2024 Summer Theatre Intensive

The fun and excitement of Summer Theatre Camp at the Carver returns from Monday, June 10 through Friday, June 28, 2024 for actors and technical crew ages 10-18. 

WE ARE THRILLED to once again have Christopher Reese as our Summer Theatre Intensive Director! Christopher J. Reese is the Theatre Director and a Graduation Coach at Sam Houston High School. As an actor, he has been featured in the musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Threepenny Opera, and Sweeney Todd.  An alumnus of SAISD, he attended Pershing and Douglas Elementary Schools, Poe Middle School and graduated from Highlands High School.  He is a US Army veteran having served during Operation Desert Storm. He received his Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Theatre and Communication Studies from Texas State University where he was the recipient of various awards for acting and Public Speaking. A member of the M.F.A. Acting program at The University of Texas at Austin, he received his Master’s degree in 2013 where he was a Virginia L. Murchison Regents Fellow. He has been awarded the Sam Houston High School Core Values Teaching Award for Passion and is a recipient of the SAISD 2019 Star Educator Award. 

Actors will receive daily instruction in choreography, voice and acting from professional artists, while the technical theatre students will work alongside professional technicians to learn production, sound, lighting, props, costuming and more!  This year's camp is a fully produced performance of LEGENDS!  Legends is an original jukebox-style musical that showcases our students as entertainment icons who come together to raise funds for the arts.  They will learn about ICONIC and LEGENDARY actors and musicians in an exciting, educational and entertaining way.  The three-week intensive will culminate in a showcase production where campers demonstrate their performance and costume-making skills in front of a live audience of family and friends on Friday, June 28 at 7pm in the Jo Long Theatre!!

CAMP COMPONENTS: Dance session, music sessions, acting sessions, technical, mask workshop, creative costuming workshop, performance workshop, rehearsals and an end-of-camp PERFORMANCE!

THE PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP: We will combine a variety of monologues, scenes and songs from different musical and acting legends to create a one-of-a-kind, completely EXCLUSIVE AND MAGICAL Carver Summer Theatre Intensive!

THE CREATIVE COSTUMING WORKSHOP: The Costume Workshop enables campers the exploration of the technical and creative processes of costume building using various fabrics and trims without the use of sewing machines.  The techniques are safe and easily accessible for students of all ages.  They include the use of gluing, hand-stitching, tying and other no sew techniques.