Summer Camp 2012!
Registration details
Camps are Monday - Friday.
Full day (9-3pm) camps are $185 per week
Early Bird Discount: $15
Half day camps are $90 per week
Early Bird Discount: $5
To qualify for Early Bird discounted price, full tuition must be paid when registering and registration must be postmarked on or before May 15, 2012.
After Care with OFT Interns is available Monday - Thursday until 5:30 pm for camps ending at 3pm at an additional cost of $10 per day.
Download our Summer Camp brochure for full camp session descriptions, schedules and more!
To secure enrollment, please send a non-refundable $25 deposit for each student and each camp along with registration, medical/liability, and behavior agreement forms. The balance is due on the first day of class. Scholarships are available thanks to the generous support of our donors and a grant from Encore Arts! Download the scholarship application and send it in by May 15, 2012 to apply.
Refund policy: Refunds are not given once class is in session. Full refund will be given if class is cancelled by OFT for any reason.
Camp Schedule
| Date, Time, Ages, Teacher(s) | Title and Description |
|---|---|
| June 25-29 9am - 3pm Ages 8-12 Amaya Eckel |
Musical Theater Showcase! Join us to explore creative movement, acting, vocal exercises, jam sessions, improv and simple choreography. Take your singing out of the shower and onto the stage! |
| July 2 - 6 9am - 11:30am Ages 9 and up Sam Cori |
Freeing the Natural Voice This half-day camp (9am - 11:30am) will teach campers all about the healthy use of the amazing instrument you carry with you every day - your voice! Students will prepare solo or group vocal pieces and/or a monologue or scene. |
| July 2 - 6 Mark Alford |
Improv: Acting by the Seat of Your Pants Imagine this half-day camp (noon - 3pm) as “Whose line is it anyway?” for kids! Students will learn short-form improvisation in a high-energy, silly space focused on building skills while having a blast! |
| July 9 - 13 9am - 11:30am Ages 3½ - 5 Terri Charles | Preschool Superheroes In this half-day camp (9am - 11:30) we will give your preschoolers a cape, so watch out! Campers will transform themselves into super heroes and we will use pretend play, songs, and games to help these Heroes-in-Training to feel empowered, strong, and confident. |
| July 9-13 Noon - 3pm Ages 6-10 Stephanie Claire | Miles of Smiles: singing, stories, and crafts This half-day camp (noon - 3pm) will be full of singing, choreography and crafts as we incorporate stories, and learning songs around the theme of smiles. Songs will include, “You’re Never Fully Dressed without a Smile” and many more! |
| July 16 - 20 9am - 3pm Ages 5-8 Terri Charles and Stephanie Claire | The 3 Little Pigs and the Misunderstood Wolf Campers will rehearse and perform an original play/story including music - all about those famous pigs and the “big bad” wolf, focusing on friendship, while incorporating music into our play and some current facts about real wolves in the NW! |
| July 23 - 27 9am - 3pm Ages 6-10 Sovay Hansen and Mandy Ryle | Over the Rainbow A colorful musical theater camp! Over the rainbow you will find a safe place for kids to play music and theater games, practice singing and speaking, movement, miming and much more! Each camper will develop a short solo, duet or small group performance. |
| July 30 - August 3 9am - 3pm Ages 8-12 Kate Ayers | Play a Part! In one week we will put on a play! Everyone will have “a good part” with lots to do and say. Learn what it takes to put on a play- blocking, character development, projection - you name it - all in one week! This summer’s show will be all about Laughter! |
| August 6 - 10 9am - 3pm Ages 12-16 Kate Ayers and Samantha Chandler | Write to Perform With exciting daily themes, students will write, improvise, and create theater pieces from; personal stories, newspaper articles, letters, music, and art. In the a.m. we will formulate ideas to get them on paper. In the afternoon they will come alive - putting the pieces “on their feet” . |
| August 13 - 17 9am - 3pm Ages 9-13 Steven Wells | “Heroes and Villians”Stage Combat Learn the basics of stage combat in a fun, safe, active, and exciting week of camp. Class will culminate in a simple choreographed routine where each camper will get to play both the hero and the villain. |
| August 20 - 24 9am - 3pm Ages 6-9 Amaya Eckel | Fairy Tale Theater Once upon a time there was a magical camp where children gathered for theater games, music, movement, crafts, and fairy tale fun! Campers will explore a wide variety of fairy tales and create an original fairy tale piece together. |
Teacher Bios
Kate Ayers has toured extensively throughout the Midwest performing in educational theatre programs in schools and museums. She has written curriculum for theatre based programming and has 20+ years teaching experience ranging from preschoolers to university students. As Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Children’s Theatre, Inc., (90-97), Kate was active in all areas of educational theatre from playwriting, teaching, and directing. Ms. Ayers ran the Theatre program at the Indiana Women’s Prison for 10 years, studied at the Goodman Theatre School, and graduated at Columbia and the Playback School at Vassar. She has her Masters in Applied Sociology and uses theatre for business management training, and team building. Kate appeared locally with Olympia Family Theater in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Samantha Chandler can remember her first time on stage at age eight. She sang “I Whistle a Happy Tune”, from The King and I at the elementary school talent night. Ever since then, theater has played an important part in her life. She is a co-founder and the Managing Director of Olympia Family Theater. Before that, she was a teacher at Washington Middle School and during that time her desire to expose more young people to theater grew into the dream of opening a “children’s” theater in Olympia. She is proud to be making Olympia Family Theater the place that kids will one day remember as the first place they saw live theater. Samantha has studied performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Freehold Theatre Studio in Seattle, and with the amazing members of UMO. She has directed student plays at Washington Middle School, and has performed in a number of independent theater productions in Olympia in the past decade. Her favorites include The Transfused, Julius Caesar, and the Boomtown trilogy.
Terri Charles has taught music and movement classes for young children (newborn to 7 years) for eleven years. You may have seen her playing a mom, witch, Turtle, or teacher in an OFT play or musical, as she has acted in several OFT productions since its first season. She has been teaching OFTeenies classes since fall 2011, loving every single minute!
Stephanie Claire is excited to be back with OFT for Summer Camp! You usually see her at the piano for OFT’s musicals (like Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Bunnicula) or waving her arms at singers getting them to sing funny warm-ups. She has taught piano and voice in the Olympia area for 30+ years and has directed many choirs and productions, accompanied for theatres, churches, choirs, and ballet classes, music classes in public schools, private schools and The Evergreen State College. Stephanie got her Bachelor’s in Music in California and her Master’s in Theatre Production from Central. She also loves to act and sing, sail, play tennis, make baskets, and travel to Hawaii.
Amaya Eckel is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where she majored in English (with an emphasis on Creative Writing). She has 4 years of teaching experience ranging from English, Creative Writing, Math, PE, and Performing Arts in grades K-8. Her passion for theater and performance are well married with her drive to keep the arts in schools. Amaya has been performing on stage and in front of the camera for over 10 years. She was most recently seen as Chester in Olympia Family Theater's production, Bunnicula.
Sovay Hansen is a student at The Evergreen State College where she works as a Student Ambassador and volunteers as the commodore of the Evergreen Crew Team. She has studied literature, analytical writing, philosophy, law, German and Opera. She worked for 5 years for the Tucson Waldorf School as a musical theater director for their summer program. She loves children, hiking, rock climbing, yoga, literature and vocal performance.
Mandy Ryle is an original member of the “OFT family”. You may have seen her on stage for OFT in some of her favorite roles such as Sophie in The BFG, or Jo in Little Women. You also may have caught her working backstage or in the booth, or as an intern for lots of OFT camps where she may or may not have made up a song about you on the ukulele! She attended CTE for several summers and she graduated from OHS in 2011. Currently she is a student at The Evergreen State College.
Steven Wells is a teaching artist working with Olympia Family Theater, Mariah Art School, and Olympia Community School. You can also see him on stage locally. Some of Steven’s more recent productions include his roles for Olympia Family Theater as Alexander in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Toad in A Year With Frog and Toad, and in Capital Playhouse’s productions as Professor Baer in Little Women, brother Gad in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Mr. Bucket in Willy Wonka. He studied musical theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Steven has lived and performed in both LA and Chicago.