OVERTURES: The Signature Theatre Musical Theatre Institute
With
Eric Schaeffer
Artistic Director of Signature Theatre and the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration
July 5-17, 2004
Twenty students will be accepted to participate in this two-week intensive performance program lead by Mr. Schaeffer and Karma Camp, his frequent choreographic collaborator with Jay Crowder, one of Washington DC’s outstanding musical directors coordinating the vocal training. Special Guest Artists last summer included Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line),James Barbour (Jane Eyre and Urinetown) and David Covington (Tap Dogs)
The Institute will meet Monday thru Saturday 9am-9pm. Each day, participants will take classes in ballet, jazz, vocal performance scene study and monologue work. Evenings will consist of rehearsals for an end of session performance to be held in the Kennedy Center Theatre Lab.
Daily Schedule:
9 am Ballet/Warm-up
11am Jazz
12:30 Lunch
2pm Scene Study/Monologue work
3:30 Vocal Training
5pm Dinner
6:30 Rehearsal
9pm End
Tuition:
$900 for students or faculty from KCACTF participating institutions
$800 for students receiving professional development or scholarship assistance from their home institution.
Housing:
Available in easy walking distance to the Kennedy Center in the George Washington University Residence Halls (shared accommodation). The cost is $40 per night or $560 for the period of the Institute.
To Apply:
An on-site audition will be held later in the Spring at the Kennedy Center.
Students may also apply by submitting:
-a letter of intent describing your interest in participating in the Institute
-a headshot
-a resume with detailed training and performance experience
-a videotape showing a movement or dance combination, and
-the student singing at least 16 bars each of two contrasting songs
by Friday, April 2, 2004
to
KCACTF/OVERTURES
The Kennedy Center
PO Box 10808
Arlington, VA 22210
Eric Schaeffer is the artistic director of Signature Theatre, and recently served as the Artistic Director for the Sondheim Celebration at The Kennedy Center where he directed Passion and Sunday in the Park with George as well as the Sondheim Concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. He is currently directing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for Disneyland. Signature Theatre : Co-founder, Director: Allegro , Follies , Twentieth Century , 110 in the Shade , Christmas Carol Rag , Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Gospel According to Fishman, Grand Hotel, Putting It Together, Company (Lubber Run Amphitheatre), The Rhythm Club, Over & Over, You¹re Going to Love Tomorrow A Stephen Sondheim Evening, The Fix (American premiere), Working; The Rink, Taking My Life in Your Hands, Cabaret, First Lady Suite, Wings, Poor Superman, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love , and the Sondheim musicals Sunday in the Park with George (Arena Stage co-production), Passion (1997 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical), Into the Woods (1995 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical), Company, Assassins (1993 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical), and Sweeney Todd (1992 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical). New York/Broadway : Putting It Together, big (First National Tour), Sweet Adeline , City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert. London : The Witches of Eastwick , Theatre Royal Drury Lane & Prince of Wales Regional : Putting It Together with Carol Burnett - Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; Elmer Gantry - Marriott Lincolnshire Theater, Chicago; Signature Sings Sondheim , Kennedy Center Terrace Theatre. Honors : Three Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Direction ( Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Passion ) along with eight additional nominations; The Elizabeth Campbell Award for Arts in Arlington; The Arlington School Board Honored Citizen Award, and The Professional Mentor Prize from Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Eric holds a BFA from Kutztown University and has done extended studies at Crewe and Alsager College of Visual Arts, Crewe England.
Karma Camp Recent choreography credits include The Graduate on Broadway with Kathleen Turner and Merrily We Roll Along at the Kennedy Center. She choreographed the first national tour of the Broadway musical big , and off-Broadway's Never The Sinner (four Obie nominations, Drama Desk Award for Best New Play). She has twice been nominated for the Helen Hayes Award for her work at Signature Theatre, which includes Cabaret and Nijinsky's Last Dance . An artistic associate at Signature, she has collaborated with Eric Schaeffer on more than ten productions, including The Rink , Working , the world premiere of The Gospel According to Fishman , and the current 110 in the Shade . Other credits include more than fifteen productions with The Shakespeare Theatre, including Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing and Volpone . She has enjoyed an eight year relationship with Actors Theatre of Louisville where she frequently directs and choreographs, and where she co-created A Bird in a Gilded Cage with former artistic director Jon Jory. Following the September 11 th attacks, Camp directed and choreographed Remember The Children , featuring Kathie Lee Gifford, at the Lincoln Memorial. Opera credits include Goya with Placido Domingo, Vanessa for the Washington Opera and Kurt Weill's Street Scene with the Wolftrap Opera Company. For PBS she choreographed The Sounds of World War II . Other television credits include ABC's All My Children and a wide variety of commercials. Camp has served on the faculty at George Mason University, choreographed for The Juilliard School and lectured for the Smithsonian Artists Series. She enjoys an ongoing relationship with Duke University, where she directs and choreographs
Questions?
Contact
Gregg Henry
ghenry@kennedy-center.org
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts