Summer Classic 
Directed by Rebecca Waxman

Ages 13-19
3 Weeks: Mon - Fri, 9am-4pm
Rehearsals June 22 - July 10
4 Performances: Thur 7/9 at 7pm, Fri 7/10 7pm, Sat 7/11 2pm & 7pm

This program offers a more intensive and rigorous theatre experience for our senior company students. This is a three-week immersion program exploring a literary classic. Participants ages 13-19 are given the support they need to develop their skill with language, voice, and physical story-telling as they rehearse a fully produced play. This is a challenging and fun experience under the guidance of professional practitioners.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$850 

$800 use coupon code CLASSIC800

$750 use coupon code CLASSIC750

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Drag Camp
With Kelindah Bee

Ages 10-15
2 Weeks: Mon - Fri 9-3:30
July 6 - July 17

2 Performances: Friday 7/17 at 7pm and Saturday 7/18 at 7pm

In this camp we will each devise a character from the inside out, allowing for discovery about who we are and what stories we want to tell. Drag is another tool to add to the toolbox every versatile performer needs. When getting the chance to play with gender, it’s possible to learn about the stereotypes that exist and how we can blend and blur the lines to create work that is both entertaining and powerful.

In this program you will:

Create a character

Develop a concept for an act

Create a costume and makeup for your character/act

Stage the concept

Incorporate lighting and sound, props and other set elements

Collaborate with other performers to clarify each story

Learn about building a show arc

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$675

$625 use coupon code DRAG625

$575 use coupon code DRAG575

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

BYV 1
Brave Young Vaudevillians

Ages 6-8
2 weeks: Mon - Fri, 9-3:30
July 13 - July 24

Looking for a summer program that is fun, educational, and exciting while also incorporating outdoor activities, unstructured play, and theatre arts training? This is the one! We’ll play our way through the summer - singing, dancing, acting, dressing up and frolicking. Includes a family sharing on the final day.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$675

$625 use coupon code BYV1-625

$575 use coupon code BYV1-575

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Costume Camp
With Monika Grist Weiner

Ages 10-15
2 Weeks: July 13 - July 24 
3 performances: Friday, 7/24 at 7pm, Saturday 7/25 at 2pm and 7pm

This summer, campers will learn how a production is costumed. Learn about and experience the entire process: reading the script, pulling costumes, fittings and alterations, and crewing the performances! This camp will run concurrently with Melodrama and campers will be guided by Monika Grist Weiner as they learn about and costume a real production.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$675 

$625 use coupon code COSTUME625

$575 use coupon code COSTUME575

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Melodrama Camp
Directed by Amy Majer and Hayden Bunker

Ages 9-13
2 Weeks: July 13 - July 24
Monday - Friday 9am-3:30pm
Plus Saturday, July 25

3 Performances: Friday, 7/24 at 7pm, Sat 7/25 at 2pm & 7pm

NEYT’s most popular summer program brings the merriment and madness! 

Playing heroes, villains, and fools, participants learn character development by making big, bold, loud, silly choices. Colorful costumes, shaving cream fights, and slapstick comedy are melodrama’s stock-in-trade. Through theater games, improv exercises, and clowning, students develop the vocal and physical skills to pull off the over-the-top action and comedic timing. Student-driven ideas are encouraged, and directors strive to incorporate them into the production. At the end of two weeks, students perform before enthusiastic audience members, who cheer on the actors in the boisterous, interactive tradition of melodrama.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$675

$625 use coupon code MELO625

$575 use coupon code MELO575

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Introduction to Run Crew Camp - Melodrama

Introduction to Run crew camp is for those who love to move things, push buttons when requested, and overall support the actors on stage in live performance. Possible positions include light board operator, sound board operator, and backstage run crew. As this is an introduction, participants will learn everything they need to know about their backstage jobs to be successful supporters of the performance during the course of this camp.

Monday-Friday 7/20-7/24 9a-12p

Friday-Saturday 7/24 6p call for the 7pm show, 7/25 1pm call for the 2pm show, 6pm call for the 7pm show

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$250

$225 use coupon code RCMELO225

$200 use coupon code RCMELO200

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Summer Musical
Director Gavy Kessler 

Ages 13-19
3 Weeks

Rehearsals July 20 - August 7, week days 9am-4pm
6 Performances: Fri 8/7 7pm, Sat 8/8 2pm & 7pm, Fri 8/14 7pm, Sat 8/15 2pm & 7pm

Casting Workshop Date: TBD (everyone who registers receives a role)

This program offers a more intensive and rigorous musical theatre experience for our senior company students. This summer, participants will learn, rehearsal, and perform a complete musical, with the support needed to develop vocal, dance, and acting skills. Students of all abilities are welcome. Everyone who registers receives a role. You must register for the camp in order to attend the casting workshop.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$850 

$800 use coupon code MTI800

$750 use coupon code MTI750

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Adult Playwriting Workshop
With Abigail Drach

August 1-2, 2026

Schedule: 10:00 AM-4:30 PM Two 3-hour sessions each day with a 30-min lunch break. (6.5 hours each day or 13 hours total)

Max enrollment: 8 people (if we go over the max, I’d be happy to add dates for a second workshop)

Is there anything more mysterious than a play? How does an idea in someone's head become words on a page and then transform into life embodied on a stage that moves its audience to cry and to laugh and to rage and to think?

In this weekend workshop, we will explore just that. Everyone is welcome—whether you are a novice or experienced, whether you have an idea you've been dying to explore or you don't know where to start. We will cover the basics of formatting, setting the stage, narrative structure, characterization, and dialogue by drawing on examples from the canon such as: Lorraine Hansberry, Thorton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tony Kushner.

Participants will have ample time to develop, write, and workshop a scene from anywhere in their play. They are also welcome to bring a project already in development to work on and share. Everyone will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the workshop leader and from the other participants. By the end of the weekend, each participant will have a fleshed-out concept for a play and several pages of a draft to continue writing if they so desire and a strong sense of how to develop ideas into a script in the future. Last year's participants are more than welcome to join—the syllabus will be revamped with new examples and exercises.

Abigail Drach is a NYC-based writer, scholar, and lifelong theater-lover. She has worked as an actor, theater educator, and high school English teacher in addition to organizing an international conference for women playwrights and writing/staging several plays of her own. She earned her BA in Theater and Gender studies from McGill University, her MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and she is now pursuing PhD in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. You can find her work in the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Journal (Winter 2022), The Mixtape Project (February 2025), and Doubly Mad Journal (April 2025).

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$200

$175 use coupon code WRITE175

$150 use coupon code WRITE150

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

BYV 2
Brave Young Vaudevillians

Ages 6-8
2 weeks: Mon - Fri, 9-3:30
August 3 - August 14

Looking for a summer program that is fun, educational, and exciting while also incorporating outdoor activities, unstructured play, and theatre arts training? This is the one! We’ll play our way through the summer - singing, dancing, acting, dressing up and frolicking. Includes a family-sharing on the final day.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$675

$625 use coupon code BYV2-625

$575 use coupon code BYV2-575

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Intermediate/Advanced Run Crew Camp - Summer Musical

Level up your tech abilities in this intermediate/advanced run crew camp. Participants will learn additional skills relating to their assigned backstage jobs as well as be able to learn about other jobs simultaneously. Participants are expected to have previous run crew experience.

Monday-Thursday 8/3-8/7 9a-4p

Friday 8/7 5:30p Call, 7p Show

Saturday 8/8 12:30p Call, 2p Show, 5:30p Call, 7p Show

Friday 8/14 5:30p Call, 7p Show

Saturday 8/15 12:30p Call, 2p Show, 5:30p Call, 7p Show + strike

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$500

$450 use coupon code RCMUSICAL450

$400 use coupon code RCMUSICAL400

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Summer Shakespeare Camp
With Shannon Ward

Ages 9-13
1 Week: August 3 - August 7
Monday - Friday 9am-3:30pm

Friends & Family Share: Friday, 8/7 from 3:30-4:30pm

Enter the world of The Bard, history’s most famous playwright! Join NEYT Education Director Shannon Ward on an Elizabethan romp through Shakespeare’s juiciest scenes and monologues. Defy the stars for your beloved! Backstab your cousin for the crown! Finally learn the difference between “thee” and “thou!” Full of high drama and lowbrow comedy, this camp is perfect for both newcomers and experienced Shakespearean actors.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$400

$350 use coupon code BARD350

$300 use coupon code BARD300

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

Clown Camp
Directed by Dory Hamm

Ages 9-13
2 weeks: Mon - Fri, 9-3:30pm
August 10 - August 21

3 Performances: Fri 8/21 at 7pm and Sat 8/22 at 2pm & 7pm

Enjoy two wild and wonderful weeks exploring clowning and physical comedy! Tailored to the unique talents and interests of the students, this program develops original clowning ‘bits,’ which are worked up into short performable scenes. Come play in the clown zone!

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$675

$625 use coupon code CLOWN625

$575 use coupon code CLOWN575

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org

The Family Vacation
Commedia Camp and Tour

Written & Directed by Rosa Palmeri
Assistant Directed by Shannon Ward

• For actors ages 13 - 19

• 2 weeks of rehearsals Aug 10 - Aug 21, 9am - 4pm

• 3 Performances at end of camp, Aug 21 at 7pm, Aug 22 at 2pm and 7pm

• Show tours area schools in September/October (4 - 6 performances)

Family Vacaton
The Duchess of Navarre decides it's time that the family take a trip to the seaside; everyone else is doing it, why shouldn't they? Unfortunately, the tides take a turn for the worst, and they have to battle not only sunburns, sand, and squid, but also...each other.

This original commedia-style play will delight actors and audiences with heightened language, physical hijinks, and stage magic.

Commedia dell'arte is an early theatrical form, originating in 15th century Italy, that still influences comedy today. Actors would play stock characters such as foolish old men, devious servants, starry-eyed young lovers, or falsely heroic soldiers and then improvise around a basic plot. Our version will be updated for modern audiences; we’ll use larger than life costumes and physicality to convey the hilariously dramatic inner lives of these roles, and base our script on a classic text written by a playwright like Moliere or Pirandello who favored elevated language mixed with sensational comedic shenanigans.

Together we will build "lazzi", or physical, comedic routines, to be woven through a highly rhythmic, fast-paced, half-hour script. Each part will be tailored to stretch the actor's comedic skills and help them to command the stage in a whole new way. Think dancing, music, chase scenes, dramatic deaths, and more!

After opening at NEYT, we will tour the play to local schools in the fall.

Sliding Scale Pricing

If you are able to pay at the middle or higher rate, the difference goes directly towards financial aid and helping other families access NEYT programming.

$700 

$650 use coupon code TOUR650

$600 use coupon code TOUR600

To apply for financial aid use coupon code ANGELS to register for $25 and fill out the application.

For payment plans contact Michelle Meima at support@neyt.org