Presenting THEATRE THREE’s nineteenth annual all-student musical productions. Students will meet for three hours a day, four days a week, with a director, musical director, and choreographer, learning the essentials for the creation of a musical. The program culminates in two performances. Students receive a script, music, and a t-shirt as part of their camp membership.
Each Musical Theatre Factory session is limited to 40 students.
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Musical Theatre Factory
presents
Musical Theatre Factory I
Ages 9 – 12
Performances:
Monday, August 3rd
4:00 & 7:00 pm
Musical Theatre Factory II
Ages 13 – 17
Performances:
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00 & 7:00 pm
Directors/Choreographers:
Oya Bangura & Kiernan Urso
Musical Director: Jeffrey Hoffman
Production Assistant: Alexa Eichinger
Camps run July 6th – 30th
Mondays – Thursdays
Faculty
SARI FELDMAN (Director/Choreographer) Founding staff member of THEATRE THREE’s Musical Theatre Factory (2004). Twenty year history with THEATRE THREE involves performing in and choreographing dozens of productions including SOMETHING ROTTEN, THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES, MAMMA MIA!, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, THE PAJAMA GAME, SWEENEY TODD, LES MISÉRABLES and RESPECT. Two seasons (2005-2007) member of THEATRE THREE’s Acting Company with countless credits on Long Island and across the country. Credits include THE BOY FROM OZ (Liza), LEGALLY BLONDE (Paulette), THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (Kitty), WEST SIDE STORY (Anybodys), A CHORUS LINE (Morales), SWEET CHARITY (Nickie), THE WEDDING SINGER (Holly), etc. For Troika Entertainment, traveled North America performing in the longest running and most popular Broadway production in history, CATS (Sillabub), directed by Broadway Dance Supervisor Richard Stafford, with original Tony-nominated choreography by Gillian Lynne. For NETworks Presentations, actor/dance captain and associate choreographer for national tour of ANNIE, directed by Tony, Emmy, and Grammy award winner Martin Charnin. Founder/director of Theatrics Performing Arts, originally in Miller Place, now Setauket (www.theatricsperformingarts.com), a musical theatre program for ages four and up.
OYA BANGURA (Director/Choreographer) is originally from West Africa, Sierra Leone. Her early dance training was received at The United Nations International School and as a scholarship student with Jacques d’Amboise and his National Dance Institute before heading to Boston University. She holds a MA in Dance Education from NYU Steinhardt. Oya has appeared at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center’s Outdoor Festivals, American Ballet Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Rodotto and Fenice. She has performed as the Principal choreographer/ dancer/actor in an Off Broadway production written, directed and produced by Jahidah Diaab. Oya’s passion is being Co-Founder of Project MOVE, an Arts in Education organization charged with the mission of nurturing the leaders of tomorrow, while bringing communities together through the Arts. Making changes, one heartbeat at a time. She is elated to be in her 15th season with THEATRE THREE’s Musical Theatre Factory.
KIERNAN URSO (Director/Choreographer) is a proud THEATRE THREE Company Member and Children’s Theatre choreographer. BFA in Acting from Western Connecticut State University (Class of 2025). THEATRE THREE choreography credits include Winnie-the-Pooh, The Frog Prince, The Fantasmix, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, and Alice’s Most Decidedly Unusual Adventures in Wonderland. THEATRE THREE performance credits include GODSPELL (“We Beseech Thee”), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Eugene), A Christmas Carol (Young Scrooge), James and The Giant Peach (James), and JOSEPH … (Benjamin). Other credits include SCOPE Education Services’ Summer Musical Theater Program (2024-present) and three years of working as a stage manager/production assistant for the Musical Theatre Factory.
JEFFREY HOFFMAN (Musical Director) Marking fifty years as a professional musical director and ten years as THEATRE THREE’s Resident Musical Director. Veteran of hundreds of musicals as musical director, director, and actor. Shared the stage as conductor/pianist for Joe Piscopo, Phyllis Diller, David Brenner, Red Buttons, Rip Taylor, Joan Rivers, Tony Martin, and Cyd Charisse. Worked as an accompanist, arranger, and conductor in the theatre and variety of performing worlds. Twenty-eight years as a music educator in the public school system while continuing his work in professional theatre. House Musical Director for THEATRE THREE for the past six seasons, with productions including SOMETHING ROTTEN, SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM, GUYS AND DOLLS, SHREK THE MUSICAL, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, NINE, WIZARD OF OZ, GREASE, MAMMA MIA!, and THE FANTASTICKS, in which he also portrayed Hucklebee. Other Musical Theatre credits include SWEENEY TODD, SPAMALOT, SINGING IN THE RAIN and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Founder/Director of Actors Care Theatre, a charitable production company.
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JEFFREY SANZEL (Executive Artistic Director) BFA in Acting & Directing from Conservatory at SUNY Purchase. With THEATRE THREE since 1989. Appointed Artistic Director July 1993. Director of over two hundred productions including the 2015 Musical Theatre Factory II’s productions of GODSPELL, JR. and BEETLEJUICE, JR.