Performing Arts Summer Camps

Join us to create, share, and perform!

With options for students Grade 3-12, young performers will take center stage to perform their hearts out in thrilling performing arts camps from Orlando Shakes! While learning from theater professionals, young actors will tackle essential acting skills while exploring their craft through fun themes, including stories from Magic Tree House, Wild Kratts, Shakespeare, and more!

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Grade 3 – Grade 5
Grade 6 – Grade 8
Grade 7 – Grade 12
Grade 9 – Grade 12

 

MORNING AND AFTERCARE: ALL GRADES
Your camper can arrive at Shakes as early as 8:30am and stay until 5:30pm. After Care includes outside play, crafts, games, and movies in a safe, supervised environment.

Morning Care = $30/week
After Care = $60/week
Both = $80/week

SPECIAL SIBLING DISCOUNT
20% discount when registering more than one student in the same family for the same week of camp and/or Morning Care/After Care. (Not valid with any other offers.)

REGISTER YOUR CHILD TODAY!
Visit orlandoshakes.org or call 407-447-1700 ext. 1

CANCELLATION POLICY: Classes and Summer Camps may be canceled due to low enrollment up to two days prior to start date. Should a class or summer camp be canceled, registrants will receive a choice of a full refund or credit to their account.

REFUND POLICY: No refunds will be given after seven days prior to the class/camp start date.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: Full and partial scholarships are available for students who qualify.

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About One-Week Camps

Our One Week camps are taught by theater professionals and are designed to ignite the imagination and inspire creativity while teaching life skills. Each camp will culminate with a video recorded “shareformance” for friends and family. Camps are limited to 20 students and should be selected by the grade your child will enter in August 2025.

Grade 3 – Grade 5

Time: Monday – Friday, 9am – 3pm
Tuition: $325

Shakespeare’s Avengers, June 2 – 6

Fans will experience their favorite scenes, characters, and lines in a new—yet fully faithful—way when the cinematic franchise is done by the greatest playwright of all time, performing scenes and speeches from Captain America to Groot .

Ghost Town at Sundown: Magic Tree House, June 9 – 13

Is this town HAUNTED? Jack and Annie wonder when the Magic Tree House whisks them to the Wild West. But before they can say “Boo!,” they rush headlong into an adventure filled with horse thieves, a lost colt, rattlesnakes, a cowboy named Slim and GHOSTS!

Wild Kratts, June 16 – 20

Follow in the footsteps of the Kratt Brothers as they meet wild animals and solve wild mysteries!

Thor & Loki, June 23 – June 27

Thor grapples with the stress of final exams while his brother Loki faces challenges of a different kind. Their sibling rivalry sparks a series of mischievous pranks as they vie for their parents’ attention. Yet beneath the thunder and trickery, the two Princes of Asgard uncover a bond strong enough to endure for millennia.

Gravity Falls, July 7 – 11

Spend the summer in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, where you’ll help run The Mystery Shack!

Game of Tiaras: Royal Rivalries on Stage, July 14 – 18

Princesses, battles, and betrayals—oh my! Inspired by this epic mash-up of Game of Thrones and fairy tales, students will create their own dramatic scenes filled with humor, action, and royal intrigue.

Dinosaurs Before Dark: Magic Tree House, July 21 – 25

Join Jack and Annie on their very first adventure, when their mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark…or will they become a dinosaur’s dinner?!

Phineas & Ferb, July 28 – Aug. 1

Go on a summer vacation with the brothers as they travel back in time!

 

TWO-WEEK PRODUCTION CAMPS: Grades 6 – 12

Time: Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm
Tuition: $500

Our two week Production Camps are taught by theater professionals and are designed to teach theater skills of performance and collaboration. Each camp will culminate with a LIVE performance for friends and family. Camps are limited to 20 students and should be selected by the grade your child will enter in August 2025.

 

Disney’s Dare to Dream, June 2 – 13.

Performance: June 13 at 4pm

Follow an eager group of trainees on their first day at a fictional Walt Disney Imagineering Studio as they work together to explore the power of dreams to unite, inspire, and make anything possible. Dare to Dream JR. features songs appearing for the first time ever in a Disney stage musical, including fan-favorites from The Princess and the Frog, Coco, Encanto, and Frozen II.

Puffs: The Other School of Magic, June 16 – 27.

Performance: June 27 at 4pm

Step into the world of Puffs and celebrate the hilariously heartfelt journey of the “other” wizards! Create scenes inspired by Matt Cox’s hit play and bring the underdog house to life with magical moments and plenty of laughs.

Roald Dahl’s Matilda THE MUSICAL, JR., July 21 – August 1.

Performance: August 1 at 4pm

Rebellion is nigh in Matilda JR., a gleefully witty ode to the anarchy of childhood and the power of imagination! This story of a girl who dreams of a better life and the children she inspires will have audiences rooting for the “revolting children” who are out to teach the grown-ups a lesson.

 

THE YOUNG COMPANY

The Young Company is an introduction to the world of professional theater which culminates with performances in the Margeson Theater. Having been cast through an audition process or technical interview, the company engages in an intense four-week rehearsal period, including table work, exploration of meter, status, voice, and movement. Working with professional directors and costume, light, set, and sound designers, this program culminates with ticketed performances on stage.

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SHAKESPEARE WITH HEART

This program is a collaboration between UCP of Central Florida, the Exceptional Education Department of UCF, and the Orlando Shakespeare Theater which brings students with and without disabilities together over a two-week period to produce a Shakespeare play. All students participate in daily voice, movement, and warm-up activities before rehearsing together. This two-week camp culminates in a fully produced performance on stage. Scholarships available.

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