Summer Intensives
Make a show in a week!
Summer Intensives: Summer Theater Done DIFFERENTLY!
Each Monday, we start with a theme, a few songs and some platforms, materials, and lights in an empty theater. Then each Friday, we have a show – written, performed and built entirely by our students. This isn’t your typical summer theater camp!
How do we do it?
Two River Theater Summer Intensives attracts young people (ages 12–17) who want to make theater – to be in the rehearsal room or the scene shop to brainstorm ideas. They learn tangible theater skills from top-notch teaching artists who challenge and bring out the best in them. Add in the fun of meeting new creative friends who are accepting, brave, serious, as well as incredibly silly, and together they create new stories to share with audiences. Each week’s performance is unique as it features the specific talents of the people in the room. You won’t find another theater program like it!
Full and partial scholarships are available.
Questions? Email summercamp@trtc.org.
REGISTER NOW: SUMMER INTENSIVES 2026
Week One: July 13-17 l Week Two: July 20-24
Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm l Shows are on Fridays at 8pm
Save 10% when you register for both weeks! Book Below.
WEEK ONE: ONSTAGE
WEEK ONE: BACKSTAGE
WEEK TWO: ONSTAGE
WEEK TWO: BACKSTAGE
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarship Applications are now open for Summer Intensives!
We believe that art is for everyone, so Two River Theater helps families by removing financial barriers for student participation. Full and partial scholarships are available. Submit an application and we will get back to you shortly!
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MEET THE TEACHING ARTISTS
Olivia M Buonsante
Olivia M Buonsante is a native New Yorker who grew up in Musical Theatre, performing with “the most talented youth of Long Island,” as well as The Broadway Workshop and The Broadway Artists Alliance in NYC. After attending AMDA’s Conservatory program, she chose to pursue a career behind the scenes and completed her degree at Montclair State University studying various areas of production including stage management, lighting design, set decoration, and prop building. Currently, Olivia is working with Reveal Design Group in Manhattan, “an award-winning team of lighting artists passionate about revealing the unique stories inherent in each space through artful yet precise illumination.” Her favorite credits include working at The Creature Shop with The Jim Henson Company and teaching here, at Two River Theater! She dedicates all her work to those who inspired her to become an artist, her grandparents, Susan and Joe. www.oliviambuonsante.com
Kelly O'Donnell
Kelly O’Donnell is a director, teacher, and co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble in NYC. She works as a teaching artist at Stages on the Sound and teaches theatre across Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx. She is also on the theatre faculty at the Spence School in Manhattan. Kelly has directed college productions at NYU, Temple University, Lafayette College, the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, and high school students as part of Shakespeare & Company’s Fall Festival of Shakespeare. Her professional credits include Wolf Play (Portland Theater Festival), Indecent (Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Best Director), The Agitators, and Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B at Playhouse on Park; Hearts Like Fists (New York Times Critics Pick), Dog Act by Liz Duffy Adams, Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood by Adam Szymkowicz, World Builders by Johnna Adams, and Jane the Plain by Corinna Schulenburg (NYIT Award nominee, Best Director). She has developed new work with New Dramatists, Portland Center Stage (JAW), The Flea, NJ Rep, and JRJ Productions. Kelly holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University. kellyod.com
Lucas Pinner
LUCAS PINNER is an actor, fight choreographer and teaching artist who graduated from Kean University with a BFA in Theatre Performance. He has worked with many theatres and schools across New Jersey; devising original work, directing, teaching improvisation, stage combat and acting techniques. For many years, Lucas taught as a STEM Teaching Artist, working with students to combine science, technology, engineering and math with the arts in order to create original costumes, sets, sound effects and props for their performances. He is thrilled to be working with Two River Theater this summer!
Elliot Roth
Elliot Roth is a NYC based singer/pianist/actor, composer and instructor. Hailed by the New York Times for his “silky smooth voice”, he is a masters graduate of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music jazz arts program. Broadway: Our Sinatra and A Christmas Carol, Off-Broadway credits include Village Voice lauded role as ‘Jesus’ in Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert at the Living Room. He has appeared in Downbeat Magazine as one of the area’s “Top 20 Performers to Watch” and is one of the most versatile performers in the tri-state area. Elliot also currently teaches voice, rock/pop audition technique and jazz/soul recording arts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY. Elliot currently serves on the voice faculty at Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Arts Department. www.theElliotRoth.com
PHOTOS & VIDEOS
A Look Back at Summer Intensives!
PARENT & GUARDIAN STORIES
“I was just blown away by how amazing the show was overall. And my daughter completely loved every hour of this camp and it’s hard to keep her attention that long. We just loved this program and will shout about it from the rooftops. Thank you to all of those who supported and guided their kids!”
The opportunity for the students to work together in creating a production of their own work was beyond impressive and well done. The creative, collaborative and supportive environment really was like nothing my daughter has ever been involved in. She loved every minute of every day!
Wonderful staff. The camp is brilliantly organized so that the kids can take ownership of the entire creative process from writing the script, to performing it at the end of the week!
There is something about Two River that makes the program so inviting and enjoyable compared to others. It allows you to step outside you comfort zone and make new friends along the way.
It’s a great way to learn about the theater on an actual stage with actual professionals.
The most supportive staff and students anywhere! The children are all happy experimenting with different ways of creating art. Very nice group of students sign-up, so you can take risks.
The overall quality of the staff and the opportunity to create a production from start to finish in one week.
It is truly a safe space and goes above and beyond a typical theatre camp experience by creating memories and bonds that last forever.
Everyone is accepted for who they are. All kids are always hanging out together rather than cliques like at school.
We don’t have enough superlatives to express the extent of how wonderful the entire experience was.
The people involved are the GAME CHANGER! Amazing people!!!
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