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Creative Drama, Acting, Improvisation

Children's Acting Academy

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Top 5 Broadway Schools for Kids

Top 5 Broadway School for Kids

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Watch[ing] kids work with Mimi Stuart is like a rose bud slowly grow until it opens its petals to a full blown rose and get an applause for its beauty.

Doris Stinga

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Mimi Stuart is a dedicated and inspirational teacher. Any young person lucky enough to attend her Children’s Acting Academy can develop a more confident personality which is a great preparation for success in life.

David De Silva

Developed & Produced the Acclaimed Musical FAME

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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx. – Al Pacino

Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.

– Uta Hagen

You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

– Emma Stone

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

– Sanford Meisner

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

– George Burns

Use what you know. Don’t worry about what you don’t know. – Michael Shurtleff

Acting is not the things you say, it’s the things you don’t say. – Dame Judi Dench

The whole thing is to keep working, and pretty soon they think you are good. – Jack Nicholson

Children’s Acting Academy

NOW OFFERING

SUMMER CAMP!

AGES

4-8 & 9-13

In-Person!

Pay by check or Zelle, using The Children’s Acting Academy and CAANYC@gmail.com

AND

FILL OUT THE (Summer) REGISTRATION FORM ON OUR WEB SITE

FOR In-Person SUMMER CAMP

(Zoom Options Available)

SIX POSSIBLE WEEKS OF CAMP!

Come for one week or come for all Six!

July 5-8, July 12-15, July 19-22, July 26-29, August 2-5, August 9-12

STARTS JULY 5 and ENDS AUGUST 12

Monday-Thursday (no Fridays)

First Option: In-Person 9am – 3pm Monday – Thursday FOR ONLY $500 per week

(In-Person)

Second Option: PICK 4 MEETINGS IN ONE WEEK FOR ONLY $100 PER WEEK

(On Zoom)

Third Option: PICK 2 MEETINGS IN ONE WEEK FOR ONLY $50.00 PER WEEK

(On Zoom)

Zoom Sessions each day:

10:00-10:45

11:00-11:45

1:00-1:45

2:00-2:45

Activities

Every week there will be dancing, singing, improvisation, theatre exercises, speech & diction, interview skills, acting training, writing our own monologues, mime, warm ups and more.

(e.g. commercials, monologues, comedy scenes, TV and film scenes and more)

At least one meeting with an industry specialist (e.g. casting director, voiceover director and more)

A Broadway star will coach everyone on their song.

Lunch and water should be packed. We will provide snacks.

Picnic lunch at Strawberry Fields, weather permitting.

First week guest artist Kip Kaplan led a hugely successful workshop for us last Summer and was so impressed with our talented students that he called several of our workshop participants in to audition. Some of them booked TV Shows and Feature Films through Kip Kaplan!

Click for: Kip Kaplan bio and projects

The camp will do exercises working on expressiveness, spontaneity, physical and speech warm ups, scenes, commercials, poetry, monologues, sketch comedy.

We will introduce a series of exercises focusing on Chekhov technique, Meisner technique and Lee Strasberg’s relaxation, sense memory/method technique.

1:30pm – 3pm on Thursdays during Summer Camp will be an open camp recital.

SEE YOU IN CAMP SOON!

Please email or call us for additional information.

caanyc@gmail.com / 212-860-7101

Click Here to Sign-up!