Camp Type: Sleepaway Session Length: One to Six Weeks Camp Focus:
Theatre
Acting
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Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as “1 of 25 Summer Schools of the Arts,” Traveling Players offers a range of programs for acting students (grades 3 - 12), from advanced performance training in our 6-week pre-college Shakespeare Troupe to 1-week introductory workshops for beginners.
Our hallmark summer theatre camps and acting conservatories are by-audition and residential -- in the foothills of Leesburg, VA. Actors (grades 4-12) rehearse a play in small, supportive groups of only 13 performers. Led by a trio of directors (faculty to student ratio -- 1:4), they receive expert acting training in ensemble-based theatre, text analysis, and stage combat. Each session culminates in a professionally staged and designed public performance with plays by Shakespeare, Moliere, and based on Greek Mythology.
Traveling Players emphasizes a meaningful engagement with nature. Our residential programs include a weekly campout – when performers learn Leave No Trace camping techniques, to pitch tents, and cook outdoors. As artists and backpackers, campers learn self-reliance and creative problem solving, and gain an appreciation of challenges and beauty -- while making lifelong friendships.
Members of our advanced Shakespeare Troupe apply the skills they have learned as artists and backpackers to a 5-day professional performance tour. Past tours have included performances at the Kennedy Centers’ Millennium Stage, Colonial Williamsburg, and Lime Kiln Theatre.
Young actors (grades 3-6) in the DC-metro area can train at our Studio in Tysons Corner Center. Spring Break and summer day camps expand imaginations, confidence and skills while forming new friendships. Studio training is available year-round to students of all levels.
Small by design and awarded for excellence, Traveling Players has been bringing great theatre into the great outdoors for 20 years.
Traveling Players Ensemble is awarded $53,392 by ArtsFairfax, their largest award to date, to support their vibrant theatre education programs. For 20 years, Traveling Players has been a leader in theatrical education, offering artistic challenges unlike any other pre-college theatre program in the nation.
Tickets are now available for Alice in Wonderland, which runs May 6 & 7 at Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center. Performed by Traveling Players students in grades 5-7, the play is a new imagining of Carroll's classic daydream, a perfect spring outing for the whole family!
Judith Walsh White's new play Cupid & Psyche will premiere this summer at Traveling Players in Tysons Corner Center. The play is commissioned for Traveling Players' Mythology Ensemble; a 2-week sleepaway theatre summer camp for kids currently in grades 4-6. Auditions will be held on February 26, 2022, with performances on July 7 & 28, 2023.
Traveling Players Ensemble performs Commedia Christmas Carol with special guest appearances by Congressman Gerry Connolly (11-D) and Fairfax County Supervisor Dalia Palchick (Providence-D), on Saturday, December 10 at the Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center.
Parents of young aspiring thespians know that a really good children’s play – especially one written to be performed by young actors – is rare. Most of the plays written for children to perform are aimed at much younger audiences than the actors performing them, with language and stories that hit below their reading level. That is why Traveling Players is once again commissioning award-winning local playwright, Judith Walsh White to pen a new twist on a Greek myth – the heroic tale of Heracles! The play will premiere this summer at the Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center starring local kids.
Traveling Players Ensemble performs Euripides' ancient revenge tragedy Hecuba, followed by a discussion led by American University Professor Barbara Wien, on Saturday March 12 at the Traveling Players Studio in Tysons Corner Center.
Theatre Washington, in coordination with their partner theatres, announces an extension and updates to the previously implemented policies requiring vaccination and mask-wearing at theatre venues across the Washington, DC region.
Traveling Players Ensemble is awarded $10,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works Projects to support their innovative summer acting camps & conservatories.