Belvoir’s outstanding acting program offers a combination of excellent teaching, small classes, exciting direction and quality performance experiences. All of this enhances skill, encourages cooperative work, and nurtures self-confidence. Theater at Belvoir is truly magical.
Theater is a popular and exciting program at Belvoir. Both serious actresses and campers with no theater experience enjoy the exciting, fun, and inspiring theater classes at Belvoir. Fourteen professional theater teachers/directors offer classes in acting, acting fundamentals, musical theater, Shakespeare, stage combat, directing, and all aspects of technical theater, including lighting design, building and painting of sets, props, and costuming.
Theater majors can choose daily classes in acting, Shakespeare, and musical theater plus electives in playwriting, improvisation, costuming, and more. Most theater majors also choose classes from the dance department as well as private voice lessons – all to enhance their theater interest. The theater program at Belvoir provides a complete training experience for every actress.
The younger campers enjoy creative dramatics with classes meeting three times a week or daily. The more experienced acting students enjoy intensive daily classes learning character development, acting techniques and play analysis. These students study and perform important theatrical material. All campers enjoy performing for the camp community at the proscenium stage, two outdoor platform stages, and two fully equipped air-conditioned theaters.
