About the Course
Why do we love musicals? The singing and dancing of course! This camp gets you moving. Campers will practice singing and dancing through learning musical numbers from beloved musical theater shows, all leading up to a final presentation for family and friends on the last day of camp. So dust off your dancing feet and get ready to learn some showtunes! Ages 11-16 *** Contact us to be put on the waitlist***
Your Instructor
Jake Boyce
Jake Boyce earned his BA in Dance Education from the Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance at Dean College in 2016, and has just recently earned his Professional Lyric Writing Certificate from Berklee School of Music! He has been choreographing for theatres and schools around Maine since 2015. Jake's style lies in Musical Theatre with a touch of inspiration from hip hop, contemporary, and jazz. Some notable choreographer credits include head choreographer for Chicago at CLT, Matilda at Lyric and Midcoast Youth Theatre, Urinetown at CLT, and Directing and Choreographing Catch Me If You Can in Standish, Maine to name a few. From 2014-2016 Jake was a Director of Dance at Community Little Theatre for their Youth Musical Theatre Summer Program as well as their Teen Musical Theatre Summer Program. After 2 years of hustling the entertainment industry here in Portland, Jake left his full time job in education to pursue his career as Chartreuse (his Drag Persona) full time, booking a comedy show in NYC, working with Miz Cracker from RuPaul's Drag Race, and working closely with Equality Maine here at home. Jake was one of the trillions of people whose careers were affected by COVID 19, but he is so happy and grateful for the opportunity to teach and meet the community of Royal River Community Players!
Lauren Murphy
Lauren Murphy (She/her/hers) has been teaching music since 2013 after graduating from the University of Southern Maine with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education. She also does both directing and music directing for community theater productions. She was the music director of Royal River Community Players production of “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown” in 2022 and is excited to return to RRCP for camp this summer. She also enjoys performing and is currently a member of the Portland-based a cappella group “The Pine State Pitches”.