Triple Threat Theater Camp Showcase Comes to WHS

Fifty youngsters from the New Hampshire Seacoast to Boston will be showcasing their talents during a performance at Windham High School Friday, July 26.

The aspiring young performers, ages 6 to 17, will have spent three weeks at the Triple Threat Theater Camp at the Londonderry Dance Academy under the direction of the camp’s founder Kate Mullen.

“We have Broadway veterans who come each year to teach the camp,” Mullen said. “The camp has become so well-received because of its professionalism, we had to actually turn away some children this summer.”

Now in its 11th year, Triple Threat Theater Camp campers find themselves surrounded by a family of fellow artists who share their vision and support their goals. The multi-talented staff promotes individual expression while simultaneously instilling group cohesion.

Mullen recently completed double masters degrees at New York University in clinical social work and drama therapy. She also serves as the director of New England Dance Ensemble's Story Dance Touring Company.

Mullen is a graduate of the famed American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and has studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the Michael Howard Studio in New York City.

Mullen resides on the upper west side in New York City and works in therapeutic and creative modalities with urban youth.

This year’s line-up of Triple Threat Theater Camp teachers also includes General McArthur Hambrick who studied dance at the American Ballet Theatre, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre School.

Hambrick’s musical theater credits include both the Broadway and National touring companies of Cats, Miss Saigon, and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Phantom of the Opera.

Hambrick is also the founder and director of the Joyful Noise Choral Ensemble. Most recently Mr. Hambrick performed in the revival of Martha Clarke’s acclaimed, Garden of Earthly Delights in New York City.

Teacher Jill Gorrie is on the faculty at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and CAP21 in NYC and frequently teaches master classes throughout the U.S. as well as guest teaching in South Africa, Canada, Germany and Italy.

Gorrie is a founder and artistic director of Commonground Travel that offers unique performance and educational opportunities for young dancers in Europe.

Additional staff of Triple Threat Theater include music theater performers Maria LaRossa and Ginamaria Trello; and Edward Carignan, who is currently directing a production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” in Boston.

Triple Threat Theater Camp offers students “The Broadway Edge.”

Daily classes include acting, theater dance, voice and production.

Campers also participate in traditional activities as well such as arts and crafts and outdoor activities. Other extracurricular activities include a professional headshot session, stage makeup, audition, technique, a trip to see a musical, a pool party and barbecue.

The students were cast in various vignettes for the final show that is a Broadway review. The show will have vignettes from the musicals “Spring Awakening,” “13 the Musical,” Pippin,” “Honk!,” and “The Sound of Music.”

The show is free and open to the public. It takes place Friday, July 26, at 7 p.m., in the Windham High School Theater. Reservations can be made for larger groups by emailing londonderrydance@gmail.com.