Theatre Arts Summer Camp for Ages 8-12 with Theatre Artist and Educator Siouxsie Easter

Crafting the Story 9am - 12pm

Learn the skills and joys of devising, playwriting, collaborating, and crafting original works for the stage. Discover the inner storyteller, practice creative writing, develop characters and plot, and get positive feedback from a professional as you prep a piece for public performance. Go home with an awesome piece of writing to share.

Performing the Story 1pm - 4pm

Develop the essential skills of acting, directing and producing a play. Learn how to approach and interpret a text and bring an original work to life on the stage. Through the rehearsal and production process, students build essential skills of comprehension, focus, work ethic, professionalism, and confidence. Perform in the world premiere of a selection of short original works for family and friends on 3:30pm on Friday, June 30th.

Half Day Playwriting Camp for Ages 8-12 with Theatre Artist and Educator Siouxsie Easter.

Crafting the Story 9am - 12pm

Learn the skills and joys of devising, playwriting, collaborating, and crafting original works for the stage. Discover the inner storyteller, practice creative writing, develop characters and plot, and get positive feedback from a professional as you prep a piece for public performance. Go home with an awesome piece of writing to share. This registers a student for the half-day option only, focused on devising and writing.

Explore the option of going Full Day and participating in the performance of these original works...

Half Day Performance Camp for Ages 8-12 with Theatre Artist and Educator Siouxsie Easter

Performing the Story 1pm - 4pm

Develop the essential skills of acting, directing and producing a play. Learn how to approach and interpret a text and bring an original work to life on the stage. Through the rehearsal and production process, students build essential skills of comprehension, focus, work ethic, professionalism, and confidence. Full Day and PM campers perform in the world premiere of a selection of short original works for family and friends on 3:30pm on Friday, June 30th. This registers a student for the afternoon half-day option only, focused on performing.

Explore the option of going Full Day and participating in the devising and writing of these original works.

3-Week Summer Intensive for Ages 13-18

The Summer Conservatory is an innovative program offering teenagers a chance to study all aspects of theatre under the mentorship of professional artists.

Students attending the 2023 Stage West's Summer Conservatory will experience:

• Audition, rehearse and present a live, fully-produced world premiere of The Curse of Windhollow Creek, by Resident Playwright Rob Bosquez, Jr., directed by Justin Flowers
• Engage in the process that Stage West's creative teams use to develop unique, artistically superb theatrical experiences, which typically feature original dialogue, movement-based devised theatre, puppetry, masks, and ensemble work, coupled with full costumes, sets and lights
• Receive 2 professional, edited digital headshots from photographer Evan Michael Woods of Amphibian Stage Productions
• Witness the behind-the-scenes process of the design, production, and rehearsal elements necessary to produce a show at a professional theatre
• Collaborate in groups to write and create short films that will be shown to their peers.
• Assist designers with the creation of the production's technical elements
• Receive instruction from some of the top industry teaching artists in the Dallas-Fort Worth theatre scene.

THE CURSE OF WINDHOLLOW CREEK by Rob Bosquez & Justin Flowers

When two irreconcilable siblings, who are prodigy detectives, take on the Curse of Windhollow Creek they must solve the case before their best friend becomes its latest victim. The selfish pair must now be willing to sacrifice themselves in order to stop the culprit, solve the mystery, and save the town. Only if they give up their feud and learn to work together will they make it to the next full moon...