Join us for Summer Camp!

Regular Admission for all Summer Camps is $300. Financial Aid is available on a need-based-basis, but all applicants must follow the directions below:

If applying for Financial Aid for any of our Summer Camp sessions, please fill out our Financial Aid Application before registering for camp. Once your application is processed (3 – 5 business days) we will provide you with a code to register. Financial aid is need-based only and applicants must fill out the form and make a personal statement to be considered. Payment plans are also available.

COVID-19 
Our staff is fully vaccinated and staff & campers will wear masks indoors at all times. Outdoors, campers & staff will not be required to wear masks as per state guidance.
All of our in-person programs are held in a well-ventilated facility with social distancing and ample opportunity for outdoor time. Campers will remain in stable pods of students with the same teaching artists all week.

For all questions about our Summer Camps or financial aid, please email Mycah Hogan at mycah@thewilburygroup.org.

ABOUT OUR SUMMER CAMP SESSIONS:

StoryLab!
Monday, July 19 - Friday, July 23
9am - 12pm
Rising 1st - 4th Grade
$300

StoryLab is a storytelling project about the food we love to eat and the ways that food can connect us! Using the book, Thank You, Omu, by Oge Mora, actors will create an original piece of theatre inspired by the text and their own stories. Actors will learn character building and playmaking skills as they use their actor tools to collaborate, play and create together.

Instructors: Marielle Burt & Suzu Ledoux

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World Lab!
Monday, July 26 - Friday, July 30
9am - 3pm
Rising 5th - 8th Grade
$300

Students will work together to design their own planet with unique geography, creatures, and politics. Using physical theater and improvisation techniques, students will invent characters and devise a short play set in this alternate planet. Over the course of the week, students will gain skills in personal expression, narrative building, and collaboration. 

​Instructors: Marielle Burt & Ronald Kevin Lewis Jr.

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PlayLab!
Monday, August 2 - Friday, August 6
9am - 3pm
Rising 9th - 12th Grade
$300

PlayLab students will explore various devising lenses to create a collaborative, original performance. They will engage in all aspects of a theatrical process including writing, directing, performance, and design. By the end of the week, students will gain new tools that they can apply to any creative process.

Instructor: Marielle Burt 

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About the Instructors!

Marielle Burt is a multidisciplinary theater artist, educator, and community organizer. She studied directing at the National Theater Institute, trained in devised theater at Bard College Berlin, and received a certification in elementary education from the Relay Graduate School. As an undergraduate at Brown University, Marielle studied the intersection of gender studies and performance culminating in an honors thesis project on new play development as a means of social dialogue. She has previously worked at Studio Theater, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Trinity Repertory Company. Marielle believes in the power of play to connect communities, spur innovation, and vision a better world. 

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Suzu Ledoux is a theatre artist and educator who uses the power of stories to build compassion, collaboration and creativity. Currently she teaches Theatre at Achievement First Iluminar in Providence. She worked as Drama Teacher at the IDEAL School of Manhattan, as the Program Director at Kids Creative for 10 years, and was the Director of Vital Children’s Theatre for 4 seasons, during that time she directed the original production of “Pinkalicious the Musical” and “The Bully." Suzu is an actor with Strange Attractor, Honest Accomplice Theatre, The Forum Project, and Living Voices. Her teaching artist experience includes CHANGE Arts, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Vital Theatre, Capacity Arts, Border Crossers, and the Creative Arts Team Youth Theatre. She has presented theatre-based workshops at the AATE National Conference, the NYC Arts Education Face to Face Conference and Facing Race. Suzu has a B.A. in Drama and Arts Education and a M.A.in Applied Theatre.

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Ronald Kevin Lewis Jr. is a Providence-based theatre artist, teacher, and writer - originally from Jacksonville, FL.  As an actor, performer, or director, Ronald has worked with AS220, Strange Attractor, COAAST, Denizen Arts, The Wilbury Group Theatre, Rites and Reason, Brown University, The Community College of Rhode Island, among others.  A 2015 graduate of Rhode Island College, Ronald is co-creator of the film festival, The Wandering Mercuries, which toured from Providence, RI to Chicago, IL in 2012 - via bikes - making stops at libraries and community centers in eleven cities.  Ronald’s first devised-theatre piece, God Made Me Queer, debuted in 2015 (AS220), Heurisko: a play about found things, was featured in AS220’s Modern Movements Festival in April 2016 and toured to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Ronald co-founded the interdisciplinary Providence-based collaborative The Low Mountain Top Collective with whom he has devised 3 new works. Ronald also collaborated on We Made This, the prize-winning entry in the 2017 RI Devised Theatre Festival. In 2019, Ronald won a Motif Magazine Award for the original work, We Made The Us. 

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For questions related to PlayLab Summer Classes at The Wilbury Group, contact Mycah Hogan at mycah@thewilburygroup.org. 

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​*all classes are held at WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley Street, Providence RI 02908

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