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Acting Company Production Summer Program for Grades 6-8
Why Take Acting Company Production
In this program for students in grades 6-8, you'll develop your skills in acting, voice, and physical characterization. You'll learn how to connect truthfully with a partner on stage, and to honestly pursue an action. Your summer will culminate with you performing in a fully produced play!
What You'll Learn
The Acting Company Production program is designed for students with theatre experience. You'll work with high-caliber instructors to develop the physicality, knowledge, and tools to be a successful performer. You'll finish the summer with three performances of a play with full technical and design support.
As an acting camp student, you will:
- Demonstrate fundamental acting and performance skills
- Develop your physical presence and awareness
- Strengthen your vocal instrument
- Discover a reliable and consistent acting technique
- Bring your character to life in a fully staged production
Program Highlights
Performance Opportunities
The summer program ends with a multi-performance run of a fully staged play with full design and technical support throughout.
Recreational Activities
This might be an arts camp, but it's still camp! In addition to theatre rehearsals, you'll have the chance to explore the woods and swim, play field games, and learn cool skills like archery.
Recent Productions
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Winter's Tale
- Sparrow
- Anon(ymous)
- Our Town
- The Snow
- Julius Caesar
- Radium Girls
Additional Opportunities
Interlochen also offers an Acting program. If you're interested in scenery, costumes, lighting, or stage management, you can apply for the Theatre Design & Production program.
Interlochen is home to the Arts Academy boarding high school, which offers theatre programs in Acting, Musical Theatre, and Theatre Design & Production for grades 9-12, as well as a post-graduate year.
Guest Artists
Each summer, the theatre department welcomes guests artists and educators to our campus. Past guests of the department have included:
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Barrett Foa, NCIS:LA, Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Mamma Mia!
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Lothair Eaton, singer, actor, vocal coach
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Kooman & Dimond, Emmy-nominated songwriters
The campus is beautiful, and all the teachers and staff are so nice. I instantly connected with lots of other campers. Here, I don't feel like I have to hide myself. I am no longer shy to express myself. And the classes are amazing! The theatre program is phenomenal; no other place compares. I truly feel like I am making art.
Lilly, Acting Production Company
What's it like to be an Acting Company Production student?
Hear from intermediate students and faculty about what it's like to be an acting student at Interlochen Arts Camp.
Dive deeper into Interlochen Arts Camp with a free digital viewbook
In our free informational booklet, you'll learn more about:
- Each of our seven arts areas
- Various programs
- Renowned faculty
- A day in the life of a student
- How to apply and financial aid information
- And more