Creative Collaboration: Let's Make a Play!
Have you ever wanted to create a play of your own? Together, you and your fellow campers will work as an ensemble to write, design, rehearse and perform an original work of theatre! We are looking for energetic, creative folks who are ready to work hard and play hard! All skill levels and “characters” welcome!
While our group dynamic will determine the specifics of our camp, there are a few guarantees:
- We will create community by beginning each day with vocal and physical warm-ups
- We will play theatre and improvisational games to stir the imagination and to develop important performance skills.
- We will work as an ensemble to create an original performance piece using dialogue, storytelling, movement and song…ultimately anything is game!
- We will design every aspect of the performance as a group and will make the costumes, set and props come to life.
- And most importantly, we will perform our original theatre piece on the last day of camp for our friends and family! This may be an evening performance.
This is going to be fast paced week, filled with lots of fun and lots of focus! We can’t wait to see what you create!
The Teachers
Jenn Hartmann
Jenn holds a BA in Theatre Performance from Arizona State University and is currently an MFA Candidate in the UT Drama and Theatre for Youth program. She began her work as a teaching artist in Arizona in 1998. She moved to NYC where she taught at Biz Kids, NY, a professional acting school for kids, and was commissioned to write and perform at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. She then spent three years in Los Angeles with Center Theatre Group in their world renowned education department, while working as adjunct faculty at Azusa Pacific University. Jenn is also a singer/songwriter having produced two solo, original folk-rock albums, as well as her one-woman show, Not a Chorus Girl, on both coasts. Here in Austin she has taught theatre with many organizations including The Paramount Theatre and Theatre Action Project. She co-created a new children’s musical called Footprints: A Musical Eco-Tale, which was selected for The University Co-Op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival 2009 and is very interested in devising new musical and theatrical work with young people.
Lindsay Genshaft
Lindsay holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently an MFA candidate in the UT Drama and Theatre for Youth program. She worked as a musical theatre actor for over ten years, performing in New York City, on national tours and in regional theatres across the country. She has also worked as a teaching artist. playwright and director in Alaska, Ohio, New York and Texas. Lindsay has been a member of the Actors Equity Association since 2002. In her first year at UT, Lindsay co-created a new children’s musical called Footprints: A Musical Eco-Tale which was selected for The University Co-Op Presents the Cohen New Works Festival 2009. She also creates museum theatre programming for young people at the Blanton Museum of Art.