The theater department is looking to shine the spotlight on a different type of class for summer session: a theater intensive.

The summer intensive, called “the Theater Camp,” will be a six-week class offered to any student above 9th grade.

The camp will teach all things production including acting, stage building, marketing, costume construction and directing. At the conclusion of the summer session, students will take all their skills to produce a small performance.

“It’s a completely student run production, but [it] also allows [them] to learn different techniques of technical theater,” said Katie Laris, co-chair of the theater arts department. “I think it will be amazing.”

The course will be taught by stage design teacher Patricia Frank and costume and makeup design teacher, Pamela Shaw. In recent years, Shaw was recognized for her assistant costume designer position in the Academy Award winning picture, The Artist.

To ease some of the difficulty off of the theater camp students, a professional production will be chosen to perform, said Frank. It will be then become the students’ responsibility to create a smooth, enjoyable play for an audience.

“We want to give them the opportunity to be a designer,” said Frank, theater instructor and leader in the theater camp class. “They will make the show their own.”

As an additional perk, all high school students interested in being involved will be eligible for concurrent enrollment, a process through which the students can be enrolled at both the high school and City College campus.

If the high school student is accepted, all class tuition will be waived for the theater program.

Because of the great range in age availability for the class, it is designed to include all types of people from an assortment of different backgrounds, giving the production a unique twist.

“We are hoping to have currently [enrolled] students participate in the camp too,” said Frank, referring to some of her standout students in production classes. “It will be total student involvement.”

Class instructors are looking to have 20 to 25 students enrolled in the course.

To be admitted into the program, students must contact production assistant Stephanie Miller through e-mail, phone or in person. Then, an application will be given that will allow the student to show what their particular interests are in the production process.

The class is listed as a Theater Production class on the Pipeline Class Schedule list and an add code is needed to enroll.