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Summer Camps

Summer camps are where imagination takes center stage! ETC camps offer a fun, supportive environment to explore acting, storytelling, improvisation, filmmaking, and more. Guided by professional Teaching Artists, campers build confidence, foster creativity, and form lasting friendships.

 

Click on any camp in the calendar grid for more details and to register for each session (or use the dropdowns below to filter by location, age, or topic).

Educational Theatre Company Summer Camp Calendar

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​​He was excited to go to camp each day, and always in a good mood when we picked him up... He left feeling a sense of accomplishment and pride, and it definitely improved his confidence.

- ETC Beginnings Parent

Summer 2025 info below. Use dropdowns to filter results.

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ETC Beginnings

Season Explorers

June 16 - June 20 (No Camp June 19)

Pre K-K

Location:

Etz Hayim Synagogue

STEAM
STEAM

Fee Core Program:

$230

Cancelled - Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall - no matter the season we’ll explore them all!
ETC Beginnings offers an enriching experience for preschoolers to learn basic acting skills, and use their bodies, voices and imaginations to create exciting characters. The day includes acting games, story creation, arts & crafts, and outdoor time. A sharing will be held Friday, June 20th.

Session 1

ETC Beginnings

Build it Up!

June 23 - June 27

Pre K-K

Location:

Cardinal Elementary School

STEAM
STEAM

Fee Core Program:

$290

Construct whatever you can imagine from the ground up. ETC Beginnings offers an enriching experience for preschoolers to learn basic acting skills, and use their bodies, voices and imaginations to create exciting characters. The day includes acting games, story creation, arts & crafts, and outdoor time. A sharing will be held Friday, June 27th.

Session 1

Creative Drama

Antartic Animals

June 23 - June 27

K-2nd

Location:

Cardinal Elementary School

STEAM
STEAM

Fee Core Program:

$425

Pack your parka and head south as you explore the land of seals, penguins and whales. Through improvisation, storytelling, art projects, theatre games & rehearsals, campers learn acting basics. Students will collaborate with peers and discover the joy of performing. A sharing will be held on Friday, June 27th.

Session 1-3

Much Ado About Nothing:

A Shakespeare Teen Intensive

June 23 - July 11 ( No Camp July 4)

7th-12th

Location:

Cardinal Elementary School

Shakespeare
Shakespeare

Fee Core Program:

$895

Come act and direct Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing with a musical twist! Deepen your understanding of classical text, and round out theatre skills, as you rehearse and perform in our staff-directed, Shakespeare production. Teens get on-the-job theatre and educational training as you learn to direct younger campers in scenes by the bard. You’ll get to show off all you’ve learned to friends and family on Friday, July 11th.

Session 1

Falls Church Camps

Outer Space Adventures!

June 23 - June 27

6yrs - 9yrs

Location:

Falls Church Meridian High School

STEAM
STEAM

Fee Core Program:

$405

3,2,1...BLASTOFF! With Educational Theatre Company, campers become space explorers through improvisation, imagination, storytelling, theatre games & art projects. Boldly go on adventures to collaborate with peers and discover the joy of performing as you explore strange new worlds with ETC’s Professional Teaching Artists. Family and friends are invited to come and travel with us on the last day of camp, Friday, June 27th. Falls Church Summer Camp registration opens Feb. 18 for residents & Feb. 25 for non-residents.

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The Educational Theatre Company is supported in part by a grant from the Virginia Commission of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The company is also supported in part by the Arlington Cultural Affairs Division of Arlington Economic Development and the Arlington Commission for the Arts.

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