ETPAC 2025 FINAL VIDEO (Jimmie Woody)
ETPAC 2022 FINAL VIDEO (Jimmie Woody)
Ensemble Theatre’s Performing Arts Camp is a FREE performing arts summer camp for Cuyahoga County base middle school aged students. Using curriculum developed by Ensemble Theatre, we successfully completed our 9th camp in the summer of 2025, which culminated in a live performance in the Marinello Little Theatre on the campus of John Carroll University in University 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 is dedicated to the responsible production of works that celebrate the human spirit, providing culturally diverse programming that speaks to issues of contemporary life that celebrates our amazing and diverse Northeast Ohio communities, and developing new works for the American stage. Heights Performing Arts Camp was created by Ensemble Theatre in 2017 through a partnership with Building Heights, a group of Cleve. Hts.-Univ. Hts. School District parents, dedicated to facilitating a safe, inclusive, community-focused environment through outreach and programming.
Ensemble Theatre expanded this program we created in the summer of 2022, to include students from schools all across Cuyahoga County! We connect our campers with professionals who work in the performing arts industry both locally and nationally, helping to continue to share the importance of the arts and arts education and their value in our communities in a myriad of ways.
The dates for this years summer’s camp will be July 13th-24th, 2026
Final performance on Friday July 24th 2026, Time TBA.
This years camp will take place in the Marinello Little Theatre on the campus of John Carroll University.
1 John Carroll Blvd :: University Heights, OH 44118. Application/Registration link below!
2018 HPAC Final Video (Adam Dew)
HPAC 2019 Final Video (Antonio Harper)
MEET OUR 2026 INSTRUCTORS!
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. This will be her third summer working as a theatre instructor for Ensemble!
Keenan Carosielli (Film Instructor) Keenan is excited to be working with Ensemble as a guest instructor. Last year, Keenan co-produced and directed his first short film, Lemons & Oranges which is currently being edited. The short film was in collaboration with Ensemble Theatre and he’s thankful for all of their support. Some of Keenan’s favorite movies include: Reds (1981), The Incredibles (2004), Magnolia (1999) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
MEET OUR PROFESSIONAL DROP IN ARTISTS FOR 2026!
Stay tuned for more information on our Professional Playwright Drop In!
Laura Rauh (Professional Actor Drop-In) is very happy to be returning to Ensemble to reach out the next generation of theatre and film practitioners, after performing as Tammie Stockman in Enemy of The People: A Rust Belt Adaptation and as Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children last winter. She has also enjoyed time on the Ensemble stage as The Other Woman in The River and Mariya/Mrs. Petrovna in Describe the Night and, almost a decade ago, in All This Intimacy. She has also perfirmed in many wonderful Cleveland and Chicago stage and screen productions, including King Henry VIII, The Maids, No Exit, Independence & Miracle on 34th Street. She has done commercials for Wayfair, Chevy and Nintendo to name a few. Studies include Second City, Cleveland Play House, Steppenwolf Theatre, and a BFA from Ohio University. She is very grateful to Ensemble, her wonderful boys & her husband for support.
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!
A HUGE & HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO OUR 2025 CAMP SUPPORTERS!
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.
