Now, to be honest, though I have a degree in classical music and had been studying and performing music for well over 10 years by that point, I had never composed anything before, so I wasn’t really sure if I was the right fit. But, thankfully, I was given the chance, and once I got a taste for it, I was absolutely hooked! I was amazed that there was a program for kids, elementary school kids no less, to write a musical from scratch! The creativity! The exploration! The crazy

I've been working with ETC for almost 4 years now. I unfortunately never had the opportunity to be a camper with ETC, and I wish I could have. I did many other camps as a kid, such as Camp Arena Stage or Encore during school, but there is no program that I can say does as good a job of tending to the students’ needs and innate creative abilities as ETC. They stress the importance of providing students with the foundational tools of acting, film, or dance, as well as letting t

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