Summer Theater Camps

2025 Summer Offerings

We are elated to be offering so many incredible camps at our NEW location at the professional Colligan Theater at the Tannery Arts Center, off River Street.

In all of our Summer Camps - students will focus on learning proper voice and dance techniques while exploring the various song and dance styles used in Broadway shows, movies, and the music industry.

Our camps include a proper physical warm-up, stretches, isolations, across-the-floor progressions, and combinations. In addition, students learn vocal warm ups and exercises that strengthen projection, instill confidence, and gain control and improve the quality of sound production. Acting skills are also honed with games, and learning performing skills that help the student connect with the audience, be expressive, tell a story, and overcome stage fright.

Most camps are offered as 1-week long (half & full-day), and of course our 3-week long "Performing Arts" production camps, where participants will study daily for 3 weeks to put on a musical theater performance to share with family, friends and the greater Santa Cruz community.

Summer Themed Camps

Camps starting run for 9 weeks, throughout the entire summer. Focusing on all aspects of performing arts from improvisation theater games, advanced character development and broadway intensives to singing, dancing and acting camps.

Lets not forget our training and fabulous themed camps...

Full-day and half day options available for the following ages:

  • 3 to 6 year olds
  • 6 to 10 year olds
  • 10 to 13 year olds
  • 13 to 16 year olds
  • Advanced Teens (16-18 year olds)
AAT Summer Camp

Performing Arts Production Camps (3-weeks each)

Three incredible opportunities for young performers to acquire more skills, practice auditioning and to hone all those skills. With a longer duration to put them into practice, this collaboration and supportive program truly enriches everyone who walks through our doors.

Culminating in a weekend of performances for the public. This summer we will be performing on the incredible Colligan Theater stage, located at 1010 River Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.

Enabling our community to cherish live theater year-round.

 

  • Between the Lines Jr. (10 to 13 year olds) - starts June 2nd, 2025
  • 42nd Street  (13 to 16 year olds) - starts June 243rd, 2025
  • Dare to Dream Jr.  (6 to 10 year olds) - starts July 14th, 2025

 

Our "Performing Arts Production Camps"  are now located in our NEW LOCATION at the Colligan Theater at the Tannery Arts Center on River Street in Santa Cruz.

We will provide activities both inside and outside. When outside, we will provide shade structures, ensure participants apply sunscreen and encourage them to wear sun hats.

This will be our 1st summer at the amazing Colligan Theater - we hope to see you there!

Lindsey Chester and the Colligan Theater