Create a Play Summer Camp

Compass Rose Theater Classes and Young Actors' Studio offers musical theater, improv, master classes, and student productions. The program follows a process-based approach to theater education, in which any performance results from hard work and in-depth study of technique, and it does not seek to present a polished product until the basics of theater knowledge have been learned. Young Actors' Studio is offered to talented students who are selected by audition to participate in master classes and student productions throughout the year.

• Ages: 12–17 years old

Compass Rose Theater was founded in the spring of 2011 by Lucinda Merry-Browne as a non-profit professional teaching theater company. Its mission states a belief that inclusion enriches creativity and broadens the world of those involved, and it emphasizes an ongoing commitment to produce plays of quality and richness by hiring accomplished professional artists as well as talented students. According to its mission, the company keeps its teaching mission at the core of all its work and offers classes and workshops to students of all ages, with students working alongside professionals and being fully compensated as with the other actors.

All Compass Rose Theater faculty are teaching artists with at least a Bachelor’s Degree in theater from an accredited institution, and some faculty members have Master’s Degrees in theater. The faculty have teaching experience with a range of student populations and a depth of knowledge of how to challenge and stimulate the creative process within students individually and as an acting ensemble.

Last updated January 22, 2026.