Theater Arts

Summer Theater: Teen Company, Ages 13-18

"Playing Shakespeare"
Two-week daily program, Monday-Friday: July 7 to July 18
1pm to 4pm
Hubbard Hall Mainstage
Cost: $240 / $225 members
Scholarships and internships available, application deadline July 1.
David Andrew Snider, Teen Company Director
Showcase: Friday, July 18 at 3pm, Hubbard Hall Mainstage

During this two-week intensive, participants will learn how to crack open the world of William Shakespeare while creating vibrant characters on stage for themselves and their audiences. Through a fun, collaborative process including theater games, text work, voice and speech and movement, participants will deepen their understanding of Shakespeare's world and work, culminating in a free showcase sharing of their work on the final day of the course.  

About the Instructor: David Andrew Snider has directed and performed Shakespeare at theaters in England and throughout the U.S. for over twenty years, having worked extensively Off-Broadway with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Jean Cocteau Repertory and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, England and the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) in Washington, DC.  He was on the full-time faculty of Shakespeare Theatre Company 2001-2004 and ran both Camp Shakespeare and Text Alive!, training thousands of youth and adult learners in Shakespeare's text, movement, acting, stage combat, mask work and commedia dell'arte.  He is an Adjunct Professor in the Performing Arts Department at American University in Washington, DC and the new Executive Director of Hubbard Hall.