Attend High School Acting Summer Camp At Interlochen

Interlochen offers you an exceptional, immersive high school acting summer camp opportunity: training with world-class theatre faculty, interacting with guest performing artists, learning in set design and production, and making new friendships with other young theatre students from around the world. This summer, choose Interlochen Arts Camp and experience the stage like you never have before.

Polish Your Performance

As the world’s leading arts education institution for young performers, Interlochen invites you to attend a high school acting camp and experience the best available summer opportunity to study theatre. All of Interlochen’s high school theatre camps—whether one week, three weeks, or six weeks long—are designed for serious young actors and require an audition or portfolio.

One-Week Intensives

If your summer is packed and you only have time for a short acting camp experience, our one-week intensives are the perfect opportunity for you. Intensives kick off the summer schedule at Interlochen in mid-June and are offered in seven areas: acting audition, costume design, musical theatre audition, musical theatre techniques, songwriting for musical theatre, sound design, and stage management.

Three-Week Programs

For a mid-length camp, high school students can attend any of Interlochen’s three-week programs on acting, theatre design and production, or musical theatre showcase. Our Acting Summer Program explores dramatic presentation on both stage and screen, giving students opportunities to work with multiple expert actors and theatre mentors. Our Theatre Design & Production Summer Program explores set, lighting, and sound design, and students produce a full-length, live performance at the end of the session. Our Musical Theatre Showcase Summer Program combines education in singing, dancing, and acting—helping students develop consistency and strength in all three parts of this complex performance art.

Six-Week Programs

Young artists interested in a theatre career or future in the performing arts should apply to attend a six-week session. These longer high school acting summer camp options begin in June and end in August. During the Acting Company Production Summer Program, faculty members work closely with each student to develop their acting techniques, vocal strength, and stage movement skills. The Musical Theatre Production Summer Program includes private voice lessons, dance classes, and extensive rehearsals where you can refine being able to bring a story to life. Students in these six-week programs are coached to prepare and perform a diverse selection of classic and contemporary theatre works. The sessions culminate in a full-length, professionally designed event, with multiple performances in the Harvey Theatre.

Storytelling on Stage

High school acting summer camp at Interlochen is designed to help you develop your passion for performing. If you enjoy the physical experience of telling stories in front of an audience… If you thrive in putting a play together—designing lights, sound, and set… If you love the combination of song, choreography, and acting… Then, Interlochen’s acting camps are the perfect learning opportunity for you.

Each camp gives you the chance to take your acting skills to the next level. If you’re a beginner, faculty help you learn the basics. If you’ve taken acting courses before, the coaching experience at Interlochen will refine your skills further and provide you with targeted feedback for improvement.

Facilities and Friends

Multiple aspects of the Interlochen Arts Camp experience have earned it international recognition as the premier learning opportunity for young artists.

Interlochen’s facilities—including the Harvey Theatre complex—are designed to accommodate education, rehearsal, and performance for all levels of campers. Other venues include a 952-seat auditorium and a black box theatre. Production classes utilize a full costume shop and extensive scene shop in helping students learn to create sets and design shows. Each space accessed by the acting camps is state-of-the-art and fully dedicated to student education.

Student camaraderie is big part of high school acting summer camp at Interlochen as well. Every year, our students develop friendships with other young actors from around the world, inspiring one another in their love of theatre and pushing each other to try new things! Whether you interact for one week or six weeks, the memories you make together at Interlochen’s beautiful Michigan lakeside campus will last a lifetime.