Encompass Collective Summer Retreat is here for a third summer. We are excited to welcome a new cohort of actors to The Celebration Barn.

Scholarships available. Priority to those applying by 4/15.

Bus tickets from NYC to Maine available. Apply for tickets by 4/15.

To Register and get more info click here.

Encompass Collective hosts a five-day actor intensive. The ensemble will participate in graduate school-level actor training, including movement, voice, scene study, and on-camera acting. The beautiful woods at Celebration Barn provide a secluded retreat for emerging actors interested in developing their skills for embodying character and story for stage and screen.

People of all abilities are encouraged to join. Please note that this work is full body, physical, and rigorous, but accommodations can be for every body, please reach out if there are concerns. Days will run 9am-7pm with breaks. This intensive is 5 full days.

Faculty will include internationally renowned teacher, Budi Miller and Jenelle Chu. More faculty TBA.

“Experimentation and Curiosity brought me to the Barn with Encompass Collective. My relationship with theater is a new one in comparison to the larger arc of my creative path and I knew I wanted to play/learn/rest with highly skilled practitioners. My time at Celebration Barn deeply transformed how I sharpen and sustain my artistic vessel, affirmed my journey in theater in spite of/in celebration of the place I started from, and reminded me that acting training can be FUN. My time at the Encompass Collective Retreat enriched all aspects of my life: my other artistic disciplines (dance and performance art) intrinsically got sharper and clearer after my time with Jenelle, Sohina, and Ato. If you are a life-long theater kid or an experimental performer looking for a new perspective, deeply consider spending your Summer at Celebration Barn with Encompass Collective.” - Bryanna Bradley (Summer ‘22)

“This workshop was a GIFT. It's cliche to say an experience was life-changing, but this actually was—it's not like anything I've experienced before. Were the classes wonderful? Yes. Did I grow as an artist? Yes. Is Celebration Barn an absolutely magical, beautiful, natural location? Yes. But for me, the thing that mattered most was the community. To be in space with only artists of color, in a location and setting many of us would never otherwise get the chance to experience...that changed something deep in me, opened up a world of possibilities I hadn't otherwise considered—to put it simply, it made me feel FREE. I could BREATHE in a way it's very, very hard to do in other types of company, i.e., the rest of the entire damn world. Thank you Jenelle, Ato, and Sohina, thank you Encompass Collective, thank you Celebration Barn. I'm carrying this one with me forever.” - Joseph Cardozo (Summer ‘22)