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Performing arts & digital media summer programs for college-bound and pre-professional students

Texas Christian University
Theater

Dates	July 8 - July 13, 2012
Grades	9 - College Freshman
Tuition	$995
Audition	No Audition Required

	Tuition includes room & meals Grade entering in Fall 2012

Program Director: Harry Parker
Faculty: Eileen Woods
Faculty: Thomas Walsh

Acting for the Stage Details

This summer acting camp offers students professional training in Theater. The week's activities involve intensive training in the craft of acting through theater game techniques and improvisation. The workshops are designed to incite the creative imagination of each participant.

Each day students will explore external performance techniques in comedy, improvisation, character analysis, rhythm and timing, movement, and stage combat.

** Check-In and Travel Information

Students check in on Sunday. The workshop concludes with a "work in progress" showing on Friday. Students check-in between 1 - 2:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Dallas/Ft Worth(DFW) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 12pm.
Flights should depart from Dallas/Ft Worth(DFW) on the last day of camp after 6pm.
Transportation is available to and from Dallas/Ft Worth(DFW) for $30 EACH WAY.
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Directors and Faculty

Harry Parker

Program Director

Dr. Harry B. Parker is the Chair of the Department of Theatre at Texas Christian University, and the Managing Director of the Trinity Shakespeare Festival at TCU. A native of Oklahoma City, Harry received a B.F.A. (magna cum laude) in Theatre from TCU, and from the University of Kansas in Lawrence he earned an M.A. in Theatre (Acting/Directing), and a Ph.D. in Theatre and Film. He has also served on the faculty of Westmar College in Iowa, and spent eleven years as the Director of Theatre at Emporia State University in Kansas. For seven summers Harry worked professionally as the Assistant Artistic Director at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, where he assisted in staging over 30 major musicals. He has directed more than 80 professional, community and academic theatre productions across the country including Emporia State University's production of The Car, which performed at the 1997 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Regional Festival. Harry has directed professionally at the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.); Stages Repertory Theatre (Houston); American Heartland Theatre (Kansas City); and Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City). In Fort Worth, he has directed professionally for Amphibian Stage Productions and Jubilee Theatre, as well as having directed 7 shows for Circle Theatre. His directing credits include Holiday, Antigone, South Pacific, The Importance of Being Earnest, Extremities, Godspell, The Miser, Charley's Aunt, The Philadelphia Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Will Rogers Follies, The Comedy of Errors, Marvin's Room , The King and I, The Matchmaker, The Laramie Project and The Taming of the Shrew. He has served on the TCU faculty since 2003.

Thomas Walsh

Faculty

Thomas J. Walsh earned a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting and a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin. His work as a playwright and director has been recognized for excellence by the Texas Educational Theatre Association (TETA); the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE); the Southwest Theatre Association (SWTA) and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). He has been nominated for the "Most Inspiring Professor" Award by the TCU Panhellenic Council. Dr. Walsh's work was recently honored with a Best Director award by the Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum for his production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses at Dallas' Theatre Three, a professional Equity theatre, and for Twelfth Night at the Trinity Shakespeare Festival. At TCU, Dr. Walsh has directed Ah, Wilderness!, The Glass Menagerie, Our Town, Misalliance and Urinetown, among others. He is the Artistic Director for the professional Trinity Shakespeare Festival at TCU.

Eileen Woods

Workshop Head

Eileen Woods began her career as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette and has appeared in numerous television shows, such as Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show and Good Morning America. Her film credits include A Day in Black and White, Sex and Dying, Muffy and Melvin and the Four Eyed Monsters. Onstage she has been seen in such shows as Gigi, Clearing the Air and Funny Girl.

Location Information

Originally founded in 1873 in Thorp Spring, Texas, TCU was relocated to its present day 275-acre campus five miles from dowtown Fort Worth in 1910. TCU is host to the Trinity Shakespeare Festival, PianoTexas International Academy,and the Scheiffer Symoposium in Journalism. TCU's distinguished College of Fine Arts, home to the Departments of Design, Merchandising and Textiles and Theatre, School of Art, School for Classical & Contemporary Dance and School of Music offers a wide range of academic disciplines for students.The TCU campus provides excellent facilities to house our summer programs in Theater, Musical Theater, and Design.

_{*Tuition does not include one-time registration fee($150), weekend stays, or airport transportation.}

If you have questions or need help registering, please call 888-497-3553

Dates, Directors, and Faculty subject to change without notice. The faculty is comprised of college professors representing their schools and professional industry artists. Images are of USPA programs, but may not represent actual program or location. Photos by Tito Deverya (UCLA TFT), Lauren di Matteo, and Chris Vanderhorst.

** USPA highly recommends that students secure travel insurance to cover trip cancellation, interruption, and/or medical emergency.
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