July 2021 Cain Park Performance in the EVANS AMPHITHEATRE
Ensemble Theatre’s Performing Arts Camp is a FREE performing arts summer camp opportunity for Cuyahoga County base middle school aged students. Using curriculum developed by Ensemble Theatre, we successfully completed our 8th camp in the summer of 2024, which culminated in a live performance in the Sanctuary of Disciples Christian Church in Cleveland Heights! This camp, led by Ensemble Theatre, offers a no barriers yearly summer opportunity and access to a rich performing arts experience, to youth from schools within Cuyahoga County. Each year’s camp includes these focus areas: Theatre, Film, & Voice Overs!
Ensemble Theatre is dedicated to the responsible production of works that celebrate the human spirit, committed to non-traditional casting and providing culturally diverse programming that speaks to issues of contemporary life. Heights Performing Arts Camp was created by Ensemble Theatre in 2017 through a partnership with Building Heights, a group of Cleveland Hts.-University Hts School District parents, dedicated to facilitating a safe, inclusive, community-focused environment through outreach and programming. Ensemble Theatre expanded our program in the summer of 2022, to include students from schools all across Cuyahoga County!
The dates for this coming summer’s camp are July 14th to July 25th!
with a final performance on Friday July 25th, 2025 at 7pm.
This years camp will take place in the Marinello Little Theatre on the campus of
John Carroll University in University Heights!
1 John Carroll Blvd :: University Heights, OH 44118
MEET OUR 2025 INSTRUCTORS SOON!
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS FROM THIS PAST SUMMER!!
Madison Lenyard-King (Instructor/Film Coordinator) is a professional actor and filmmaker from Cleveland, OH. He is an Afro-Caribbean Digital Media Production cum laude graduate from Kent State University with a minor in Theatre Performance. He has had the experience of working on numerous award winning short films, as well as worked as a marketing strategist for an Academy-Award nominated production studio. He strives to share his voice and perspective with the world through telling unique and thought-provoking stories through film, hoping to one day change the world
and inspire others along the way!
Ariana Starkman (Instructor/Theatre Coordinator) (she/her) is excited to return to teaching theatre. She has a BA in Theatre and Social Change from UPitt, and spent significant amounts of time studying acting in Arezzo, Moscow, and London. She is trained in ten stage combat weapons, is a Consent-Forward Artist with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and is Program Manager for a Cleveland non-profit organization focused on somatics. Ariana has taught ages 4 to 85 and can’t wait to giggle and learn all together.
MEET OUR PROFESSIONAL DROP IN ARTISTS FOR 2024!
Nina Domingue (Playwriting/Storytelling Drop-In) is a Black New Orleans native who is currently based in Cleveland. She is a griot, cultural memory worker, actor, director, and playwright, who currently serves as the Artistic Associate of Karamu House. Her most recent work includes directing STEW at Dobama, writing Red Summer and co-directing it with Tony F. Sias, directing The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin and The Breakfast at the Bookstore at Karamu House. She was a part of Cleveland Public Theater’s Premier Fellowship Cohort for the 2020-2021 season. Her solo show The Absolutely Amazing and True Adventures of Miss Joan Southgate has been included on The Kilroy’s List 2020. She was a Barbara Smith Playwright in Residence at Twelve Literary Arts and the Nord Family Foundation Playwriting Fellow and Catapult Artist at Cleveland Public Theatre during the 2019-2020 theatrical season. Her solo show Ya Mama! (dir: Nathan Henry) launched its tour at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and a run at Cleveland Public Theatre this past fall. Credits include: Paradise Blue (Justin Emeka, Karamu House), Revolt, She Said. Revolt, Again (Sarah E. Wansley, Dobama), Medea At 6 (Ensemble Theatre), It Hasn’t Always Been This Way by Ntozake Shange (Off-Broadway, Diane McIntyre). Critics say that Nina is “...a young Anna Deavere Smith” and watching her is “like a master class in acting."
Jason Eno (Professional Actor Drop-In) is a proud Cleveland native who has graced stages professionally all across the United States. Whether it be a musical, Shakespearean play, tv/film or commercial, Jason embraces every opportunity to expand his depth of artistry and versatility in storytelling. Mr. Eno has a bachelor of music degree from Baldwin Wallace University’s illustrious musical theatre program. This summer Jason is heading to Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival with Great Lakes Theater co-production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
It is our intention to always keep our Summer Performing Arts Camp FREE for the campers!
If you are able, please consider a donation to help support this amazing program!
Ensemble Theatre is a 501(c)3. All donations are tax deductible to the fully extent of the law.
Please include “ETPAC” in the notes of your online donation, or in the memo line of a check!
Our Past & Current Supporters, Community Partners, and Sponsors!
Notre Dame College Performing Arts, The Henry K. & Emma R. Fox Family Foundation,
The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, The Ohio Arts Council, John & Barbara Schubert, Mark D. Andeson & Fey Parrill, Tom& Kirsten Hagesfeld, Open Doors Academy, James P. & Loretta Ho Sherblom,
Mark S. & Kristin Gallagher, Lillian Anderson, Shari Wolf & Michael Axel, Victoria Parrill.
2017 Heights Performing Arts Camp Inaugural Year! Alma Theatre Performance Camp Photo.
We look forward to working with the residential and commercial communities to continue support for this and future summer camps through donations and sponsorship, keeping this camp FREE for the students. We greatly appreciate your consideration of our request and your expressed enthusiasm for this endeavor.
Questions please contact:
Celeste Cosentino, Executive Artistic Director, Ensemble Theatre.
pac@ensemble-theatre.org | 216-321-2930 (Ensemble Office).
Images below are from our Inaugural Camp's Final Performance (2017 ) in the Alma Theatre at Cain Park. Images by Gabe Shaeffer.
