Take center stage! Spend a week this summer with the Tony Award-wining Alliance Theatre. With a variety of drama camps for rising grades 1-8 at The Forest School in Fayetteville, your young actor will build character, grow confidence, and exercise imagination.
Alliance camps focus on the journey of learning, encouraging students to embrace their unique creative expression while developing essential life skills. Through engaging activities, they’ll:
Build Character: Discover teamwork, empathy, and resilience.
Grow Confidence: Find their voice and feel empowered in any setting.
Nurture Creativity: Explore their imaginations through acting, storytelling, and more.
Each camp is tailored to help students learn and grow while having fun, culminating in a short performance for friends and family that highlights their progress—not perfection.
Location: The Forest School Offered in partnership with Trilith Institute
Rising Grades 1-8 // June 9-13, June 30 – July 3 & July 21-25
Join us over spring break for a 5-day hands-on workshop where you’ll master the art of storytelling through acting and sound design. Whether you dream of becoming a voice actor, writing audio dramas, or being the next great on-air talent this workshop will give you the tools to make it happen!
What You’ll Learn:
Day 1: Improv & Acting – Build confidence, explore character dynamics, and sharpen your storytelling skills through fun improvisation exercises.
Day 2: Voice Acting – Experiment with vocal techniques, character voices, and performance skills to bring your story to life.
Day 3: Storytelling Basics – Learn how to craft compelling narratives, develop characters, and structure stories that captivate an audience.
Day 4 & 5: Sound Engineering & Recording Sessions – Dive into the world of sound effects, music, and audio mixing to enhance your storytelling. Put everything together as you record audio for commercials, audio dramas, and more!
Trilith Institute’s Silent Film experience provides high school students with the opportunity to collaborate in developing original short films without the use of dialogue or sync sound while filming their projects. This practice will allow students to gain an understanding of how a compelling story can be told wholly through the visual aspects of filmmaking. By the end of the 3-day workshop, students will have created an original silent short film with their peers.
Family Storytelling is for ages 2-6 years and their grown-ups
Bring stories to life in this side-by-side drama class for families. Learn different techniques for telling stories at home and open the door to a lifelong love of playing and learning together.
Unleash Your Inner Artist at Trilith Institute’s Halloween Special Effects Makeup Workshop!
Get ready to elevate your Halloween costume game with our hands-on Special Effects Makeup Workshop! Join us on October 30th from 4-8 PM to learn the art of creating realistic wound makeup from a professional makeup artist.
What to Expect:
Demonstration: Watch a pro create a fictional character with prosthetics and makeup.
Hands-On Learning: Dive into the world of special effects as you master techniques to create realistic wounds and scars.
Expert Guidance: Our skilled makeup artist will walk you through each step, ensuring you leave with pro tips and tricks.
Take-Home Kit: You’ll receive a makeup kit packed with all the essentials to recreate your looks at home—perfect for Halloween and beyond!
Lunch Provided: We will have pizza available for all participants. If you have allergies or dietary restrictions, please bring your own lunch.
Allergy Note: Materials containing latex will be used during this workshop.
Trilith Institute’s Winter Writers Workshop series is an opportunity for young screenwriters to develop their own scripts while working closely with screenwriting experts and building a community of creative peers.
In the first weekend of the series (December 7-8), students will discuss the qualities of compelling storytelling, analyze popular PG-13 movies and television, and develop an outline for their own original screenplay. At the end of the weekend, students will be encouraged to go off on their own and write a first draft of their script in the 6-week window between the first and second session of the workshop series.
Participants will have their scripts workshopped in the second weekend of the series (January 18-19) and will be encouraged to revise their scripts after receiving feedback from their peers and the screenwriting experts. This second weekend will also include a discussion of what options writers typically have after completing the script (submitting to competitions and festivals, pitching to producers/investors, going into independent production, etc.).
Participants in the Winter Writers Workshop will have the chance to enter their script into a competition. Two winners will receive free admission to one week of Trilith Institute’s Summer Camps in 2025.
Babies: Off-Book! is for 0-24 month olds and their grown-ups.
Shake up your weekly routine with this sensory story time for infants and toddlers. Families will bring their favorite stories to life through rhyme, song, and tactile props. Alliance Theatre teaching artists will guide you through a multi-sensory experience engaging the voice, body, and imagination.
Campers will work with expert film editors to learn the basics of post-production and non-linear film editing. Campers will learn through practical application, taking the footage recorded in the previous Production Camp and cutting it together into a completed short film that will be premiered at the Script to Screen Film Festival at the end of the summer.
Schedule/topics covered:
Using Premiere Pro for non-linear film editing
Best practices for editors
How to choose the best take
Working with directors to achieve the desired final cut
Color grading
Creating titles
Adding visual effects
Sound editing
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2 Camps – 5% discount
3 Camps – 10% discount
4 Camps – 15% discount
Must be purchased at the same time, discount will appear in cart
See what it’s like to develop a story in a TV Writer’s Room. This camp will take campers through the process of “breaking story” and developing an episodic series. Campers will work with expert screenwriters to learn how to collaborate with a team to build a long-form story, coming up with a concept for the show as a group, and then breaking into small teams to each write an episode. Campers will also learn about what a career in TV writing is like, how writers pitch a TV show to networks, and much more. By the end of camp, your Writers Room Team will have written a multi-episode show. At the end of camp Script to Screen Film Festival, a few campers will be chosen to “pitch” the show and share a synopsis of each episode.
Topics covered:
Storytelling basics
Screenplay formatting
Screenwriting software
Writing workshop etiquette
The difference between writing for film and TV
How to structure a TV pilot and subsequent episodes
Collaborative storytelling
How to pitch a TV show
What careers in TV writing look like
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2 Camps – 5% discount
3 Camps – 10% discount
4 Camps – 15% discount
Must be purchased at the same time, discount will appear in cart.
The Trilith Institute 365 Fund supports all aspects of the 501(c)(3) organization.
$250 pays for a single episode of the Trilith Institute Talks podcast. $500 feeds cast and crew for one Creative Excellence Fellowship Grant film $650 provides a one-week scholarship to the Script to Screen Summer Camp $1000 covers a Dinner With… events where students talk with industry experts over dinner
