Summer fun and children’s theater come together each year at the Philip Coltoff Center’s New Acting Company Summer Camp. The two-week intensive theater camp, scheduled in July, attracts theatrically-inclined children (age 7-14). In the course of each two week camp, students will create an original play with their fellow campers.
A wonderful way to channel their energy and creativity, the camp encourages self-expression and a sense of community between young acting peers. The children are taught everything from acting, set design/building and sound/lighting to costume design and stage make-up. The pièce de résistance of each camp is the final performance which family, friends and Village locals attend —and a fabulous time always is had by all!
Philip Coltoff Center
The Philip Coltoff Center at Greenwich Village plays a vital role in providing educational, recreational and service programs for Village families since 1892. The Center, which proudly operates under the auspices of the The Children’s Aid Society, offers a wide range of social services that include early childhood education, after-school programs and summer camp, teen and adult classes, and children’s theatre and art programming.
The Center’s mission is to be a center of Village community life, to provide dynamic, high-caliber programs and sponsor events – all with the central aim of enriching the social, cultural, creative and intellectual lives of the children, families and the Greenwich Village community at large.
