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Learn how to make pretend fights look real on stage! This introductory camp teaches physical awareness, safety and fundamental moves and techniques. We will explore how stage combat contributes to both staging and storytelling within a scene or production. Stage Combat is an exciting element to add to your actor's toolbox.
Week 3, July 13 – 17, M – F
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Ages 10 – 15
Fee: $120
Instructors: Theater Camp Staff -
Ten-minute plays are quickly becoming a popular format in theatres, colleges, and high school theatre competitions. This new workshop gives campers a chance to bring them to life on stage. Campers will collaborate on props, costumes and set design.
This camp offers a great opportunity to collaborate in small and large group scenes while building confidence and stage presence through rehearsal and performance. Campers will perform in a showcase of their work on the last day of camp.
Week 4, July 20 – July 24, M – F
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Age 9 – 14
Fee: $180
Instructor: Jen Duden -
Campers who are ready to dive deep into creating fully realized stage characters will love this camp, which focuses on making bold, specific physical and acting choices and developing rich backstories. Fascinating and fun, this camp gives campers the chance to strengthen their acting skills by creating detailed, believable characters and exploring who they are onstage. Campers will share their work with a demonstration on the last day of camp.
Week 5, July 27– July 31, M – F
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Ages 10 – 15
Fee: $90
Instructor: Janine Provencher -
This camp explores how story and character come to life through physical movement onstage. Using theatre games, guided exercises, and both individual and group scene work, actors will build body awareness, practice nonverbal storytelling, and develop expressive, intentional movement. Campers will share their progress through a final-day demonstration and short, original devised scenes.
Week 5, July 27– July 31, M – F
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Ages 9-14
Fee: $90
Instructor: Tami Provencher -
Our newest and most exciting Triple Threat Workshop! This is for campers who want to level up the challenge to their acting, singing, and dancing skills and techniques. Guided by professional theatre artists and performers, campers will deepen their love of musical theatre while exploring bolder, more specific character choices and tackling more challenging melodies, harmonies, and choreography. Campers will perform in a showcase for a live audience at the end of the week.
PREREQUISITE: Campers must have taken at least one (1) of the Phipps' Triple Threat Workshops BEFORE registering for this Intensive.
Week 7, August 10 – August 14, M – F
1 – 4 p.m.
Ages 11 – 16
Fee: $180
Instructors: Janine Provencher and Maddy Tax -
This camp is designed for kids with prior experience in fundamental improv skills who are ready to expand their abilities in character development, dialogue, stage presence, and scene partnering. Campers will share a demonstration of what they’ve learned on the final day of camp.
Week 4, July 20 – July 24, M – F
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Ages 10-16
Fee: $90
Instructor: Jen Duden -
In this twist on the classic tale, "that Beast guy" was once a handsome prince—before being cursed by an old woman for being a poor student! He and his servants are cursed into common household objects and cut off from the outside world—until Belle arrives. Fleeing the unwanted attentions of the pompous Gastoff (and in search of a Dairy Queen), Belle stumbles upon the castle and meets a Beast in need of help. As Gastoff and his not‑so‑bright companions give chase, the Beast begins to soften under Belle’s kindness, learning to read and write and discovering the power of compassion. Join us for this wonderful comedy brought to life with wit, delight and a heap of silliness by campers who will give a performance on the last day of camp.
Week 2, July 6 – 10, M – F
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Ages 9 – 14
Fee: $180
Instructor: Janine Provencher -
When powerful newspaper publishers raise prices at the newsboys' expense, the charismatic Jack Kelly rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions. Together, the newsies learn that they are stronger united and create a movement to fight for what's right. Including the now-classic songs "Carrying the Banner," "Seize the Day," and "King of New York," Newsies Jr. is a timeless story full of spirit and heart.
Week 5, July 27– July 31, M – F
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Age 9 -14
Fee: $300
Instructor: Jen Duden and Janine Provencher -
The Hunger Games, The Book Thief, The Firekeepers Daughter. Campers will experiment with transforming words on the page into living, breathing, feeling characters for a live audience. Looking for a deeper dive into dramatic acting? Come and create new stories using your favorites as the foundation through improvisation and other theatre devising techniques.
Week 3, July 13 – 17, M – F
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Ages 9-14
Fee: $120
Instructor: Jen Duden -
Learn the fundamentals of cinematography, storytelling, character development, and video and audio editing, then put those skills into practice by creating and filming your own original movie. Campers will work in small groups to develop and produce their movie. Please bring a device (phone, tablet, ipad) loaded with the iMovie app. Limited devices are available for use by campers; please let us know in advance if you would like to use one. Movies will be screened on the last day of camp. Make a Movie is offered during two different camp weeks.
Week 1, June 22 – 26, M – F, 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Week 6, August 3 – August 7, M – F, 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Ages 9 - 14
Fee: $150
Instructor: Janine Provencher -
Costume design is about far more than dressing an actor—it combines imagination and research to create clothing that reflects a specific historical period, an imagined future, or a fully fictional world. This camp offers campers a chance to experiment with artistic styles and the creative process as they invent mood boards and sketches for an assigned scene or production and their own original ideas. We will also cover some basic construction techniques.
Week 4, July 20 – July 24, M – F
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Ages 9 – 14
Fee: $90
Instructor: Jen Duden -
Lighting design is perhaps theatre's most integrated blend of artistic design and technology. This camp introduces color theory, equipment and virtual console use as well as techniques for using light to tell stories. Campers will create a cue sheet for a short, assigned scene or song.
Week 4, July 20 – July 24, M – F
11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
Ages 10 – 16
Fee: $90
Instructor: Theater Camp Staff -
Have a great idea for a play? Already started working on one? This camp is for new and emerging playwrights. Come and learn the basics of writing scripts for the stage. Work in collaboration with teacher and fellow writers to hone your dialogue and character development. Finish the week with some stage-ready script material!
Week 3, July 13 – 17, M – F
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Ages 10 – 16
Fee: $90
Instructor: Theater Camp Instructor -
An introduction to designing the sets, costumes, props, lights and sound that enhance the magic of every theatre experience. Each day campers will explore and experiment using their own creative ideas alongside a professional theatre artist and designer as they become the Design Crew for our Performance Comedy camp production.
Week 2, July 6 – 10, M – F
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Ages 10 – 15
Fee: $180
Instructor: Jen Duden -
Want to learn what happens behind the scenes of a show? The Phipps has been training stage managers for decades and here is YOUR chance to get in on the fun. This camp teaches you the essentials: how productions run, organizational tools stage managers use, and the specific skills you need to call a show. This camp will set you up to be a successful stage manager in your schools and other community theatres. If you love theatre and have great leadership and organizational skills this is the camp for you!
Week 7, August 10 – August 14, M – F
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Ages 12 – 16
Fee: $90
Instructors: Tami Provencher
