BOQUET RIVER THEATRE FESTIVAL

A Not-for-Profit Summer Theatre Company of Kids
P.O. Box 701 Willsboro, New York 12996 BRTFKids@aol.com www.BRTF.com

The Boquet River Theatre Festival was created in 1993 to provide young people with theatrical training in performance, playwriting, set and costume design. Every August we produce an original full-length musical, custom-written by our Artistic Director for our performing company of more than two dozen local Adirondack kids, ages 7 to 14+. We are a not-for-profit 501c3 organization.

BRTF plays project enlightening, humanistic messages. Our themes stress the importance of honesty, generosity, integrity, kindness, compassion, good will, humor, and respect for the earth and its inhabitants.

All young people who happily agree to adhere to our participation guidelines are admitted into the program. Summer registration is $100 per child; this sole fee is confidentially waived in any case of financial hardship.

We are based in Willsboro (our office) and Whallonsburg (our theatre). Our cast, staff, volunteer assistants and audience come from seven surrounding Adirondack towns.

The BRTF is enthusiastically supported by the dedicated parents of our young participants, and by many other local adults and teenagers, who contribute their time and talents, professional services, goods and money to the program. For the past eleven years, we've received generous grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, regional businesses and individual benefactors. We keep our ticket prices at an affordably low family rate, and our packed audience of 600+ spans from infants to the elderly. Each delightful, educational BRTF production is a genuine community collaboration. We're also pleased to offer well-paying summer jobs to adult artists and local teenagers.

Our purpose is to encourage young people to exercise their creative, imaginative, expressive gifts through a theatrical medium under the inspired guidance of our accomplished artistic staff and devoted volunteers. We hope to enhance the self-esteem of our kids by teaching them that if together they work hard on productions they care about and love, they will find great joy and personal reward in the process.

BRTF kids develop valuable skills and qualities each summer season, including artistic discipline, physical grace, diligence, diction, focus, flexibility, cooperation, commitment, patience, respect and good manners. All can be applied in their scholastic and personal lives. Most importantly, our cast and staff have lots of fun on and off the stage - as together we enjoy this enriching collaborative art form!

BRTF Summer 2005 Artistic Staff
Erika Stadtlander, Founding Artistic Director, Resident Playwright and Composer
Darcey Hurlburt, Founding Collaborative Director and Stage Manager
Carol Bachand, Musical Director Jim Carroll, Technical Director
Glen Van Wie, Set Designer Sara Hurlburt, Directors' Assistant
Sarah Gibbs, Directors' Assistant Haley Meguid, Directors' Assistant

BRTF 2005 Board of Directors
Kenda James, Board President Robin Pierce, Board Treasurer
Sue Allott, Board Secretary Dana Gibbs Sue Swires Jim Carroll
Suzanne Denton Tito Melendez Erika Stadtlander

BRTF Original Musical Productions, Written and Directed by Erika Stadtlander
Nimbly Woo - 1993 Ragamuffins - 1994 I Am a Bird That Must Sing - 1995
Luciano Bugarotti and the Book of Bugs - 1995 Fair Friend - 1996
A Little Peace, A Little Love - 1997 Ragamuffins - 1998 Interaction - 1999
A Thousand Shades of Gray - 2000 Fourfold Gift - 2001 Sing to the Moon! - 2002
Ragamuffins - 2003 Interaction - 2004

To hear a selection of songs from our musicals, please go to: www.SingToTheMoon.com