Theatre Camp at Summer Academy 2011
Theatre Camp • July 24-29
At theatre camp you will explore character, voice, movement, and performance techniques in classes designed to help you realize your stage potential. Afternoons will be spent rehearsing a play, which you’ll perform in the Little Theatre on Friday for friends and family.
Saint Mary's Summer Academy Classes
The morning will be spent in the Acting Studio in Regina Hall, filled with daily classes in improvisational acting, movement studies, and vocal (speech) training for the actor. The afternoon will be spent in the Little Theatre, Moreau Center for the Arts, taking a characterization class, where each member will learn the art of writing and performing her own three-minute character sketch (imagined and invented by the student). Along with Professor Katie Sullivan, who will be teaching the classes, two senior theatre majors at Saint Mary's, will assist with the characterization class. This will allow each camper to get frequent opportunities for one-on-one instruction and direction in shaping and performing (for families on Friday afternoon) her character portrait.
It is suggested that each camper bring one bag of fun hats, scarves, pull-on skirts, jackets, bags, ties, shoes, shawls, aprons, etc. which can be pooled into a collective from which the acting class can improvise, play, and costume their fresh and exciting new characters.
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Typical Schedule
| 7:00 a.m. |
Wake up |
| 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast/Announcements |
| 8:00 a.m. | Class 1 |
| 9:30 a.m. | Class 2 |
| 11:00 a.m. | Computer Lab |
| 12:15 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Class 3 |
| 3:00 p.m. | Class 4 |
| 4:15 p.m. | Computer Lab |
| 5:30 p.m. | Dinner |
| 6:30 p.m. | Evening Activity |
| 10:30 p.m. | Head for Bed |
Saint Mary's Summer Academy Staff
Summer Academy Assistant Director - Nicole Hartwig
Theatre Instructors - Katie Sullivan
Summer Academy Counselors
Emily Kieffer will be a senior this year at Saint Mary’s. She grew up in Dublin, Ohio, surrounded by all things Irish as well as the infamous concrete corn. She is majoring in Spanish with minors in secondary education and English as a new language. She is involved in the Spanish Club, Around the World Club, Campus Ministry, Women’s Spirituality Group, and is a resident advisor in LeMans Hall. During the spring of her sophomore year, she studied abroad in Sevilla, Spain, where she fell in love with Spanish culture and put more miles on her shoes than she could have imagined. This will be her first year as a camp counselor, and she is excited to meet the campers and have a great summer!
Madison Thatcher will be starting her senior year at Saint Mary’s College in the fall. She is an elementary education major and getting a double minor in early childhood development and reading. Madison has a passion for working with children and is excited to have her own classroom. She is extremely close to her family and says that her parents and grandparents are her best friends. She also loves summertime and the beauty of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. If you ask her what the greatest decision she ever made was, she would respond with enthusiasm that choosing Saint Mary’s as her college was the best thing that has ever happened to her. Her time at school has been filled with making lifelong friends, finding her passion in life, and embarking on ventures that she never dreamed possible. She is so excited to be involved with the Summer Academy because she can share her love of Saint Mary’s with girls who could one day join the special bond of the Saint Mary’s tradition. Madison is looking forward to the time she gets to spend with her counselors and sharing in their guaranteed positive time spent at camp!
Camp Forms
Summer Academy Handbook
