burgers), Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave) and Keegan Michael Key (Key & Peele).

Proceeds from Level Up Skill Fest are designed to benefit teaching artists and Planet Ant Theatre (a 501(c)3 Nonprofit). It’s our sincere effort to work towards helping unite performing arts communities and to strengthen the voice of artists everywhere.