Camp CENTERSTAGE, designed for students in grades one through 12, uses the performing arts to inspire self-confidence and self-awareness. Participants will experience personal freedom, while practicing trust and creative expression. After two weeks of camp, your child will emerge with enhanced focus, memory, and listening skills. Camp CENTERSTAGE will give structure to talented students' desire to entertain and surprise you.

Camp CENTERSTAGE 2013

Session 1 (students entering grades 1-6)
July 8-19
Monday-Friday, 9 am-4 pm

Session 2 (students entering grades 7-12)
July 22-August 2
Monday-Friday, 9 am-4 pm

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To register, there is a $25 registration fee.

Tuition for Camp CENTERSTAGE is $500. Scholarships for Camp CENTERSTAGE are available.

Many teaching artists have worked with Camp CENTERSTAGE in year's past. Here are the biographies of just some of these brilliant minds:

	Maria Broom may be known as an actress for her recurring roles in HBO’s The Wire and The Corner, but she is also a storyteller and dancer with more than forty years of performance experience. A native Baltimorean, Maria has received many awards and honors including the Eubie Blake Award, the Sarah’s Circle Award, the 2004 Governor’s Arts Award for Individual Artist, and Artist of the Year by Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc in 2007.
	CJay Philip made her Broadway debut in Big: The Musical (based on the Tom Hanks film) and was in the Broadway productions of Street Corner Symphony and Hairspray. CJay is currently the artistic director of Dance & Bmore, a Baltimore based contemporary dance company that serves children by engaging entire families through dance.
	D. Wambui Richardson (Encounter, Young Playwrights Festival resident, Camp CENTERSTAGE) is a former CENTERSTAGE intern now professional artist, directing at every level from academic theater to works off-Broadway. Wambui is currently the artist-in-residence for Coppin State University, and is an alumnus of Dillard University, The New York Film Academy, Brooklyn College and the prestigious Drama League.
	Rosiland M. Cauthen is the Education Coordinator at CENTERSTAGE, where her work supports the student matinee program, the after-school teen ensemble, Encounter, and workshops in local area schools. As Artistic Director of Kuumba Artists, Rosiland has directed at Theatre Project and Creative Alliance. She is a graduate of Towson University's MFA in Theatre program and teaches as an adjunct professor there.
	Kristina Szilagyi is the CENTERSTAGE Community Programs and Education Intern. She is originally from West Virginia and earned a BA in Theatre Studies and Comparative Literature from Wellesley College and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. At Wellesley, she was a member of the Shakespeare Society and a production assistant in the theater department. Locally, she has performed, taught, and written for The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory. She has worked on numerous Boston-based productions, including New Repertory Theater’s educational tour and GAN-e-meed Theatre Project’s inaugural production.
	Dustin Morris, Community Programs and Education Intern, is a native of Baltimore City and graduated with a BA in Theatre from Goucher College. He recently completed an internship with Actors Theatre of Louisville's Education Department, where he taught preshow workshops, playwriting residencies, and directed for the New Voices Young Playwrights festival. He has also worked with Squallis Puppeteers, Louisville's community puppet theatre.

If you have a specific question, please contact education@centerstage.org.

CENTERSTAGE invites Baltimore-area families to join us for M&T Bank presents Kickin’ It with the ’Rents! Parents and kids enjoy a family night to remember, including dinner and a discussion with CENTERSTAGE actors before the show. Members of the Community Programs & Education Department are around to answer questions. Best of all, a Kickin' It evening is only $10 per person—less than the price of a movie ticket!

For information about appropriateness of each play in the season, please visit the Parental Guidelines page.

Tickets for Kickin' It With the 'Rents may only be purchased in person or by calling the Box Office at 410.332.0033. For more information, contact the Education Department at 410.986.4050 or education@centerstage.org.

Beneatha’s Place May 30 at 5:30 pm (show at 7 pm)

Clybourne Park June 6 at 5:30 pm (show at 7 pm)

Joseph & Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds.

Backstage@CENTERSTAGE is our annual open house event.

Backstage@CENTERSTAGE hosts stage combat demonstrations, makeup demonstrations, backstage tours, light and sound demonstrations, the chance to meet CENTERSTAGE actors, and more! 

More information on the next Backstage@CENTERSTAGE will be posted in fall of 2013.

If you have a specific question, please email us at education@centerstage.org.