Lots of Excitement

Well, a lot has happened here since my last post. First of all I attended the first production meeting for Midsummer. It was a very exciting experience. The beginning of the meeting was a lot of signing contracts and filling out paperwork for the designers. Then we called the director in New York and put him on speakerphone to begin discussing the show. He has decided to place our production in the 1980's and it looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. There's going to be fun costume and make up and the set will also be very cool, especially considering we have to be able to take it apart and move it around to our different touring locations.

Next, that is both exciting and a little nerve-wracking is that Morgan and I have been bumped up from assistants at the first week of camp and are now going to be team-teaching right away. I'm extremely excited, and it is definitely a great opportunity, but I am a little nervous, never having experienced how this camp works before. Luckily we're going to have an assistant that's been there before to help us through it, possibly even my little cousin who's been tagging along all summer. He's become a sort of honorary intern with all of the work he's been helping us do.

The spring classes are all wrapping up now as well. We have one more day of showcases on Saturday and then the summer classes start on Monday. I'm really excited to get to see how some of the classes are handled and how the teachers begin, as I've already seen some of the ending class periods. I also think this might help me prepare for camp. I can see generally how Junior Theatre runs and interacts with the kids in the classroom setting and apply that to what I'll be doing during the camps.

Well, I think that's all the exciting news I have for now. Today Daniel, Morgan and I (and my cousin Matthew) went over the schedule for the rest of the summer and started talking about some of the outreach events that Morgan and I will be running, so that's something to look forward to. Our first one is on June 18th where we'll be doing facepainting and running a bunch of theatre games at the top of each hour. More news to come.