| Big River Camps (ages 3-5yr and 5-7yr camps June 2-6) |
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Karla Brookreson-Owens and Blake Smith |
| Assistant Instructor |
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Carly Berg |
| Interns |
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Dana Kelson, Emilee Arnold, Kristin LaCount, & Nicole Woodward |
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| Aristocats Camps (June 9-20) |
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Carly Berg (younger group asst director, co-choreographer), Krista Tritt (co-choreographer, overall assistant), and Sarah Peavy (older group asst director) |
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Kristin LaCount, Kacey Willis, Jacob Allen, and Nicole Woodward
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How to Eat Like a Child Camp (June 23-27)
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| Main Instructors |
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Karla Brookreson-Owens and Blake Smith |
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Carly Berg, Stefanie Clouse, and Dan Collins |
| Intern |
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Mia Beam and Nicole Woodward |
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Overnight Camp (July 10-19)
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Karla Brookreson-Owens and Blake Smith
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Evening Recreational/Special Activity Directors
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Kate McElliott and Don McElliott |
| Music Director |
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Katie Wyatt |
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| NGCSU Day Camp (July 28- Aug 1) |
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Karla Brookreson-Owens and Ruth Purcell
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Blake Smith, Stefanie Clouse, and Dan Collins |
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Mia Beam
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Welcome Karla as The New Education & Children's Theatre Director!
 Karla was most recently seen at the Holly starring as Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. She has also previously been seen on stage at the Holly in Oklahoma!, A Christmas Story, Man of La Mancha, The Fantasticks, and Arsenic and Old Lace. At the Black Bear Dinner Theatre, Karla recently performed in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and played Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. Karla has been a social worker for Dawson and Lumpkin County and enjoyed her career as a child and adolescent therapist for many years, but is ecstatic to make the career move to work with children in theater at the Holly in June of 2008! She and her husband Matt live in the local area and spend time hiking, reading, and spoiling their two cats.
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(Music Director for Overnight Camp)
Katie Wyatt is a native of Murrayville, GA, and has long been a fan of the Holly Theater. She began studying piano at the age of 7 and became heavily involved in choirs at the age of 9. After graduating from North Hall High School, she went on to Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, GA, and studied piano with Dr. David George, and voice with Mrs. Karen Calloway. While in college, Katie served as president for the TMC Chorale and also traveled with the TMC Singers and the TMC Jazz Band. She performed with these groups in various states as well as overseas. She was also a contestant in the school's Miss Reflections Pageant, where she won the crown in 2005 as well as "Best Talent" two years in a row. When she wasn't busy with campus activities, she worked as the choral accompanist for White County High School's Chorus and filled in as pianist at various area churches.
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Ruth Purcell is the Music Director for the Music Theatre Intensive Day
Camp. Ruth Has loved musical theater since she started memorizing the
current Broadway hit songs as a child, and entertaining her family.
Within a few years she and her sister were folksingers and songwriters
together in Birmingham, Alabama and later in Nashville, and members of
Hickory Wind, a bluegrass group that later became the Front Porch
String Band. An instrumentalist as well as a vocalist, she played the
fiddler in the Holly's "Fiddler on the Roof" and played backstage
fiddle in Black Bear's "Oliver" as well as singing in the chorus and
playing the part of Mrs. Bedwin. She was music director, performer,
and fiddler in the Holly's "Quilters", and played fiddle in the
Gainesville Theatre Alliance's recent production of "Barbary Allen".
Ruth has been working with children for many years, in the classroom
and as a church musician. She has a B.A. in music from George Peabody
College in Nashville, and recently acquired her Teacher Certification
from NGCSU. She has taught general music for the past 6 years at
Westminster Christian School, where she started an afterschool chorus
as well as teaching general music to K-8th. In 2007 she launched the
North Georgia Children's Chorus here in Dahlonega, a weekly community
children's choir. She has created a CD, "Songtales" with 28 children's
songs. She teaches private or group lessons in piano, violin, and
recorder and is a freelance violist and accompanist.
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(Lead Instructor for Big River camps, How to Eat Like a Child Camp, Overnight Camp, and Asst Instructor for NGCSU Day Camp)
Blake is a Cleveland resident who has had the pleasure of
working with many of North Georgia's youth in various children's
theatre productions. After graduating from White County High School in
2004 she attended Gainesville State focusing on early childhood
education and theatre. In 2006 she started working as a
paraprofessional at Mt. Yonah Elementary School all the while still
performing. She has worked for many Hall County and White County
Schools as a director and choreographer. Blake has worked in many
community and professional theatres in the area including: White
County Main Stage, The Holly Theatre, Gainesville Theatre Alliance,
and Black Bear Dinner Theatre. She is very excited about the fun
filled summer that is ahead!
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