Ryan Hewitt Greenwood Community Theater Summer Camp Assistant Director 2011

Greenwood Community theater is located at 110 Main Street in beautiful Uptown Greenwood, South Carolina. GCT aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences. The main goal of the theater is to provide theater "for the community and by the community."

GCT believes in the three "c’s" of theatre…Collaboration, Communication and Creativity. We develop teams to learn to better communicate ideas, thoughts and dreams in an imaginative and creative way to an audience. GCT is a safe environment for people to learn, grow, and create great theatre

Each show in the Kids for Kids season will have a specific age range associated with it so our children have the opportunity to work with appropriate groups as they learn and grow and become excellent youth theatre practitioners. We teach entrepreneurial thinking, these 45 minute to 2 hour long productions are designed for young people to learn to produce, direct, design, work tech, market, stage manage, and perform in. And

Professional adult supervision of these shows ensures that our region’s youths have an opportunity to explore and learn in a safe and well defined environment. Theatre acts as a catalyst for developing the imagination, creative problem solving, and challenging our young people to take responsibility for all their choice making.

Summer Camp’s 2011

My Job and Duties As the assistant director of summer camp’s I worked under Tracie Luquire the director of summer camps and Bess park the Executive Director of the theater to help make sure camps ran smoothly and that the campers not only learned but had a good time. We provided 5 summer camps Creative Sparks (With Art center and Museum) “Hairspray” Theater Camp “Aladdin Jr” Camp ( I was the director of this camp) Musical Theater/ “Aristocats” Camp Theater Extravaganza Camp ( I was the Director of this camp)

Creative Sparks Age 5-12 Cost= $ Campers Was with partnership with the Arts Center, and Museum The camp introduced campers too theater, musical theater,art,music,film, and culture Spent one hour in theater with each group every day Focused on dance, acting games, and singing Theater was voted Kid’s favorite Station!!!!!!!

“Hairspray” Theater Camp Age 5 and Up 9am-Noon Cost $ Campers Taught all aspects of theater based around the musical Hairspray Each Kid received a ticket to see Hairspray for free Campers Performed at end of week for parents with a combination from the show and a song. Campers got a surprise when members of the cast came to camp in costume and took pictures with them.

“Aladdin Jr.” Camp 9a.m-noon for Ages 5-8 9a.m-4p.m for Ages for Half Day 150 for Full Day 34 Campers Based on the Disney movie Aladdin Taught campers all aspects of theater including costume and set design and prepared them to audition for Aladdin Jr Each Camper was guaranteed a part in the show in October

Musical Theater/ “Aristocats Camp” 9a.m-noon Age’s 5-12 Cost=$ Campers Focused on choreography, singing, and auditioning Campers also did crafts ( made cat collars) Campers are guaranteed a role in Aristocats Kids in the spring

Theatre Extravaganza Camp 9a.m to noon 7-17 years old Cost $ Campers Learned Choreography and music from shows such as Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, Seauusical the Musical, Wicked, and Annie Get Your Gun. Performed at the end of the week for parents Campers took place in mock auditions Older Campers did scene work

Help from Lander I used physical and vocal warm up’s taught in acting 1 and 2 Character and script analysis taught in acting 1 and 2 Dance steps taught in Dance 101 and Lander Dancers Acting Games taught in Acting 1 and 2

Surveys From Parents and Campers Would you recommend a GCT summer camp to a friend and if so why? “Yes, because of what it does for the children's self esteem.” Aristocats Camp “Yes, it is a great opportunity for creative expression and is well managed.” Hairspray Camp “Yes, Unique activities not found in any other camp.” Aristocats Camp

Reviews “This year’s group of counselors are outstanding! You can tell they love the campers, they are fun, talented, patient and kind. Everyone made it fun for the children.” “Thanks Ryan, for all that you are adding to our community through GCT! You are an outstanding addition, Greenwood is lucky to have you!”

Help with the future My experience working with the kid’s has taught me so much about myself and theater. The kid’s are so fun to work with and this experience made me realize children’s theater is what I want to do with the rest of my life. I also realized how much I did not know especially with the tech side of theater. Which in the future I will learn more about because of the classes I am taking in future semesters.