Summer camps for Teens
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OCT offers a variety of summer camp opportunities for teens—regardless of their experience! Students ages 13 and older can engage in a theatre education experience that will excite, inspire, and allow them to grow in their theatrical training and ambitions.
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summer camps for teens
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The legends: a devised theatre intensive
Step into a three-week creative intensive where myth meets the modern world. In this collaborative production process, students won’t just perform a play—they’ll create one from the ground up.
Drawing inspiration from global myths, folklore, and legendary archetypes, participants will devise and write an original theatrical work titled The Legends. Through guided playwriting, improvisation, and ensemble-building, students will shape characters, storylines, and themes that reflect both ancient storytelling traditions and the urgent questions facing today’s generation.
Along the way, students will also engage in the full production process: exploring acting, design, and technical elements as they bring their original piece to life. Facilitated by professional theatre artists, this intensive is ideal for teens interested in performance, storytelling, and the power of collaborative creation.
The experience culminates in a fully realized performance of a brand-new work: bold, imaginative, and completely their own.
About the Camp
Fee: $1,495
Three-week production intensive for students 13 and up
Full-day camp (9:00 am–4:00 pm)
Located at the Boiler Room Theater on PSU’s Campus
Final performance for family & friends on Friday, August 21 & Saturday, August 22
Directed by Matthew B. Zrebski with support from PSU Faculty
Teens of all experience levels welcome!
Meet the Teaching Artist
Matthew B. Zrebski is a multi-award-winning director, playwright, composer, script consultant, teaching artist, and producer whose career has been defined by new play development and innovative productions. Recent directing credits include 'R.U.R.,' 'The Lantern of Jack,' 'One Woman Too Much,' 'Spider,' 'How I Learned to Drive,' 'Hide,' 'Orlando,' 'I Want to Destroy You,' and 'Bob: A Life in Five Acts.' His recently produced writing includes his adaptation of 'R.U.R.,' 'The Demolition,' 'On the Subject of Socks,' 'Arm,' 'One Move,' 'Shiver: a musical ghost story,' 'Red in the Cloud,' 'In a Single Breath,' 'Offended!,' 'Carnivora,' 'Chrysalis,' and 'Ablaze: an a cappella musical thriller,' which received its New York City premiere in 2019. A passionate advocate for arts education, he’s the former Resident Teaching Artist at Portland Center Stage and is on staff with the Acting Academy at Oregon Children’s Theatre. He is the current Director of Education for Playwrights West, overseeing both the Teen West Ink Playwriting Residency Program as well as the Teen West Project New Work Development Production Program. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is an alumnus of The Recording Academy (Grammy voter). He holds a BFA in Theatre Studies from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University where he graduated summa cum laude.
