Local NYC Children's Theater Camp Offers Unique, Fun, Interactive Activity for Summer

Looking for a fun and interactive experience for your child this summer? Why not check out THE CHILDREN'S ACTING ACADEMY and CAMP for 4-8 & 9-14 year olds.

With coaching from professional Broadway, TV, and film actors and actresses who on songs, scenes on camera and off, The Children's Acting Academy also works with New York casting directors who coach the children and give advice on what makes a great audition. The maIn Focus is on how each child can grow.

The boutique camp is designed to give each child individual attention. Each age group has 10 or less children. The parents are able to request which acting technique their child wants to work on and which Broadway show their child wants to see. The dance and some acting and singing tools that are taught will come directly from the Broadway show the campers are seeing that week.

Additional highlights of the camp include:

- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday the entire camp goes for a picnic lunch near Strawberry Fields in Central Park

- Every Wednesday there is lunch at a restaurant lunch and a Broadway matinee

- Every Thursday from 1:30-3 there is an open camp recital to show friends and family all of the dancing, singing and acting learned that week

What's great about the camp is each week is its own entity. Kids can come to one week or several weeks, as there are new and different experiences/training each week.

The camp is held Monday-Thursday 9am-3pm on 131 West 72nd Street. Below are more details on the session dates, costs, and specific other programs being offered.

The camp is led by Artistic Director Mimi Stuart, who has been acting and entertaining audiences since she was 10 years old. More info about her is below and she is available for interviews if you are interested in speaking with her directly about her work and the program.

Sessions dates:

June 26-29

July 10-13

July 17-20

July 31-Aug.3

Aug.14-17

Cost:

$595 for one week, Receive $200 off any second week of regular day camp.

Additional programs:

CABARET CAMP:

July 24-28

10 AM-2 PM

Create our own cabaret to be performed Friday night July 28th in a NYC Cabaret theatre.

Price $300

August 4-13 RESORT

We go to Pollace's family resort to rehearse and perform a musical.

10 days and 9 nights away in the Catskills

We do all resort activities.

Price $1500

Show TBA

About Mimi Stuart, Artistic Director

Stuart has been acting and entertaining audiences since she was 10 years old, and professionally since she was 15. Mimi performed Off-Broadway as a lead in The Mandela and Guilty Innocence. She has performed in summer stock as Dolly Levi in The Matchmaker as well as in other leading roles.

Mimi toured the U.S. and Canada in musicals such as My Fair Lady, Godspell, Cinderella, and Pajama Game. Mimi was on daytime TV as Dixie's nurse in All My Children and on nighttime TV as the lead in Ghost Stories. She has been in almost 20 movies and her voice can be heard on several voice-overs. Mimi received her BFA in Acting from York University in Toronto and her MFA in Acting from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, studying under William Esper.

Mimi was the Artistic Director at Saginaw Overnight Camp, directing two shows a summer and teaching drama and improv classes. She taught acting at Kean University and voice and speech at NYU and Weist-Barron. She was the originator of The Children and Teen Musical Theatre, and Voice and Speech Program at HB Studio. She has also directed shows for the last three years at Saints John and Paul in Larchmont, taught the drama class at the Thornton Donovan summer camp, and recently started teaching after school drama in the New Rochelle and Mount Vernon school districts.

Mimi started to teach and direct for Monica May at The Children's Acting Academy in 2000, and became its sole owner four years later. She is thrilled to see her students grow year after year, both artistically and academically. Many students have gone on to study at the four major performing arts high schools in NYC, and to star and appear in Broadway shows.