Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Curtains Up!
Ages 9-12
April 20 – 24, 2026
10:00 – 2:30 (including lunch break)
Do you love to imagine and create your own stories? Do you love to perform? Join Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater for a week-long camp to learn all about the ins and outs of making a performance, create your own show with your peers, and most of all: have fun!
Students will unlock their imagination through methods including improvisation, character work, and scene analysis to create their very own original play with their classmates, under the supervision of teaching artists Brian Evans and Paige O’Connor. This course is ideal for students of all levels, who show interest in the performing arts, writing, directing, or all of the above! Curtains up!
Instructors:
Paige O’Connor is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied theater at the New Studio On Broadway, as well as Chicago’s The Second City. She has performed in Cape Cod with Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (The Revolutionists, Reefer Madness, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged) , Harbor Stage Company (Liv at Sea) ,and Payomet Performing Arts Center (Under The Radar). She is passionate about making theater accessible to all, and values her work as a teaching artist in pursuit of this goal.
Brian Lore Evans is a theatre maker based on Cape Cod. Brian previously worked as an educator and teaching artist in New York and at Wheelock Family Theatre. Here on Cape he has directed at Harwich Junior Theatre and acted here on the Julie Harris stage! Brian is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, where he received his Master’s Degree in Advanced Theatre Studies. Brian brings his diverse theatre background and training to his own teaching style, encouraging students to find what works best for them and use it in the pursuit of telling stories!
KIDS PLAYS at WHAT
Ages 13-18
April 20 – 24, 2026
10:00 – 2:30 PM (including lunch break)
Come join theater maker Cody Sullivan for a week-long workshop creating a play from scratch! Students will spend five days brainstorming, plotting out our narrative, and writing the script as a group. We will create a set, get in costumes and rehearse this play in preparation for a performance for friends and family on the WHAT stage on the last day of class.
Instructor:
Cody Sullivan is a theater maker based in Provincetown MA. His theater practice began in 2012 when he started studying improvisation at ImprovBoston in 2012. In 2014, he graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and moved to Chicago to study at the iO Theater. While in Chicago he was a house performer at the iO as well as a contributing writer for Cards Against Humanity. Cody moved to Provincetown in 2019. In 2022 he wrote his solo play TOWN MEETING, which had two sold out runs at the Provincetown Theater in 2024. In June 2023, he began his theater company CODY PLAYS, which stages new plays written for a different group from Provincetown’s community at the Gifford House. Cody is the Provincetown Theater Playwright in Residence for 2025.
Tuition for each class is $100. Full scholarships are available.
TO REGISTER or to request more information: contact Tia Scalcione at tia@what.org or 508-349-9428 x 108