Brooklyn has wonderful summertime performing arts programs and classes for youth! And if your child loves to be onstage, then you’ll appreciate this guide to summer camps in Brooklyn that offer theater and acting programs. These terrific options will ensure that with a little help from us, you can find the perfect summer theater camp for your child. You’ll find day and specialty camps with theater opportunities in Brooklyn, including camps in Mill Basin, Marine Park, Flatbush, Park Slope, and Fort Greene.
92Y Camps
1395 Lexington Ave.; New York, NY | Upper East Side
212-415-5573
Theater is one of our weekly camp activities. We also have a one-week theatre arts intensive (Zoom-In!) where campers study choreography, singing, and show production. There are also NYC-based summer theatre classes held at 92Y.
Camp Clio
YMCA Camp Jewell 6 Prock Hill Road Colebrook, CT
984-439-2308
Camp Clio
YMCA Camp Jewell 6 Prock Hill Road Colebrook, CT
984-439-2308
Everybody has talent. At Camp Clio, theater games, improvisation, and our Talent Show can help bring out your inner star.
Camp Kids ‘N Comedy
173 W. 78 St., #5A, Upper West Side (office)
212-877-6115
Camp Kids ‘N Comedy is a program in which kids ages 10-18 learn to write and perform stand-up comedy, improv, and sketch comedy scenes. They cap off the two-week program with an original performance at the Gotham Comedy Club. Kids ‘N Comedy offers eight- or nine-week classes year-round.
Child’s Play NY
Various Locations in Brooklyn and Manhattan
347-759-6313
Child’s Play NY offers thrilling theater camps for kids excited to stretch their imaginations. Superb acting teachers in small groups lead weeklong intensives for ages 3-11. Activate imagination and learn acting in nurturing joy-filled camps. Unicorns, dragons, Harry Potter, and Mary Poppins are all part of the fun!
Mill Basin Day Camp
5945 Strickland Ave., Mill Basin
718-251-6200
Groups put on performances and talent shows for each other. Nothing like being cheered on by your friends and group. A Mill Basin Day Camp favorite!
Park Slope Day Camp
Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Carroll Gardens, and Bay Ridge
718-788-7732
In addition to our circus camp, a performing arts specialty program offering clowning, gymnastics, and circus skills, we offer musical theater, creative movement, and interactive storytelling classes to various age groups.
Stuyvesant Heights Montessori / Emmanuel Montessori of Clinton Hill
644 Macdonough St. / 36 St. James Place
347-241-7305
Campers will have the opportunity to create sets, design costumes, and work with an established acting coach who will lead improv activities and help them create individualized short skits.
Urban Explorers Day Camp
3832 Flatlands Ave.
718-951-9732
We have a SAG actor do improv classes with the children on a bi-weekly basis. Also, the younger groups go to Once Upon a Time to watch a classic children’s story acted out on stage. Older groups will go to the Museum of the Moving Image.
