2025 Youth Summer Program
Children's Musical Theatre Workshop
Entering grades 1-4 in fall 2025.
Program Description
Session Dates
June 23 – June 27, 2025 (Full)
July 7 – July 11, 2025
July 14 – July 18, 2025 (Full)
- Monday – Friday: 9 AM – 3 PM
- Showcases will be presented on Friday of the session at 2:30 PM
The children’s program offers students opportunities to learn and explore the world of musical theatre. Daily classes feature theatre games, dance combinations, music appreciation, singing, visual arts and much, much more. A showcase of student work is held on the final day of the program.
2025 Tuition
- $450 (Non-Refundable)
Registration
Active conservatory students receive early registration access on Thursday, February 20 at 12 PM. Registration opens to the public on Friday, February 21 at 12 PM.
At the time of registration, you may choose to pay just the $100 deposit or the full tuition. Beginning June 1, the full tuition is due at the time of registration. Please fill in all requested information about your student online. Once you complete your order, you will have registered your student. Additional registration material requests will be included in your registration order confirmation email. You can also register by phone at 877.571.7469. Once spaces are filled, a wait list will be made available. To discuss payment options, contact Chip Miller at 508.471.1763.
Registration for all three sessions is full. Click below to sign up for the wait list.
Schedule
| Dates | Schedule |
|---|---|
| Thursday, February 20, 2025 at noon | Registration Opens for Conservatory Students |
| Friday, February 21, 2025 at noon | Registration Opens for the Public |
| Wednesday, May 31, 2025 | Balances and Additional Registration Materials are Due |
YSP Child Schedule
| Day | Schedule |
|---|---|
| Monday | Program Begins - Monday- Friday: |
| Friday | Showcase of Student Work at 2:30 PM |
Meet Our Educators
Session I and III (June 23-27 and July 14-18)
Kyle Maxwell (Director/Acting Instructor)
Kyle Maxwell (he/him/his) is an actor and writer born and raised in Worcester, MA. He is excited to return to his hometown after a decade of living and working in New York City. He holds an MFA in acting from the University of Tennessee and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. New York City stage credits include off-Broadway roles as Tom/Berry/Knef (Radium Girls), Warwick (Henry VI, Part 3) and Montano (Othello). Regional credits include Lenny (Of Mice and Men), Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Horatio (Hamlet), Jemmy Campbell/John Arscott (Our Country’s Good), Christmas Present (A Christmas Carol), Chiron (Titus Andronicus) and Todd in the world premiere of The Open Hand. Television credits include a featured comedic dance on “Saturday Night Live.” Active in stand-up and improvisational comedy, Maxwell studied improv at ImprovBoston and the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. His stand-up credits include Catch a Rising Star, The Comedy Studio in Boston, MA, and the Comedy Connection in Providence, RI. His writing credits include the short film “7 Rising,” as well as the plays Three Decker and Love, in a Violent Year, which premiered at the New York Theatre Festival in 2023, where it was nominated for Best Play.
Katrina McCormick (Dance Instructor)
Katrina studied ballet at Boston Ballet and Ballet Theatre of Boston. Katrina performed throughout the region with Ballet Theatre’s Youthworks. She has performed in The Nutcracker with both Boston Ballet and Ballet Theatre of Boston. She has acted as Ballet Mistress and Artistic Director of the Nutcracker at a local dance studio. Katrina is the mother of 3 young children, so she is thrilled to be sharing and teaching her passion of ballet again.
Cassie Donegan (Music Instructor)
Cassie Donegan (she/her/hers) is an accomplished performer, educator, and director with a combined 18 years of professional experience in her career. She attended Belmont University in their award winning Bachelor of Fine Arts Musical Theatre program. Post college, she has had the privilege of traveling the country performing at incredible venues with some of the industry’s finest. Some career highlights include Sandy (Grease), Doralee Rhodes (9 to 5), Carrie White (Carrie), Elle Woods (Legally Blonde), Sophie (Mamma Mia!), Narrator (Joseph…Dreamcoat), Jane (Tarzan), and more! She recently was seen starring alongside the Emmy, Grammy, and 6 time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in the world premiere of the new musical Sticks and Stones. When not performing, Cassie can be seen on networks such as Amazon Prime, TUBI, TBN, CBS, and Discovery I.D., in a variety of episodic shows and films as well as in multiple local and national TV commercials. Cassie loves working behind the table as well. She has choreographed, directed, and music directed numerous shows and programs both educationally and professionally. Her students have won numerous awards and can be seen on stages and screens as well as working on their crafts in some of the country’s top collegiate performance programs. When not working, you can find her eating sushi and cuddling, hiking, or in the ocean with her dogs! She is thrilled to be joining the Hanover Conservatory family and have the opportunity to pour into the lives of our next generation of performers.
Session II (July 7-11)
Kyle Maxwell (Director/Acting Instructor)
Kyle Maxwell (he/him/his) is an actor and writer born and raised in Worcester, MA. He is excited to return to his hometown after a decade of living and working in New York City. He holds an MFA in acting from the University of Tennessee and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. New York City stage credits include off-Broadway roles as Tom/Berry/Knef (Radium Girls), Warwick (Henry VI, Part 3) and Montano (Othello). Regional credits include Lenny (Of Mice and Men), Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Horatio (Hamlet), Jemmy Campbell/John Arscott (Our Country’s Good), Christmas Present (A Christmas Carol), Chiron (Titus Andronicus) and Todd in the world premiere of The Open Hand. Television credits include a featured comedic dance on “Saturday Night Live.” Active in stand-up and improvisational comedy, Maxwell studied improv at ImprovBoston and the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. His stand-up credits include Catch a Rising Star, The Comedy Studio in Boston, MA, and the Comedy Connection in Providence, RI. His writing credits include the short film “7 Rising,” as well as the plays Three Decker and Love, in a Violent Year, which premiered at the New York Theatre Festival in 2023, where it was nominated for Best Play.
Peter Mansfield (Dance Instructor)
Peter Mansfield is a West Haven, Connecticut native who was born with a passion for dance. Peter attended the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT during high school in the dance program and is a graduate from Dean College with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Associate Degree in Exercise Science. Peter has experienced the professional world of dance by dancing with the Paul Taylor II Dance Company during their residency at Yale University and being a current company member with the Urbanity Dance Company of Boston, MA. He has also worked with performers and choreographers such as Aubrey Lynch, Levi Marsmen, Todd Shanks, Kristina Berger, Jill Silverman, Kurt Douglas and Stephan Ursprung. He aspires to use all these experiences to expand his career in the professional dance world. He has been awarded numerous scholarships for dance and performing including the Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance scholarship and the Urbanity Dance Summer Intensive Scholarship. Peter has experience dancing in all styles of dance, but his greatest loves are ballet and modern.
Travis Benoit (Music Instructor)
Travis Benoit, tenor, from Worcester, MA received his Master of Music Degree from The Manhattan School of Music in the spring of 2020. Previous credits include: Pilate in Arvo Pärt’s Passio, The Tenor Solos with Music Worcester, CONCORA in Handel’s Messiah, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation (Uriel) with The Providence Singers, The Passion According to Saint Luke (The Evangelist) Composer William David Cooper’s New Work, The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic) with The Valley light Opera Company, La Traviata (Gastone) with The Manhattan School of Music’s Opera Repertoire Ensemble, I due timidi (Dottore Sinisgalli) in the 2018 Manhattan School of Music main stage production and Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) with The Nahant Music Festival as a vocal apprentice. Scene work includes Così fan tutte (Ferrando), La Rondine (Prunier) and L’elesir d’amore (Nemorino). In September of 2021, Benoit performed a recital featuring Gerald Finzi’s “A Young Man’s Exhortation” with Mark Mummert, vocal instructor at The Hanover Theatre Conservatory, at the BrickBox Theater in downtown Worcester. Benoit was selected to sing in The Thomas Hampson Masterclass hosted by MSM in 2019. In 2017 Benoit won the Worcester Schubertiade Vocal competition with the first-place college vocal division prize. Benoit is his alma mater’s Concerto competition winner, which gave him a 15-minute performance with the Gordon College Symphony Orchestra. There he performed a program of Mozart Concert Arias. Benoit’s current ensembles include EnsembleNYC, CONCORA, The Providence Singers, The Worcester Chorus, Vox Futura and Magnificat Sacred Music Institute’s Cor Unum Singers.
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