ENROLLMENT OPENS APRIL 1!
Tall Tales of the Smallest State
Summer Theatre Camp at Wilbury Theatre Group
with Mycah Hogan, Wilbury's Education Programs Director
JUNE 29 - JULY 3, 2026
A week of physical comedy, clown, and wildly theatrical storytelling rooted in real Rhode Island history.
No auditions. No scripts.
Just extraordinary play.
Rhode Island is the smallest state with the biggest stories. This summer, young theater-makers will dig into the wildest true tales from RI history — the Vampire Panic of Exeter, the Great Hurricane of 1938, the Gaspee Affair, the Dorr Rebellion — and transform them into outrageously theatrical tall tales using physical comedy, clown, and ensemble devising.
Led by Mycah Hogan, Director of Education at the Wilbury (as well as Rhode Island certified K-12 educator and faculty member at Brown Trinity’s MFA Program for Actors and Directors), this camp draws on the Jacques Lecoq tradition of physical performance, and is adapted for young people ages 8-10. Campers will play improv and movement games, learn the art of the pratfall and the perfectly timed pause, explore real Rhode Island history, and work in small companies to create original short performances.
The week builds toward a Friday afternoon performance: The Rhode Island Tall Tale Festival, where each company shares their wildly reimagined version of a true RI story for families and friends.
No previous theater experience needed. Just curiosity, a willingness to play, and a love of a good story!
Led by Mycah Hogan, Director of Education at the Wilbury (as well as Rhode Island certified K-12 educator and faculty member at Brown Trinity’s MFA Program for Actors and Directors), this camp draws on the Jacques Lecoq tradition of physical performance, and is adapted for young people ages 8-10. Campers will play improv and movement games, learn the art of the pratfall and the perfectly timed pause, explore real Rhode Island history, and work in small companies to create original short performances.
The week builds toward a Friday afternoon performance: The Rhode Island Tall Tale Festival, where each company shares their wildly reimagined version of a true RI story for families and friends.
No previous theater experience needed. Just curiosity, a willingness to play, and a love of a good story!
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Mycah Hogan is an educator and theater-maker who works with performers to help them discover their best, most authentic and enthusiastic selves. He first encountered the art of clown at the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam, where Mycah began a lifelong study of the comic world with Christopher Bayes. Mycah credits a number of other world-class teachers as major impacts on both his pedagogy and his approach to making work, including Kevin Kuhlke (Acting & Directing), Mary Overlie (Six Viewpoints), Emmanuelle Delpech (Clown), Quinn Bauriedel (Improvisation), Anya Saffir (Practical Aesthetics), and Justine Wolf Williams (Play). As an actor, Mycah has appeared on stage in New York (off-Broadway: Roundabout, the New Group), regionally (Williamstown Theater Fest), and locally (The Wilbury Group, The Gamm Theater, Trinity Repertory). He has acted alongside talents like Sarah Paulson, John Cullum, Jeremy Strong, Andrew Garfield, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Roger Rees, Lily Rabe, Jason Butler Harner, and Lili Taylor, among others; and has been directed by Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner and Tony nominee Scott Elliott. He is on faculty at Brown/Trinity Rep's MFA Program, where he teaches Clown and Physical Play and is the Dean of Expeditions and Enrichment at a public charter middle school in Providence, RI. On Monday nights he can be found teaching his hit drop-in class for the Wilbury Group EMBODIED ACTION: An Acting Class for Literally Anyone.
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An award-winning, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
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