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WICA Theatre Conservatory Training

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts is thrilled to bring back its conservatory youth training. This comprehensive theatre summer camp is built around professional level training and experiences for youth of all experience levels.  Camp lead instructor, David Churchill, offers a deep dive into actor training and technique wrapped around scenes from Classic and Contemporary Theatre to include scenes from  Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen and Tennessee Williams.  The Conservatory ends with an evening of scene work on Friday, August 12th at 7pm, open to the general public!

Specialty workshops taught by:

WICA Tech Director Tyler Raymond:        An introduction to Technical Theatre

WICA Artistic Director Deana Duncan:     An introduction to further training opportunities, choosing ART as a career and life choice. And Advanced Scene Study or Character Development

Professional Improv Artist Billy Tierney:  Improvisation

Seattle Freelance Film/Media Artist Zachary Schneider:  Introduction to film technique

Registration cost = $250
Scholarships Available!!!

August 8 | 10 AM - 4 PM
August 9 | 10 AM - 4 PM
August 10 | 10 AM - 4 PM
August 11 | 10 AM - 4 PM
August 12 | 10 AM - 4 PM
Final Performance - Aug 12 | 7:00 PM

There will be 30 minutes
allocated for lunch each day

About the Lead Instructor

David Churchill has been writing, directing, and acting for fifty years. A graduate of Western Washington University, majoring in Theater; he then studied for years with Mark Jenkins and Robin Lynn Smith at Freehold Studios, who were students of Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner, respectively. His work spans all genres and periods of theater, and includes directing and playing Hamlet and Macbeth. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and insights with students eager to learn about the art of theater, with an emphasis on the actor’s ability to create authenticity through imagination and connection.

Earlier Event: July 29
Oriental Rug Sale
Later Event: August 13
Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.