Any student who will have completed the 8th grade is eligible for the program. With the completion of appropriate paperwork required by the school district High School students are eligible to receive high school credit for their participation. Credits are transferable to any CSU campus, and to many UC campuses. The 2001 Summer Apprenticeship Program will begin on June 12. Students participate in a wide variety of activities throughout the theatre.
Schedules vary depending on the duties assigned to each student.
The apprenticeship program is a full time commitment through at least the middle of July, with many students extending their participation through the month of August. Exact ending dates may vary, based on individual schedules. Each year skilled professional actors from the company teach campers , how to understand and use Shakespeare's language, how to create believable and exciting characters from Shakespeare's plays, movement techniques for the stage, simple costume design, and about life in Elizabethean England. We offer one-week camps for children eight to twelve years old and an advanced camp for children twelve to seventeen years old. In September we bring the camp down to Grass Valley in conjunction with the Sierra Shakespeare Festival.