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

It has been such a busy two weeks for me due to a program called Disney Musicals in Schools. This was created by Disney Theatricals to bring theatre to elementary schools. The program teaches schools how to build their own sustainable theatre program and culminates with performances of a thirty minutes "Kids" production of a Disney show. Every year, the Walnut brings two schools into the program with two teaching artists per school. This year Hamilton Disston chose to do "The

Last night was the annual WST Spring Gala and it was such a fun event! This is hosted yearly to raise funds for Educational Programming such as Adopt-A-School and the Outreach Tours. As an apprentice, I had the opportunity to both work and enjoy the evening, bouncing back and forth between assisting with the auction and meeting donors and board members and talking about my year as an apprentice. In addition to the auction, there were performances by MainStage performers and t