FMTA summer camps are designed to educate students about the process of creating live theatre while teaching students to prioritize the ensemble over the individual.
Camps consist of games, crafts, and staging a mini musical revue, one act play, or role play adventure that students get to share with families (Invited final showings are only offered to camps lasting 2 or more weeks.) This is a great place to start if you have a child interested in the arts! Scroll down for more detail
Tackle songs and scenes from your favorite Broadway musicals: Matilda, Shrek The Musical, Peter Pan, Annie, Oliver!, Into the Woods, Mary Poppins, and more! This one-week camp is aimed at strengthening skills for performance while having fun with friends. Campers will learn exhilarating songs and dances, create unique characters, tell stories, have fun with stagecraft, and form bonds with new and old friends as we explore musical and film inspired themes!
Campers will work as an ensemble to stage their own mini musical revue for family & friends on the last of camp.
6/17 thru 6/21
Monday thru Friday
9 am-12 pm
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
$ 250.00
Min. 12/Max. 20
PATTERNS, CHARACTERS & SKETCH COMEDY
Join us for these four day camps designed to dive directly into the techniques behind the best improvisational comedy while playing with an ensemble of fellow actors hungry for laughter! Campers will work as an ensemble to stage their own comedy showcase for family & friends on final day of camp.
We will play with props, music, character, body movement and scripted sketch comedy. Students in middle school will be introduced to long format improvisational theatre and sketch writing.
6/24 thru 6/27
Monday thru Thursday
9 am-12 pm
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
$ 225.00
Min. 12/Max. 20
This ain't your great, great, great, great, great grandma's Shakespeare! Join us for this intensive romp into the world of Shakespeare as we cast and stage one of his most famous plays in just two intense weeks!
COMEDY, COMBAT & CHARACTER will dominate our focus this summer, as we rehearse the bard's classic tragedy: ROMEO & JULIET or The Old "You-know-I-really-love-you-but-my-father-really-hates-you-blues" adapted by Nancy Linehan Charles of PCPA.
Told through the comical lens of three teen narrators and set in the deep south, our stylized retelling will expose young actors to the basics of stage combat, Shakespearean language, voice and speech, physical comedy, characterization, stagecraft and more. Open to students entering 5th-9th grades.
6/17 thru 6/28
Monday thru Friday
1 pm-4 pm
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
$ 450.00
Enrollment Min. 16/Max. 26
Join us for a thrilling week of fantasy role play as we embark upon an adventure in a world we build together! Questers will create characters, fabricate paraprofessional cosplay props, play games and make bonds before staging a magical and mysterious adventure containing built-in puzzles, obstacles, monsters, villains and special effects to be played out during our final day(s). Part escape room, part stagecraft class, part creative writing guild, part performance, this unique take on theatrical art is both fun and full of surprises! Epic battles will be fought, magical items will be found, and sacrifices will be made as the parties race against the clock!
Questers will enact their adventure quest around the campus on our final day(s), where bonds are sure to be made and broken in the name of power!
Please note: there is no showcase for family & friends, as our quest is staged for the actors to play out in real time. All cosplay props created will go home with questers on our final day.
7/8 thru 7/12
Monday thru Friday
9 am-12 pm (Elementary) & 1 pm-4 pm (Middle)
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
$ 275.00
Enrollment Min. 12/Max. 20
A MYSTERY NIGHT is an interactive, improvisational gathering where each guest has been given a detailed character background, and a role in a story that will be played out over the course of three hours or so. Usually, one person is the perpetrator of a crime (or murder, for our older actors) and their job is to escape detection and put the blame onto someone else.
As well as solving the main crime, everyone has other goals – maybe to find hidden pirate treasure or to blackmail a rival, win another's heart, help a friend, or maybe just make as much money as possible.
These character goals support young actors as they grow to understand the "motives" behind character choices and behaviors. The format includes a pre-event "break the ice & prepare" group meeting lead by the director, and supports acting & improvisational skills, story-building, reading comprehension, communication and, as always, is incredibly fun!
In fact, we even offer mystery nights for adults! It's a perfect way to spend an evening with friends or colleagues, and is designed to go well with dinner or tapas, drinks and music!
Here is what is included:
ADVENTURE QUEST: Fantasy LARP (Live Action Role Play) is more than just storytelling and games. Dungeons & Dragons comes alive in this club, as questers become the heroes in their own adventures through Live Action Role Play campaigns, quests and challenges in the mythical worlds they create. Questers will design their own characters, fabricate props and participate in the creative process of collaborative world building, as well as the adventures they have within it. This isn't seated gameplay. This is a complete fantasy role playing experience from start to finish, with mysteries to solve, treasures to hunt, monsters to quell and more. Join us on the adventure!!
MORE ABOUT LARP (Live Action Role Play)
This combination of live improvisational theater, physical education, creative writing, props fabrication/tinkering, collaboration and gameplay is designed for all ages (emerging readers through teen) and fully supports STEAM education! We have clubs for grades 1-2 (lower elementary), 3-5 (upper elementary), 6-8 (middle school) and 9-12 (high school). We combine these arts with critical thinking, creative problem solving, and community leadership skills. Quests include props fabrication, costume design, detailed character creation, puzzles, riddles, treasures, monsters, epic heroes, villains and a lot of laughter! Come and be part of the unique interdisciplinary experience that the LARP Adventure Quest offers!
PROPS FABRICATION: Students will work with various tools & mediums (foam, wood, wire, paint, clay and more), to create magical items and boffers (soft, foam props for LARP) before setting out on a quest of their design!
More questions? Contact US!
COMEDY IMPROV BLAST! is a workshop for those who like to laugh! Sessions are 2 day workshops OR 1 night workshop style events designed to incorporate various improvisational theatre techniques and games while fostering self esteem and humility. Two day workshops culminate with an informal performance for family and friends. Each single night event includes dinner and games (no performance).
Comedy improv is a basic in the actor's toolkit. The techniques are BOTH fun, and influence self esteem and collaborative skills. The backbone of theatrical comedy is the support of the ensemble. This is why our workshops are so much fun!
We'll play with props, learn pantomime, and get physical. and more as we bring comical scenes and scenarios to life. The fun builds from there, as the more the group relaxes, the more ridiculous things get!
Older actors (12-17) interested in gaining new skills or auditioning for BITE in the fall are encouraged to check out a workshop this summer. as we work with intermediate techniques and brush up on basics.
AGES 8-11 & 12-17
Welcome to the Tremaine School of Magic, which is located within an ancient British castle. The castle is built at the top of a cliff and is miles from the nearest town or city. Students and Professors live in the castle during the school year, but today is the last day of school before summer break.
Last night, someone painted a red X on the Headmaster's door. This morning Professor Bennet, the Headmaster, woke up unable to remember anything. Not even his own name! Parents are convinced that the school is under some sort of magical attack, and the professors have announced that if the culprit is not caught, the school will close and will not reopen next year. Professor Riley Karlsen, the most senior teacher, is overseeing investigations. No-one may leave the school grounds before the end of the school day. Anyone caught doing so will be presumed guilty and detained for questioning.
Even with all of that going on, today is still the dreaded day of finals. Each professor will give an exam and grade the students' performance, and a full scholarship will be awarded to the student with the highest grades.
Let's hope the students' memories are working better than the unfortunate Professor Bennet's!
Welcome to Las Vegas, where, as the saying goes, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."
The Sapphire Hotel and Casino hosts Vegas' hottest ticket – Jaspar the Great's Magic Show. Jaspar never disappoints, and his show climaxes with his famous vanishing act, where he disappears into a case and reappears wearing an extravagant costume unique for each show!
Tonight, however, when his assistant unveiled the case, Jaspar did not reappear – the case was empty! His assistant shrieked and ran off the stage in tears – but was that all part of the act? What happened to Jaspar?
It is now an hour later, and Jaspar has yet to make an appearance. Undercover FBI agent, Declan Grant, is holding everyone in the casino for questioning. Everyone may mingle but cannot leave until the mystery of Jaspar's disappearance has been solved.
The pandemonium is just beginning… a magician, a bag of money, and a pet chihuahua have all vanished. Who is responsible? A ghost and a Bengal tiger aren't the only suspicious culprits. Con artists, mafia thugs, blackmailers, and thieves will all come into play.
Get ready for a one-of-a-kind, spectacular evening at The Sapphire on the Strip in Vanished in Vegas!
AGES 12-17; Grades 7-12
It is 1763 and off a small island in the Caribbean, pirate ships have gathered to compete in the annual pirate games. At the games the ships' crews will compete against each other to gain the most doubloons – and the crew with the most doubloons by the end of the games wins!
There is a twist to the night, for two of the pirate crews that descend upon the sleepy Caribbean island of Santo Oloroso -- are old enemies. Are they here to avenge the loss of their former master Captain Flint, or to find and grab his treasure?
Old enmities will surface, deals will be made and broken, and some folk may walk the plank while others receive the dreaded Black Spot, before these affairs are settled, for good or ill.
Will fortune favor the brave? Will dastardly deeds derail the the games? How many Pieces of Eight make a Doubloon? Find out all this and more at PIRATE ISLAND.
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