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| Run Crew - Drag | 9am-12pm | 2 | | Run Crew - Drag
Ages 12-19
6 days: July 14 - July 19
Mon - Thur, 9am-12pm
Fri, 9am-12pm and 6pm call, 7pm show
Sat, 9am-12pm and 6pm call, 7pm show
Run crew camps are for those who love to move things, push buttons when requested, and overall support the actors on stage in a live performance. Possible positions include light board operator, sound engineer, microphone technician, backstage run crew, and followspot operator.
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 RCDRAG225
$200 use coupon code RCDRAG200
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
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 | Musical Theatre Intensive CHICAGO | M-F 9am-4pm | 24 | Sold out | Musical Theater Intensive
Director Gavy Kessler and Musical Director Graham Christian
Ages 13-19
3.5 Weeks
Rehearsals July 17 - August 8, week days 9am-4pm
6 Performances: Fri 8/8 7pm, Sat 8/9 2pm & 7pm, Fri 8/15 7pm, Sat 8/16 2pm & 7pm
Casting Workshop: 5/7 4-6pm or 5/10 10-12pm (everyone who registers receives a role.
Audition Materials Here
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.
CHICAGO: TEEN EDITION
Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Music by John Kander - Lyrics by Fred Ebb - Based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins - Script adaptation by David Thompson
It's the 1920s in the Windy City, and two would-be jazz starlets Velma and Roxie vie for fame, fortune and notoriety-- all while on trial for killing their husbands. Can legendary lawyer Billy Flynn keep these "merry murderesses" out of the hangman's noose by controlling the narrative around their crimes?
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
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| Musical Theater Skills | M-F 9am-3:30pm | 14 | Sold out | Musical Theater Skills
With Nick Bombicino
Ages 10-14
2 Weeks: Mon-Fri, 9-3:30
July 21 - August 1
Do you want to build your musical theater skills? In this camp we’ll explore the basic techniques in musical theatre training: singing, dancing, acting, and putting it all together, including duets! Audition technique, acting the song, and creating compelling characters that move smoothly from scene to song will all be explored through songs, dances, and scenes. All experience levels are welcome, as the camp will be tailored to each student’s level of training and experience. We’ll end with a Family Sharing, giving campers a chance to show off what they’ve learned. Join us!
Recommended for campers with a true interest in musical theater and a desire to level up their skills.
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 SKILLS625
$575 use coupon code SKILLS575
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
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| Tech Camp - Musical Theater Build | 10am-4pm | 4 | | Tech Camp - Musical Theater Build
Ages 12-19
1 Week: Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm
July 21 - July 25
This camp will include working on lighting, sound, and scenic elements for the musical CHICAGO. Students will be asked to use power tools, hand tools, paint tools, carry possibly heavy things, work collaboratively, have keen listening skills, pay strong attention to details, and be ready to have fun and get messy!
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.
$315
$290 use coupon code TECHMTI290
$265 use coupon code TECHMTI265
Email managingdirector@neyt for a 50% discount code for Musical Theater Crew!
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
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| BYV 2 | M-F 9am-3:30pm | 9 | Sold out | BYV 2
Brave Young Vaudevillians
With Kristina Meima
Ages 6-8
2 weeks: Mon - Fri, 9-3:30
July 28 - August 8
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 performance on the final day for families and loved ones.
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
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| Adult Playwriting Workshop | 10am-4:30pm | 8 | | Adult Playwriting Workshop
With Abigail Drach
August 2&3, 2025
10am-4:30pm (with a 30 min break)
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 also have ample time to develop, write, and workshop a scene from anywhere in their play. 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.
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 starting her PhD in Comparative Literature at Rutgers University in the fall. 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 into our financial aid fund and helps other families access NEYT programming.
$200
$150 with coupon code WRITE150
$100 with coupon code WRITE100
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
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| Improv | M-F 9am-12:00pm | 12 | Sold out | Improv
With Jane Baker
Ages 8-19
1 Week, Mon-Fri, 9-12
August 4 - August 8
Spend 5 half days exploring skills that will serve you your whole life, in or out of the theater: thinking on your feet, working collaboratively, keeping focus, and having fun! The best part is that in the learning of these things we also have a great time! We will explore traditional theater games as well as short form, long form, and structured improvisations. Come play!
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 IMPROV175
$150 use coupon code IMPROV150
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
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| Run Crew - Musical Theater | 9am-4pm | 7 | | Run Crew - Musical Theater Intensive
Ages 12-19
8 days: Aug 4 - Aug 16 (see below)
Mon - Thur 8/4-8/7, 9am-4pm
Fri 8/8, 9am-4pm and 5:30pm call, 7pm show
Sat 8/9, 12:30pm call, 2pm show and 5:30pm call, 7pm show
Fri 8/15, 5:30pm call, 7pm show
Sat 8/16, 12:30pm call, 2pm show and 5:30pm call, 7pm show, plus strike
Run crew camps are for those who love to move things, push buttons when requested, and overall support the actors on stage in a live performance. Possible positions include light board operator, sound engineer, microphone technician, backstage run crew, and followspot operator.
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
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| Clown Camp | M-F 9-3:30pm | 14 | Sold out | Clown Camp
Directed by Dory Hamm
Ages 9-13
2 weeks: Mon - Fri, 9-3:30pm
August 11 - August 22
2 Performances: Fri 8/22 5pm and Sat 8/23 5pm
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
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| Commedia Tour | Mon-Fri 9-4 | 10 | | COMMEDIA ‘TOUR DE FORCE’
Written by Rosa Palmeri and Directed by Rosa Palmeri & Assistant Directed by Shannon Ward
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For actors ages 13 - 19
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2 weeks of rehearsals Aug 11 - Aug 22, 9am - 4pm
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3 Performances at end of camp, Aug 22 at 7pm, Aug 23 at 2pm and 7pm
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Show tours area schools in September/October (4 - 6 performances)
Commedia is back!
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
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