The Farm Theater Announces 2014 Training Camp

The Farm Theater announces Training Camp 2014, a program that focuses on the development of pre-professional and early career theater artists. Training Camp will be held at Elmira College on August 4 through August 10. The Farm is seeking a diverse ensemble of sixteen theater artists to participate in this weeklong intensive, which will include classes in acting, writing, ensemble collaboration, and directing.

Additionally, participants will collaborate with professional theater artists on the development of three new scripts.

Training Camp offers a foundation of support and inspiration for future professional artistic pursuits and empowers multi-disciplinary theater artists to self-generate work and take initiative in their artistic careers. The rigorous curriculum is designed to strengthen fundamental skills in acting, writing, directing, and physical story telling, with a focus on developing multi-disciplinary artists. Tuition for the program is $1,250 and includes room and board for the week. For more information or to apply to the Farm Theater's Training Camp 2014, visit http://www.thefarmtheater.org/education.html.

The Farm Theater's mission is to cultivate artists, companies, and projects through workshops, productions, and mentoring. Padraic Lillis, founder and artistic director of The Farm, is a professional director, playwright and educator. This past season he was named one of Indie Theater Now's People of the Year, and was the recipient of the NY IT Award for Outstanding Direction, and the Overall Excellence Award for New York International Fringe Festival. Lillis has taught with NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing for over ten years and designed and oversaw the Labyrinth Theater's Intensive Ensemble, a program that developed plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Halley Feiffer, Adam Rapp, John Patrick Shanley, Kristina Poe, Ken Lonergan, Brett C. Leonard, and Annie Baker. www.thefarmtheater.org