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 base middle school aged students. Using curriculum developed by Ensemble Theatre, we successfully completed our 8th camp in the summer of 2024, which culminated in a live performance in the Sanctuary of Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights! 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. Each 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 all across Cuyahoga County!
The dates for this coming summer’s camp are July 14th to July 25th!
with a final performance on Friday July 25th, 2025 at 7pm.
This years camp will take place in the Marinello Little Theatre on the campus of
John Carroll University in University Heights! :: 1 John Carroll Blvd :: University Heights, OH 44118
The deadline to apply for this year’s camp (2025) is June 13th.
MEET OUR 2025 INSTRUCTORS!
Jimmie Woody (Film Instructor) received his M.F.A. in acting from Columbia University. He was a 2019-2020 Cleveland Public Theatre ‘Premiere Fellow’, a 2012 Creative Workforce Fellow in theater, recently a Film teacher at the Cleveland High School for Digital Art and an acting instructor of Acting for the Camera at Tri-C. Some of Jimmie’s most recent directorial credits include: 'Showin Up Black' (Cleveland Public Theatre), Jitney by August Wilson (Beck Center); Election Day by Lee Chilcote (BorderLight Festival); Brownsville Song/B-Side for Tray (Dobama Theatre); Art of Longing by Lisa Langford (Cleveland Public Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, and Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Weathervane Playhouse); Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky and The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks (University of Akron); The Split Show, How Blood Go, and The Bomb by Lisa Langford (Tri-C, Convergence Continuum & Cleveland Public Theatre); Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, For Colored Girls… by Ntozake Shange, Jitney, Two Trains Running, Gem of the Ocean & Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (Tri-C Metro). He most recently played Preston Walker in Nicole Salter’s Breakout Session/Frogorse’ at Cleveland Pblic Theatre, Brucie in Lynn Nottage’s ‘Sweat’ at Cleveland Playhouse and he performed a workshop production of his one-man show Tale of a Geminirising at Cleveland Public Theatre. He served as ETPAC’s film instructor in 2023 and is excited to return!
Cassidy Thomas (Theatre Instructor) With a script in one hand and a lesson plan in the other, Casidy brings the perfect mix of stage magic and classroom sparkle to camp! A seasoned performer, playwright, and educator, she’s passionate about helping young actors find their voice—whether they’re belting showtunes or writing their own scene-stealers. Get ready to break a leg—but don’t worry, she’s got plenty of band-aids (and puns) just in case! She is a recent graduate of Notre Dame College with a degree in Education.
MEET OUR PROFESSIONAL DROP IN ARTISTS FOR 2024!
Lisa Langford (Playwriting/Storytelling Drop-In) Bio Coming Soon!
TBA (Professional Actor Drop-In) Announcement coming shortly!
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.
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.
