Three seconds before the lights go down.
A converted barn theater surrounded by oak trees. Real lumber. Real lighting rigs. Real confidence — built one scene at a time.
Cast Yourself ✨
Drag a costume piece onto the stage to discover your role
Works on touch screens too — tap & hold to drag
Stories from the wings
My daughter came home after the first week and said, 'Mom, I think I actually have a voice.' I cried in the car for twenty minutes.
Priya Ramaswamy
We homeschool, so social confidence is always on my mind. After two weeks at Curtain, Theo directed his little siblings in a kitchen-table performance of his own script. Unprompted.
Catherine Whitmore
I'm a drama teacher. I've seen a hundred summer programs. Curtain is the only one where the kids leave with an actual skill — not just a participation trophy.
James Okonkwo
Four tracks. One barn.
Infinite stories.
Musical Theater
- Diaphragm projection & breath work
- Character-driven song interpretation
- Choreography with a working choreographer
- Full musical production final weekend
🎯 Perform a full role in a ticketed show
- Set construction with real lumber & tools
- Stage lighting rig programming
- Costume design & hand-sewing
- Technical direction for camp productions
Improv Troupe
- Short-form improv games & structures
- Character physicality & status play
- Ensemble listening & trust exercises
- Harold long-form narrative improv
🎯 Perform a live improv show for families
Young Playwrights
- Story structure & dramatic tension
- Dialogue workshop with read-alouds
- Script revision with peer dramaturgs
- Original 10-minute play staged reading
🎯 Have your play performed by fellow campers
Working theater professionals. Actual humans.
Not interns. Not generalists. Every counselor has a real career in theater — and a reason they come back every summer.
Simone has spent fifteen years teaching voice to kids who were told they couldn't sing. She disagrees with that assessment.
Simone Delacroix
Musical Theater Director
MFA, NYU Tisch · Off-Broadway: "Cloudbusting" (2023) · Regional: Goodspeed, Papermill
Marcus built his first set at age twelve using scrap wood from his grandfather's garage. He's been building things ever since.
Marcus Thibodeaux
Technical Director
IATSE Local 1 · Broadway: "Hamilton" (2018–2021) · Scenic Charge: Atlantic Theater Company
Yuki believes improv is just listening with your whole body. She makes seven-year-olds believe it too.
Yuki Nakamura
Improv & Ensemble Lead
Second City Chicago (2017–2022) · UCB Mainstage · Faculty, Northwestern Theatre
Desmond writes plays about ordinary people in extraordinary moments. He teaches kids to do the same.
Desmond Osei-Bonsu
Playwright-in-Residence
Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow · Published: "The Distance Between Stars" (Dramatists Play Service) · Yale School of Drama
Every counselor is background-checked, CPR-certified, and trained in youth safeguarding.
Staff ratio is 1:6 for ages 7–10 and 1:8 for ages 11–17. A registered nurse is on-site for all sessions.
The wall of what they made.
Find Their Perfect Role
Five questions. One recommendation. Zero guessing.