Miles Burns (Music Director)

Miles has been involved with the Rep’s youth program for a number of years now, starting as a performer in Les Miserables – S.E.. Since then he has music directed a number of youth shows including: Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., Jack and the Beanstalk, Winnie – the – Pooh, Melvin the Pelican, The Trial of Goldilocks and assistant music directed the Youth Mainstage production of Into the Woods. Miles will be the music director this summer at the Rep’s day camp, Apprentice Stage and will return for his 6th summer at PAPA Camp this August as the Music Director.

 

Sammy Reyes (Dance Director)

Sammy graduated from the University of the Arts in 2001. While at UArts, he received the Cushman Acting Award and the ensemble theater award for his outstanding achievements in dramatic arts. After college, Sammy continued his dance training with Ronen Koresh, Rennie Harris, and Kip Martin. He was rehearsal director and dance member of Dance Theater X Project, directed by Charles O. Anderson. Sammy recently completed touring the nation with television and radio artist Raven Symone’. Sammy continues to choreograph independently for numerous events including the Philadelphia Gay Pride Event at the Kimmel Center in May 2001. He has also worked with the Walnut Street Theater Educational Dept, Prince Music Theatre, 11th Hour Theater Co, the Cat Scratch Theater Company, Luna Theater and Jeffrey Marsh La Cabaret, Media Theater, Lasalle University, Drexel University, Zen One Dance Collective, Montazh Dance Company, Darimar Productions, Center City Film and Video, the singing group BADD and Lady Ru, New Jersey Garden State Arts Festival from 2004-07 and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Sammy is currently a teacher of jazz and hip-hop all over the tri-state area and has been a residential artist at Muhlenberg College 2004-2007, A professor of Hip-Hip Theater for the musical theater department at Temple University 2008-2009. A highlight of Sammy’s career occurred recently when he was nominated for a Barrymore Award in 2007 for Best Choreography for The Bombitty of Errors with 11th Hour Theater Company. Samuel is Artistic Director Sanbrooka productions in Philadelphia.

Grady O'neil (CIT Program Director/Camp Assistant)

Grady will be graduating from Bennington College with a BA double major in Drama and Education in the Spring of 2010. She has worked at camps for 9 years and will return to PAPA Camp 2010 for her 7th summer. Grady has been acting since she was 8 years old working with the Rep, Blackbox Productions, Prescott Park, Ogunquit Playhouse, The Bell Center and Garrison Players as well as productions at Bennington College. Grady has been a camp counselor for the Rep’s Apprentice Stage day camp and was the CIT Coordinator last summer at PAPA Camp is gearing up to do it again!

Alden Caple (Senior Counselor/Sign Language Elective Instructor)

Alden is extremely pumped to return for his fourth year at PAPA Camp!  He graduated in 2010 with a B.F.A in Music Theatre from the Hartt School. Since then, Alden has been working in the Seacoast area as a choreographer, actor, and private dance teacher.  Alden has worked as choreographer for Maui On Stage, Oyster River High School, Marshwood High School, and The Hartt School among others as well as leading dance workshops in African Dance, Jazz, and Music Theatre Styles. In 2009, Alden wrote, directed, and produced an original play at Manhattan Rep in NYC. Last winter he performed in the Festival of New Artists at Goodspeed Musicals in CT. Some of Alden’s favorite roles include The Mikado in The Mikado, Eddie in The Rocky Horror Show, and Jack Lamm in Lincoln in Love (Staged Reading Music By David Friedman and Book by Peter Kellog). Alden studied American Sign Language with John LeBlond of the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT.

Maria Costa (Camp Nurse)

received her Bachelors degree at George Mason University and her RN from NHTC. Maria is very excited to returning as the camp nurse at PAPA Camp, but she has been involved with the camp through her children who have been coming for the past six years. She is currently working at the DJ Bakie Elementary School as the school Nurse. She was a nurse at Portsmouth Regional Hospital for four years. She also was a substitute nurse for the Portsmouth and Hampton schools. Before she was a nurse she was a lifeguard, swim instructor, water aerobics instructor at the YMCA. Maria is very excited about being apart of such a wonderful staff and looks forward to spending time with all the campers!