Exploring Acting and Theatre Camp

Spend a week exploring acting trying out several acting techniques and learning about actors’ tools including voice, movement and improvisation. Campers will be assigned roles in scenes or short plays and will also be introduced to some of the technical aspects of producing theatre.  Campers will learn how to work together as an ensemble and develop the confidence to stand in the spotlight. Enjoy five days of fun and and challenging activities that will culminate in a chance to share some of what you have learned with family and friends. Campers have the option to continue their theatre journey in out second week of camp where continuing campers will participate in more advanced scene study musical theatre instruction.

What to Bring:Clothes that you can move and dance in, lunch or lunch money, and your imagination and creativity!  Later in the camp we may ask campers to bring props and costume pieces from home.

Instructors:

Suzanne Richard has been an actor, dancer, director and teaching artist in the DC metro area for 24 years.  She has appeared as the Ghost of Christmas Past in Ford’s Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol” and other roles in productions with The Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Washington Shakespeare Company, and others as well as touring internationally with Liz Lerman’s Dance Exchange.  She has received a Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Director of a Resident Musical and was awarded the Theatre Lobby’s Mary Goldwater Award for Outstanding Director. She is Artistic Director of Open Circle Theatre and Board Member of Story Tapestries, the partner organizations joining with Good Counsel to present these exciting theatre experiences.  And for those of you who are locals, she also is the director of the Farquhar Middle School Musicals across the street. Please feel free to contact her with any questions at director@opencircletheatre.org.

Valerie Baugh-Schlossberg has been a theatre director, educator, writer and actor for the past 24 years in theaters all over the US and Canada.  Specializing in musical theatre she has taught and directed people of all ages from preschool to adult. Some of her directing credits include: “Annie jr, “Schoolhouse Rock Jr,”  “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “Hamlet.” Her performer credits include Sophie in “Master Class,” and Angie Cavatelli in New York Dinner Theatre and the National Touring Company of  “Joey and Mary’s Irish Italian Wedding” and She has a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Florida and has completed various post baccalaureate courses in theatre pedagogy, education, and theatre for youth.