THEY’RE PACKING FOR C-A-M-P "My beloved rogues have discovered me. I was in hiding but they found me," says James Franklin, former Ballet New England instructor and artistic director. "They said, ‘want to (teach)?’ I said, ‘Maine in August – compared to Florida? It’s paradise." And so Mr. Franklin, as even peers refer to him, will grace the Northeast with his presence this summer, working at Roy and Eileen Rogosin’s new theater camp, C-A-M-P. (The Rogosins co-founded Seacoast Repertory Theatre). Franklin, who was also a professor at the University of New Hampshire during his eight years on the Seacoast, says he will lecture on resumés, and theater dance history. "For a guy that’s 70, I can still do that." He also promises a good dose of truth, including talk about how his own career went and why it didn’t go where it could have. Truth, he says is too often left out of the art-instruction equation. Franklin had one more announcement – of even greater importance, he says. He is a first-time grandfather to twins, a boy and a girl. The Rogosins have also pulled back Bryan R. Knowlton to work at C.A.M.P., which will run 12 days in Auburn, Maine, in July/August. Knowlton, now out of New York City, is a BNE and Seacoast Repertory Theatre alum. He’s currently working "Chorus Line," with Broadway in Dallas, at the Bass Hall. Shortly before that he was in "The Public Sings" at the City Center, in New York, with Ben Stiller, Meryl Streep, and Eartha Kitt, "and I danced with Savion Glover," he reports. Eileen Rogosin says the new camp is the first of numerous enterprises she and husband, Roy, have planned. They’ll announce more in the near future." Check back soon for more great news!
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