July 2021 Cain Park Performance in the EVANS AMPHITHEATRE
Ensemble Theatre’s Performing Arts Camp is a FREE performing arts summer camp opportunity for Cuyahoga County based elementary and middle school aged students. Using curriculum developed by Ensemble Theatre, we successfully completed our 7th camp in July of 2023, which culminated in a live performance in the Performing Arts Center on the campus of Notre Dame College in South Euclid! This camp, led by Ensemble Theatre, offers a no barriers yearly summer opportunity and access to a rich performing arts experience, to youth from schools within Cuyahoga County. This year’s camp includes these focus areas: Theatre, Film, & Voice Overs!
Ensemble Theatre is dedicated to the responsible production of works that celebrate the human spirit, committed to non-traditional casting and providing culturally diverse programming that speaks to issues of contemporary life. Heights Performing Arts Camp was created by Ensemble Theatre in 2017 through a partnership with Building Heights, a group of Cleveland Hts.-University Hts School District parents, dedicated to facilitating a safe, inclusive, community-focused environment through outreach and programming. Ensemble Theatre expanded our program in the summer of 2022, to include students from schools across Cuyahoga County!
The dates for this coming summer’s camp are June 17th to June 28th!
with a final performance on Saturday June 29th at 2pm.
MEET OUR 2024 INSTRUCTORS!
Ariana Starkman (Instructor/Theatre Coordinator) (she/her) is excited to return to teaching theatre. She has a BA in Theatre and Social Change from UPitt, and spent significant amounts of time studying acting in Arezzo, Moscow, and London. She is trained in ten stage combat weapons, is a Consent-Forward Artist with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and is Program Manager for a Cleveland non-profit organization focused on somatics. Ariana has taught ages 4 to 85 and can’t wait to giggle and learn all together.
Stay Tuned for more information on our Film Coordinator/Instructor!
MEET OUR PROFESSIONAL DROP IN ARTISTS FOR 2024!
Nina Domingue (Playwriting Drop-In) is a Black New Orleans artist currently based in Cleveland. She is a griot, cultural memory worker, actor, director, and playwright, who currently serves as the Artistic Associate of Karamu House. Her most recent work includes The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin at Karamu, STEW at Dobama, writing and directing Red Summer at Karamu House. She was a part of Cleveland Public Theater’s Premier Fellowship Cohort for the 2020-2021 season. Her solo show The Absolutely Amazing and True Adventures of Miss Joan Southgate has been included on The Kilroy’s List 2020. She was a Barbara Smith Playwright in Residence at Twelve Literary Arts and the Nord Family Foundation Playwriting Fellow and Catapult Artist at Cleveland Public Theatre during the 2019-2020 theatrical season. Her solo show Ya Mama! (dir: Nathan Henry) launched its tour at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and a run at Cleveland Public Theatre this past fall.
Stay tuned for additional artists who will be joining us!!
It is our intention to always keep our Summer Performing Arts Camp FREE for the campers!
If you are able, please consider a donation to help support this amazing program!
Ensemble Theatre is a 501(c)3. All donations are tax deductible to the fully extent of the law.
Please include “ETPAC” in the notes of your online donation, or in the memo line of a check!
2017 Heights Performing Arts Camp Inaugural Year! Alma Theatre Performance Camp Photo.
Our Past & Current Supporters, Community Partners, and Sponsors!
Notre Dame College Performing Arts, The Henry K. & Emma R. Fox Family Foundation,
The Ohio Arts Council, John & Barbara Schubert, Mark D. Andeson & Fey Parrill,
Tom& Kirsten Hagesfeld, Open Doors Academy, James P. & Loretta Ho Sherblom,
Mark S. & Kristin Gallagher, Lillian Anderson, Shari Wolf & Michael Axel, Victoria Parrill.
We look forward to working with the residential and commercial communities to continue support for this and future summer camps through donations and sponsorship, keeping this camp FREE for the students. We greatly appreciate your consideration of our request and your expressed enthusiasm for this endeavor.
Questions please contact:
Celeste Cosentino, Executive Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre.
pac@ensemble-theatre.org | 216-321-2930 (Ensemble Office).
Images below are from our Inaugural Camp's Final Performance (2017 ) in the Alma Theatre at Cain Park. Images by Gabe Shaeffer.
