2024 Summer Camps

Brave Young Vaudevillians
Session 1

Ages 6 - 8 | 2 weeks, July 8 - July 19
9am - 3:30pm

Looking for a summer program that is fun, educational, and exciting while also incorporating outdoor activities, unstructured play, and theatre arts training? This is the one! We’ll play our way through the summer - singing, dancing, acting, dressing up and frolicking.

Brave Young Vaudevillians
Session 2

Ages 6 - 8 | 2 weeks, July 29 - Aug 9
9am - 3:30pm

Looking for a summer program that is fun, educational, and exciting while also incorporating outdoor activities, unstructured play, and theatre arts training? This is the one! We’ll play our way through the summer - singing, dancing, acting, dressing up and frolicking. 

Melodrama 1

Director: Amy Majer
Assistant Director: Ella Korson

Ages 9 - 13 | 2 weeks, July 8 - July 19
9am - 3:30pm

NEYT’s most popular summer program brings the merriment and madness! 

Playing heroes, villains, and fools, participants learn character development by making big, bold, loud, silly choices. Colorful costumes, shaving cream fights, and slapstick comedy are melodrama’s stock-in-trade. Through theater games, improv exercises, and clowning, students develop the vocal and physical skills to pull off the over-the-top action and comedic timing. Student-driven ideas are encouraged, and directors strive to incorporate them into the production. At the end of two weeks, students perform before enthusiastic audience members, who cheer on the actors in the boisterous, interactive tradition of melodrama.

3 Performances
July 19, 6pm and July 20, 2pm & 6pm 

Melodrama 2

Director: Shannon Ward
Assistant Director: Cassidy Majer

Ages 9 - 13 | 2 weeks, July 29 - Aug 9
9am - 3:30pm

NEYT’s most popular summer program brings the merriment and madness! 

Playing heroes, villains, and fools, participants learn character development by making big, bold, loud, silly choices. Colorful costumes, shaving cream fights, and slapstick comedy are melodrama’s stock-in-trade. Through theater games, improv exercises, and clowning, students develop the vocal and physical skills to pull off the over-the-top action and comedic timing. Student-driven ideas are encouraged, and directors strive to incorporate them into the production. At the end of two weeks, students perform before enthusiastic audience members, who cheer on the actors in the boisterous, interactive tradition of melodrama.

3 Performances
Aug 6, 9pm and Aug 10, 2pm & 6pm

Musical Theater Skills

Director: Nick Bombicino
Choreographer/Assistant Director: Alex Aither

Ages 10 - 14 | 8 days, June 24 - July 3
9am - 3:30pm

Do you want to build your musical theater skills? In this camp we’ll explore the basic techniques in musical theatre training: singing, dancing, acting, and putting it all together, including duets! Audition technique, acting the song, and creating compelling characters that move smoothly from scene to song will all be explored through songs, dances, and scenes. All experience levels are welcome, as the camp will be tailored to each student’s level of training and experience. We’ll end with a Family Sharing, giving campers a chance to show off what they’ve learned. Join us!

Recommended for campers with a true interest in musical theater and a desire to level up their skills.

Drag

Director: Kelindah Schuster
Assistant Director: Robyn Jensen-Tode

Ages 10 - 14 | 2 weeks, July 22 - Aug 2
9am - 3:30pm

In this camp, participants will be invited to build a drag persona with a focus on facial expression, movement style, character motivations and costume choices. Through group games, solo exploration, partnered creation exercises, and the tool of lip sync, artists will get to know their characters and their ensemble in a supportive creative environment. We will focus on Drag as an art form of transformation and its capacity to impact social movements as a tool of self-discovery, community connection, personal storytelling, and political commentary.

 In this program you will

• Create a character

• Practice the skill of lip-syncing

• Develop a concept for a solo act

• Develop choreography

• Design a costume and makeup look for your character/act

• Stage the concept

• Incorporate lighting and sound, props and other set elements

• Collaborate with other performers in duets and group numbers

• Learn about building a drag show

• Practice MCing a drag show

3 Performances | Aug 2, 6pm and Aug 3, 2pm & 6pm

Costume

Director: Monika Grist Weiner

Ages 10 - 14 | 2 weeks, July 8 - July 19
9am - 3:30pm

Have you ever wondered how costumes are created for NEYT shows? This summer, NEYT is offering our Costume Design Camp where campers will learn the behind the scenes process of a costume designer. We will begin by learning the elements of costume design: color, texture and silhouette. Costumers will get to do various "project runway-like" design challenges to get them familiar with thinking like designers. This camp will run concurrently with Melodrama 1 and campers will be guided by NEYT Head Costumer, Monika Grist Weiner as they learn about and costume a real production. The campers will read the script, pull costumes, assist with fittings and alterations, and crew the performances! Interest in learning to sew by hand and machine is a must!

Melodrama Performances | July 19, 6pm and July 20, 2pm & 6pm  

Improv

Director: Jane Baker
Assistant Director: Ella Korson

Ages 13 - 19 | 8 days, June 24 - July 3 
9am - 12

Spend 8 days exploring skills that will serve you your whole life, in or out of the theater: thinking on your feet, working collaboratively, keeping focus, and having fun! The best part is that in the learning of these things we also have a great time! We will explore traditional theater games as well as short form, long form, and structured improvisations. Come play!

Musical Theater Intensive – Legally Blonde

Director: Gavy Kessler
Choreographer: Daniel McNamara
Pit Director: Nathaniel Evans

Ages 13 - 19 | 3 weeks, July 8 - July 28
9am - 4pm

This program offers a more intensive and rigorous musical theatre experience for our senior company students. This summer, participants will learn, rehearse, and perform a complete musical, with the support needed to develop vocal, dance, and acting skills. Students of all abilities are welcome.  Legally Blonde is a joyful musical comedy that questions what happens when we judge a book by its cover; its soaring score and wild characters embody enthusiasm, courage, and curiosity!

To better utilize the three weeks of camp for learning and rehearsing, there will be a casting workshop and preliminary costume fitting prior to the start date of July 8. Casting Workshops will be held May 10th and 13th from 3:45 - 6:45pm at NEYT Campus.

4 Performances
July 26, 6pm and July 27, 2pm & 6pm
Sunday July 28 2pm

Summer Classic - The Cherry Orchard

Director: Ben Stockman
Assistant Director: Jim Maxwell
Dramaturg: Robyn Jensen-Tode

Ages 13 - 19 | 3 weeks, July 29 - Aug 16
9am - 4pm

This three-week immersion program offers a more intensive and rigorous theatre experience for our senior company students, exploring the literary classic The Cherry Orchard. Participants are given the support they need to develop their skill with language, voice, and physical storytelling as they rehearse a fully produced play.

A farce with feeling, The Cherry Orchard is the story of a formerly wealthy family who reconvenes at their manor to save it from foreclosure. However, their lives of privilege and excess have ill-prepared them for this crisis, and even the simplest of solutions prove to be near-impossible tasks for the erstwhile aristocrats. Will they heed the words of their financial advisor and save their homestead? Or be forced to watch while their precious estate is gobbled up by the newly arisen bourgeoisie? 

To better utilize the three weeks of camp for learning and rehearsing, there will be a casting workshop and preliminary costume fitting prior to the start date of July 29. Casting Workshops will be held May 7th and 11th from 3:45 - 5:30pm at NEYT Campus.

3 Performances
Aug 16, 6pm and Aug 17, 2pm & 6pm
Reflection Day | Aug 19 10:30 - 2:30