This week was yet again the end of another one week camp! This time I got to work with the extraordinary Jenna Kuerzi as my co-teacher while being with the 8-11 year old's yet again. Rather than taking charge with writing, the students had a lot of freedom to create since a number of them were previous campers or students. We came up with a show titled Animal Kingdom. It was the story of humans trying to put animals in cages so the animals fought back. In addition to our afte

This month I had the absolute pleasure to be back at Camp Walnut for the fifth time! This year I got to play the role of assistant director, choreographer, and music director for the group Discovery II where we created a devised adaption of Alice in Wonderland titled Alice Your Honor: A Wonderland Melodrama. Due to the devised nature of the show, my partner Dave Allison (director and writer) and I came in on day one with an idea of what we wanted the show to look like. Howeve

Today marked the last day of June One Week Camps at the Walnut! I was working with the 8-11 year olds with Grace McKenna to create and devise a show in one week, in addition to working with Molly Hoffstader and Evan Hilborn to teach different masterclasses for all students aged 8-17 in the mornings. This was incredibyl fun! We wrote a show called Zoogether which was about two groups of animals coming together to find the missing zookeeper. It was cute and the kids had a blast

Today was my last day being the Education Apprentice at the Walnut Street Theatre! It's been a fantastic year: I've been able work in the various Educational Programming, understudy and perform on Tour, teach hundreds of students, lose dozens of hours of sleep, work with some really cool people, and get to clown around with my friends! While I have no idea what I'm doing after the summer ends (if anyone's hiring, hit me up!), I'm going to be looking back at this year and miss

Today was the final day of Adopt-A-School! This year I was at three school - Lamberton Elementary, Hackett Elementary, and Meredith Elementary working with students K-8. This program was the one that had most of my attention during the apprenticeship this year and it was very unique in how it operates. AAS had us at a school for four cycles with each cycle consisting of six classes: Improv, Dance, Public Speaking, Writing, Singing, and a review day. I was partnered with Linds