Looking for Shakespeare is a four-week-long theater camp held by New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. During the course of the camp, high school students work with a director as well as NYU graduate students to put on an original Shakespeare production. While the camp program runs six hours during the daytime, students are allowed to stay in the dorms of NYU during the course of the camp. At the end of the program, the students put on three public performances.
The School of Cinema and Performing Arts (SOCAPA), which has campuses in New York City, Los Angeles and Vermont, hosts an acting camp for teens at each of its campuses. This acting camp is largely focused on teaching students how to act in movies. At the same time an acting camp is running, the school also puts on a film-making camp. The film-making camp students use the students from the acting camp in their films.
Nestled in the quaint town of Twin Lakes, Michigan, is Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. This creative camp for teens allows students to pick a major and a minor. The camp's theater major focuses on acting, musical theater, voice, movement and combat. Within the major, students choose one of three theater focuses---Shakespeare, musical theater or contemporary acting. At the end of each two-week session, students give performances at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Festival.
The New York Film Academy also offers summer camps for teens who are interested in acting and theater. Their Musical Theatre Camp, based in New York City, is a four-week-long program that allows students to study the skills needed for success in musical theater. Students study movement and dance, voice, and also turning a scene into a song. At the end of the session, students participate in a performance lab, where they perform in a well-known musical.