Camp Sunshine

• Assistant Teacher for Dirt Road Theater's summer skills and production camps 

• Produced for Dirt Road Theater's 2-Week Production Camp, July 2022

CREATIVE TEAM

Director & Writer - Maren Langdon Spillane

Music Director & Composer - Savannah Yates

Technical Director - Dominic Spillane

Story devised by Dirt Road Theater's Spring 2022 Play Creation Class

Camp Sunshine is a summer camp that prides itself on promoting happiness and positivity for all, but naturally…that doesn’t always work out. Our story involves a group of campers who don’t quite fit that mold. When an “extraterrestrial event” occurs and a being who is part of the sun itself arrives on earth in search of meaning, it’s up to the kids at Camp Sunshine to decide what to do. Unfortunately, they aren’t the only ones involved. The sun being, named Ze, has been followed to Earth by a trio of unusual aliens with high hopes of capturing some sun for their home planet. As characters- campers and aliens alike- struggle to find their place and to create connections, Ze is finally able to teach everyone the true meaning of sunshine.

SONG LIST

1. Ze’s Theme 

2. Feel the Sunshine/Anywhere But Here

3. Three Little Minnows #1 

4. How to be Human

5. Here’s the Situation

6. You Get Me 

7. Three Little Minnows #2  

8. Ze’s Theme Reprise and Act Finale

9. Three Little Minnows #3 

10. Three Little Minnows #4 

11. Before It’s Too Late

12. That’s What Camp Is For 

13. Goodbye Planet Earth

14. Finale Pageant