Give your child a week of imagination, collaboration, and performance!
The Summer Starr Theater Camp is a dynamic, weeklong experience for kids ages 8–14 who are curious about how theater works— onstage and off!
The camp brings professional artists and educators together to guide campers through the fundamentals of writing, acting, directing, and design. Campers will explore a curated script and create original mini-performances of their own, developing confidence, creativity, and collaboration skills along the way.
Each week of camp will culminate in a final performance on Friday from 3-4 pm involving all the campers. Family and caregivers are welcome to attend!
Whether your child dreams of center stage or thrives behind the scenes, this camp
offers a supportive and inspiring space to try it all.
Spots are limited — register today!
About the Instructors
Andrew Scoville is a NYC-based, Chicago-born director and creator of original work. He specializes in immersive layouts, technological landscapes, and hybrid-genre storytelling with a passion for integrating science ideas and game mechanics into live experiences. Scoville served as the head of advanced project leadership at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU) and has taught at various public schools in NY and NJ with The Metropolitan Opera Guild. He is also a member of the 2011 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
Jaclyn Backhaus is a playwright, screenwriter, & educator hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. She is a professor of playwriting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, a New Dramatists Resident Playwright, a creative director at Fresh Ground Pepper NYC, and an editor of weekly theater zine @oootheater. She was the 2016 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Clubbed Thumb and a former member of The Kilroys.
Schedule
This is a 2 week camp from August 17th through August 28th from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Monday through Friday at The Bushwick Starr. However, you're absolutely welcome to join us for only one of the weeks if you wish!
During these two weeks, campers will:
- Rehearse scenes from a play for young actors
- Create original mini-performances through writing and acting
- Explore directing, set, costume and prop design
- Perform for family on the final day
- Be expected to bring a sack lunch and snacks each day.
Weather permitting, we will make time to do some of our work outdoors and may do some additional work off site. Parents will be informed ahead of time if this is ever the case.
Costs:
Affordable - $300/week
Have limited expendable income, often worry about basic needs, paying off debt conflicts with paying for basic needs, underemployed, seldom buy new items, cannot afford vacations.
This is equivalent to $10/hr child care
Median Cost - $400/week
Have some expendable income, sometimes worry about basic needs but regularly meet them, some debt that doesn't hinder basic needs, employed, some/occasional access to savings, able to buy some new items but gets others used, can take a vacation every few years w/out financial burden
This is equivalent to $13/hr child care
True Cost - $500/week
Have expendable income, with basic needs met. Comfortable debt/income ratio, employed, access to savings, can buy most things w/out stress, can take the occasional vacation w/out financial burden
This is equivalent to $17/hr child care
Pay it forward - $750/week
Have plenty of expendable income and/or acces to family wealth, rarely worry about basic needs, comfortable debt/income ratio, employed, access to savings, can eat out often w/out stress, can take regular vacations w/out financial burden.
This is equivalent to $25/hr child care
*If none of these cost options are possible for you, feel free to reach out via summercamp@thebushwickstarr.org and we'd love to come up with a plan that is feasible for you!
**Please note a deposit of 50% is require to secure your spot!