Spring 2010 Classes & Camps - Ages 4 and Up Starting July 5th!

While Oregon Stage Works continues its hiatus, Ashland Children’s Theatre,  co-directors, Kate Sullivan and Eve Smyth are excited to announce their Incredible Instant Theatre Camp line up for the summer!  A variety of theatrical fun for ages 4 through 17 is offered including improv, fractured fairy tales, puppets, and a performance focused camp, Children’s Mystery Theatre.   All camps take place at 905 Skylark Place in Ashland and each camp culminates in a showcase performance for family and friends. Children’s Mystery Theatre camp will present two public performances on Saturday and Sunday, August 13th and 14th. 

In its sixth year of providing “a great place to act out”, Ashland Children’s Theatre offers five camps throughout the summer for children all ages with a diverse range of theatrical experience.  In Make Believe Explorers, 4-6 year olds will play theatre games, enjoy a puppet and make-up day, and act out lots of stories.  Imagination Travelers, for ages 6-8, focuses on theatre exercises, improv games, puppets, poems and more.  Fractured Fairy Tale Theatre gives 9-12 year old students a chance to act out some common fairy tales in a “traditional” telling and then to experiment with creating and staging some  “re-tellings”. Little Red Riding Hood as a Western?  The Three Little Pigs set up a surf shop?  Who knows where we’ll end up? TeenProv, for ages 12-17, is totally teen and totally improv.  Campers will learn improv games and skills that will have them thinking on their feet and creating something from nothing.

After the past summer successes A Laughing Matter, and Key to her Heart, Ashland Children’s Theatre is developing a new mystery script written by Eve Smyth especially for Children’s Mystery Theatre Camp. This intensive two-week camp for ages 11-17, will delve into the mystery genre in classic film noir style, with a comic twist. In addition to actors, we welcome students who are interested in lighting, sound, stage management, and production. A hard-boiled detective, a femme fatal, a man with a strange accent…all ingredients for a fun who-dunnit.

Heading up the Instant Theatre team is Ashland Children’s Theatre co-director, Eve Smyth. Eve has been acting and performing improv for over 20 years.  She has been teaching and directing young people in the Rogue Valley since 2004 and has written several plays for Ashland Children’s Theatre.  Eve is a member of the local improv troupe, The Hamazons. Actor and teacher, Kyndra Laughery rejoins the summer camp staff this year.  Kyndra, a “found object” artist, is the director of Teen Theatre and a member of the Hamazons.

All camps take place at 905 Skylark Place in Ashland.

Get the Summer 2010 Class Schedule and Registration Form (PDF) Here!

For more information please contact:
Ashland Children's Theatre Co-Director Kate Sullivan
541.301.4549 or email osw.act@gmail.com
 

Kate Sullivan  (ACT Co-Director), a founding member of Oregon Stage Works, holds a B.A. in Drama and Theatre from the University of Hawaii, where she trained in both Western and Eastern Acting styles. While in Hawaii, she performed and toured with Honolulu Theatre for Youth and taught creative drama for two years at their summer camp for young actors.  In addition, she taught performance skills and theatre games to children, ages 5- 14 with  “Getting Dramatic”, a program that set up Drama residencies in various Hawaii public schools. Trained in gymnastics, Kate has taught the sport and worked with young children for over thirty years. She has played numerous roles here in the Rogue Valley Her most recent Oregon Stage Works appearances include Mrs. Kendall in The Elephant Man, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible and Jessie Mae in The Trip to Boutiful. She spent three seasons as an understudy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.