where students experience the value and excitement of the theatre through active participation alongside theatre professionals. Under the direction of LPT’s Associate Director, Kerry Meads, with ensemble actors Jon Lorenz, Season Duffy and Colleen Kollar Smith.

All classes will be held at Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado.

INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOPS
provide an opportunity for children to explore imagination and story in a professional theatre setting. The supportive environment provides exposure to the theatre arts while helping students build confidence in their own ideas and imagination. Through creative dramatics, improvisation and writing, each class will work together as an ensemble to develop and perform their own original script.
Ages: Children who have completed 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
Class is limited to 15 students COST: $175
Two sessions available:
SESSION ONE: June 17-20, Tues.-Fri., 12:30-3:30PM

Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop
This 3-week class is designed to encourage individual and ensemble growth in voice, acting and dance within a professional and supportive environment.
Students will participate in morning workshops of vocal production, dance and scene analysis. In the afternoon, students will work and rehearse alongside members of Lamb’s Players Resident Ensemble to produce a workshop performance of a new musical by Jon Lorenz. Based on Shakespeare’s, "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"— the yet to be titled show, is a rockin’ romance set in Athens High School — complete with music, meddling, and mega-misunderstandings.
COST: $850
Ages: 12-18, Admission by Audition Only (max 20 students)
July 29-August 16 Tuesday-Friday,10AM-3PM
Saturdays, 12-3 PM
Performances: Fri., August 15, 4:00PM
Sat., August 16, 1:00PM
To make an appointment: E-mail Colleen Kollar Smith.

ARTISTIC STAFF

Kerry Meads
Besides Camp Coordinator she wears many hats at LPT as actor, director, and playwright. On staff since 1976, she now serves as an Associate Artistic Director and heads up LPT’s acclaimed Educational Outreach Program. As a performer she has been seen in such productions as The Great Divorce; Quilters; Tartuffe; Godspell; She Loves Me; A Woman of No Importance; You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Till We Have Faces; Pump Boys and Dinettes; Into The Woods; The Secret Garden, Enchanted April and Hello, Dolly! Her directing credits include Private Lives, The Boys Next Door, Amadeus, Beau Jest, The Foreigner and You Can’t Take It With You. As resident playwright, her work includes Boomers, American Rhythm, My Asparagus Is Growing Fine and LPT’s annual Festival of Christmas.

Jon Lorenz
Born and raised in San Diego, Jon Lorenz works as actor, director, playwright, composer, and teacher. He holds a BA in directing from Cal State Fullerton and a minor in music from Chapman University, and is very passionate about music, theatre, storytelling and the impact it has on audiences of all ages. Jon's directing credits include Love's Fire (Cal State Fullerton), Looking Glass Girl (Lyceum Theatre), and 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Annie Get Your Gun, and Bye Bye Birdie for CCT. Jon has composed music and lyrics for numerous musicals produced locally and nationally by Christian Youth Theatre, including Little Women and The Legend of Pocahontas. For Lamb's Players, he contributed several original songs and arrangements for 2007’s Festival of Christmas and An Ideal Husband. His latest musical, Alice, for which he wrote book, music, and lyrics, was selected by Stephen Schwartz to be a part of the 2005 ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop. Jon has worked in educational theatre for the last 16 years and is currently a member of the resident ensemble at Lamb's Players Theatre.

Colleen Kollar Smith
As well as performing in numerous productions, Colleen has choreographed Hello,Dolly!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Pump Boys and Dinettes for Lamb's Players Theatre. Before coming to LPT she earned her BA in Drama from UC Irvine with Honors in Musical Theatre and spent a year with Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Educational Outreach program in Chicago. Colleen is currently a member of the resident ensemble at Lamb's Players Theatre and musical theatre faculty at Coronado School for the Arts.

Season Duffy
Season was born and raised in San Diego and performing has always been her passion. She is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a major in Acting. She has performed locally with Christian Youth Theatre, The San Diego Zoo, Starlight Musical Theatre, Moonlight, The Theatre in Old Town, La Jolla Stage Company, The Old Globe, and of course, Lamb's Players Theatre where she is a presently a member of the Resident Ensemble. Some of Season’s favorite roles include, Little Red in Into the Woods, Martha in The Secret Garden, Princess Winifred in Once Upon a Mattress, Denise in Smoke on the Mountain, Marian in Music Man and Ado Annie in Oklahoma! Season also enjoys teaching private vocal lessons to local students, helping them find their own voice.