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Deadline for payment and a completed health profile: Sunday, March 2
Groundlings Shakespeare Spring Break Camp
Grades: 6 - 12
Dates: Spring Break, March 10-14
Meeting Times: Monday - Friday, 10 am - 4 pm
Location: Gruening 208, UAF Campus
Cost: $350
Description: Spend your spring break playing drama games and learning stage combat, stagecraft, and stage makeup. There will be acting lessons, scene study, and sonnet exploration. Campers will develop public speaking skills, stage presence, and self-confidence. The camp will culminate in a short presentation of Shakespearean Scenes and fight choreography.
Email summer@alaska.edu if you have questions about this camp.
Instructor: Carey Seward
A bit about your instructor: Carey Seward is a playwright and musician in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has worked with the Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre as a company member over the last 20 years, most recently as Director of the summer mainstage A Midsummer Night's Dream (2022) and Music Director for Macbeth (2019). As a teaching artist, Seward works as an Artist in the Schools (2004-2023), teaching drama, playwriting, and Shakespeare.
Instructor: Jivan Gordon-Wolfe
A bit about your instructor: Jivan Gordon-Wolfe is active in our local theater community, having appeared in productions with FLOT, FDA, and FST. He has also worked as an assistant teacher in summer camps with both FST and FDA. When not performing in a production, he spends his time training and teaching martial arts, where he has achieved the rank of 4th Degree Black Belt in TKD. He also works on and assists with training actors in the art and skill of stage fighting.