June 30-July 5, 2025 | Ten4Ten+ (T4T) is a one-week theater intensive and performance opportunity open to students ages 16-22 years old. Our mission is to provide an immersive and collaborative production experience to promote artistic autonomy, in-depth scene study, and build confidence in advanced theater makers.
T4T is a program designed to put the students at the center of their own creative process. This showcase opportunity aims to provide each participant with dramatic and vocal coaching for material that explores themes and skills they're interested in. The scenes/monologues/songs are selected in collaboration with each year's cast.
Broadway and other industry professionals will stage and conceive the production, leaving the students to work together and execute the shared vision for the show. With a second weekend of encore performances, performers are introduced to an immersive theater experience in a new venue. Adapting content for various venue styles is another practical skill we explore as a group to best prepare our participants for their future performing pursuits.
This program was designed to provide performers who have aged out of our Camp program (10th grade and beyond) with 10 minutes of well-coached material (monologues/songs/scenes). This idea of Ten4Ten+ guides the process to ensure each participant has a rewarding experience.
Nick Ong is an NYC-based actor, originally from the Bay Area. He is beyond grateful to be back working with Carpe Diem this summer! Some favorite theatre credits include: Lysander/Flute in Midsummer (Tiltyard), a radical Shakespearean remix that performed in NYC and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Fedotik/Ferapont in Madeleine George's world-premiere translation of Three Sisters (Two River Theater); Actor 1 in Lauren Yee's King of the Yees (Profile Theatre); and Henry in Another Revolution (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Nick received his B.A. in Theatre from The George Washington University. He is also a hat wearer. A ramen enthusiast. A believer in the top button. A theater aisle sitter. And an amateur lyricist. nickong.com
Brady Walsh is CDT's Artistic Director and an experienced educator with degrees in Music Education and Music Business from the Crane School of Music. His teaching and speaking engagements have included the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, Opera Saratoga, and more. He currently teaches private voice students in the Capital District, hosting a monthly in-person studio class in Ballston Spa for collaboration and performance practice. As an actor, he has performed leading roles with regional and community theaters in the New York City area, including A Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley Kowalski), Into the Woods (Cinderella's Prince/The Wolf), and Ragtime (Tateh). Additionally, Brady has completed a course of study in libretto writing through Einhorn School of Performing Arts and gone on to write an original full-length musical about Georgia O’Keeffe (The Artist) currently in development with collaborator Hannah Corneau.
Hannah Corneau made her Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked. She recently starred as Edna St. Vincent Millay in the critically-acclaimed Transport Group production of Renascence. Previously, she traveled around the country as Yitzhak in the First National tour of Hedwig and The Angry Inch. Her Off-Broadway and regional credits include Daddy Long Legs, Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Harmony (Ovation nomination), Les Miserables (Joseph Jefferson Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and A Little Night Music. She is also a founding member of RANGE a cappella.