Summer Camp 2008

Nine-week session

June 16^th - August 15^th

Camps will culminate in a showcase performance for family and friends on the last day of class.

Musical Theater performances at end of camps.

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Make Believe Explorers

Sections 1 and 2

Ages 4-6 Eve Smyth, Instructor $50 per section

Monday thru Friday 1:00-2:00pm

Section One June 16 - June 20

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Section Two June 23 - June 27

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Dinosaurs, princesses, puppies and talking light bulbs. Students will learn theatre games to enhance listening, body awareness and cooperation while channeling their active imaginations and bringing their stories to the stage.

Imagination Travelers

Sections 1 and 2

Ages 6-8 Instructor, Eve Smyth

Mondays thru Fridays

Section One June 16 - 27 9:00am-Noon $260

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Section Two August 4 - 8 1:30-4:30pm $130

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Travel from Tasmania to the center of the earth, or from fairyland to the center of your ear! On stage, not only can we go anywhere our imaginations take us, we can show it to you. Spend two weeks filled with theater fun where students will play games, work with puppets, make up, create stories, and bring them to life onstage.

Spontaneous Superstars

Ages 9-11 Instructor, Eve Smyth $340

Monday thru Friday 9:00am-1:00pm

August 4 – 15

Why are there frogs in your suitcase? What did the fortune teller say? What goes on behind the scenes in the big top? With a strong emphasis on theater improv, this camp will tap into students creativity and spontaneity. Stage combat, make-up, voice and movement excercises will be a part of this camp where students will work on character developement, stage presence, narrative skills and more. Students will write and perform a monologue of their own, jump into Shakespeare and improvise up a storm! An end of camp performance will give campers a chance to strut their stuff.

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TeenProv

Ages 12+ Instructor, Eve Smyth $95

Monday thru Friday 2:00-4:00pm

August 11 - 15

Through theater games and exercises, students will develop skills to create and perform their own scenes. Students will learn to tap into their spontaneity, discover characters, and expand their narrative skills. Improv promotes teamwork, self-expression and creativity. The class will also incorporate theater basics in voice, movement and staging.

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Children's Mystery Theater Performance Camp

Ages 11-15 Writer/Director, Eve Smyth $340

Monday thru Friday 9:00am-12:00PM

July 21 – August 1

^{Auditions for this camp will be held on May 19, 3:30 - 6:30pm.
Other audition dates may be arranged. Call 482-2334 # 2}

This two week camp will delve into the mystery genre in classic film noir style and will develop into a full production with two public performances. In addition to actors, we welcome students who are interested in lighting, sound, stage management, and production. This will be an intensive rehearsal/production camp. A nightclub with a murdered comedian...who dunnit? The lounge singer? The busboy? The man with the strange accent? Forunately our detective is on the case.

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Intro To Musical Theater

Ages 8-17 Instructor, Laura Derocher $155

Monday thru Friday 1:30 - 5:00pm

July 12 - 18

There is nothing like singing and dancing to make an aspiring actor feel alive. This one week camp is designed for young actors new to the musical theater experience. Kids will learn the basics of musical theater performance: singing and movement fundementals, stage directions, blocking, how to sell a song and more. Campers will learn a simple scene and song from the hit musical, "Seussical", which they will perform for family and friends on the last day of camp.

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More Musical Theater !

Ages 8 - 17 Instructor, Laura Derocher $300

Monday thru Friday 1:30 - 5:00pm

July 21 - August 1

Your child's been bitten by the musical theater bug and now he or she is craving more? We've got the perfect solution ! In this camp for young actors with prior musical experience, kids will further their skills. They will learn how to develop a character, use their bodies and voices fully, act a song, prepare a monolouge plus two contrasting scenes and songs from the high energy show. "Hairspray" which they will perform on the last day of camp. Prerequisite: "Intro to Musical Theater Camp," prior performance in a musical, or instructor's approval.

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Purchase tickets for this Summer's Acadamy production of " The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter" below. Performance are Saturday May 31 at 2:00 & 4:00pm and on Sunday June 1 at 5:00pm. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets can also be purchased at the Music Coop.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE! (The Box Office)

All classes and performances are

held in the Oregon Stage Works

theater at 191 A Street in Ashland.

Scholarships available for all classes.

Call Ashland Children's Theatre

Co-director Kate Sullivan:

541.482.2334 ext. 2 Theater Directions

Coming Soon:

Ashland Children's Theater Fall Classes

Instructor Biographies

Eve Smyth (Co- Director) has been acting and performing improvisation for 20 years. After graduating with a degree in theater from San Francisco State University, Eve performed and toured with her own theater company throughout the Northwest. In San Francisco, Eve taught and performed with Bay Area Theater Sports where she was also the Director of their Young Audiences program at BATS Improv, where she facilitated improvisation workshops and performances in schools throughout the Bay Area. As an emerging playwright, Eve has written two scripts for Ashland Children’s Theater, “The Snow White Project” and “The Peter Pan Project”, both of which have played to sold out houses. She has directed the Young Academy Productions. She currently performs with Oregon Stage Works and is a member of the comedy improv troupe the Hamazons.

Kate Sullivan (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 and Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. Last season she performed as an understudy at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Photo coming soon!

Autumn Aloiau has recently moved to Ashland from Orange County where she was a theater major at the Academy for the Performing Arts, and was very active in starting the Musical Theater Department at Edison High School. Autumn directed, choreographed, and produced "Cinderella" at Eader Elementary School. She also has experience choreographing hula, hip-hop, jazz and musical theater. Autumn was the Assistant Director and Stage Manager for the Ashland Children's Theatre most recent production A Thousand Cranes. She looks forward to continuing her work with Ashland Children’s Theatre.

Peter Alzado is the Artistic Director of Oregon Stage Works. After graduating Cum Laude in English and Theatre from Queens College, New York, Peter's debut on Broadway was in Michael Weller's Moon Children , directed by Alan Schneider. He performed with many of the major theatres in New York City including La Mama E.T.C., the New York Shakespeare Festival, the New Phoenix Rep Company, Playwrights Horizons, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Conn. An award winning actor, Peter received his MFA in directing as a Donal Harrington Scholar from the University of Montanna. He has taught acting at universities and professional schools and currently conducts The Craft of The Actor. Peter directed The Peter Pan Project for Ashland Children’s Theatre and continues to support the vision of Ashland Children’s Theater.

Kyndra Laughery has been working with children for the last twelve years as a teacher, storyteller, and creative play facilitator. She performed in the valley for six years with the Greenroom Theater and Second Saturday Players. She teaches improv to children for Walker Elementary Pathways program, OSW Ashland Children’s Theater and Willow Wind. She played” Parsley” in Ashland Children’s Theaters’ production of The Peter Pan Project and “Puck” in their production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Currently she is one of the Warrior Princesses of Comedy, The Hamazons.

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