Students take the stage in the afternoon Performing Session, culminating in an abridged production of As You Like It performed in Shakespeare’s Glen!

Registration opens in January 2024. Filmmaking, photography, journalism, and public communication classes will be offered during two sessions in July 2024.

Perform a full show in a week? Why, yes you will! During this intense week of acting, singing, and dancing students will create a full show under the direction of Mrs. Rowan. Paint sets, create props, become characters, and work as a team as you accomplish the nearly impossible, and have a blast doing it! This is a full-day camp; campers should register for both the morning and afternoon sessions.

Join is for all things Taylor Swift! We’ll be celebrating all of her Eras throughout the week. We will make friendship bracelets to trade, sunglasses to party in, and we’ll spend the days voting on our favorite Taylor Swift songs. This week will end in an epic Taylor Swift dance party. I would LOVER to have you!

It’s like Wiffleball... only with a Gruszka “curve.” Learn how to play various types of Wiffleball along with the skills needed to play each position. Hands-on coaching and skill practice will happen each day along with a daily game! Students of all skill levels are welcome to join in for an at bat and no one ever strikes out when having fun with friends at this great backyard game.

Let's recreate the popular TV show!  Use your vivid imagination to create entrees and desserts.  We will have competitions using secret mystery baskets.  All baking will be from scratch!

Interested in the technical side of theatre? Come join us in this 2-week camp as you learn how to make a show happen! We will build and paint sets, make costumes, and do crew for our junior musical performances!

Live from New York it’s…..well we aren't from NYC, but we will make our own sketch comedy show right here in Chesterfield! Sketch comedy is highly popular and draws on both improv and comedy writing skills. Many performers on SNL got their start at Improv groups such as Second City, Gotham City, UCB. Spend a week laughing, creating and exploring the realm of sketch comedy!

The emphasis is on having fun with other students who love writing and enjoying our beautiful natural surroundings while learning the elements of craft.

Join us at the 2024 MJ Performing Arts Academy Summer Camp, where campers will have the option of two different sessions per week.

Join us at the 2024 MJ Performing Arts Academy Summer Camp, where campers will have the option of two different sessions per week.

Camp Pillsbury in Owatonna, Minnesota offers campers endless opportunities to hone their skills in fun and outstanding summer camp programs. Our camp caters to campers from 6-17 years old. Campers design their own unique schedule. Our premier programs are coached by staff members accomplished in their fields of expertise. Campers will improve and focus on 3 majors they take every day for a session. The end of the session culminates in a performance day for the camp, parents and community! Camp Pillsbury provides many summer camp activities including: pop/rock band, theatre productions classes, dance, visual arts, circus, sports, cooking, extreme sports, horseback riding, magic, tech/ digital arts/ multimedia, tennis, robotics, watersports and much more.

The in-person version of the Summer Residential Program will take place in Iowa City, Iowa on the University of Iowa campus.

Ignite your creativity at the week-long creative writing camp for developing storytellers.

Students take the stage in the afternoon Performing Session, culminating in an abridged production of As You Like It performed in Shakespeare’s Glen!