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Saturday, Apr 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
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Join best friends Happy Camper and Fuzzy on an adventure in “Let’s Go Camping!” Told through music, puppetry, and creative play, this interactive experience is designed for 2 to 5-year-olds.
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Saturday, Apr 12, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
- DeVos Family Room
- Purchase Tickets
- Jump to Program
Join best friends Happy Camper and Fuzzy on a camping adventure, told through music, puppetry, and creative play! “Let’s Go Camping!” is a 45-minute interactive play designed for 2 to 5-year-olds. Along the way, children will explore the wonders of nature, meet woodland friends, and earn Junior Explorer badges. Children are encouraged to bring their favorite stuffed animal or doll to the performance to accompany them on their journey.
“Let’s Go Camping!” was commissioned by the Jeanette M Gould Traveling Theater and was created by Nicole B. Adkins, Elizabeth Brendel Horn, and Scottie Rowell. It was originally conceived to perform bedside for pediatric hospital patients. “Let’s Go Camping!” premiered with UCF students in the “Theatre for Young Audiences and Communities” course in Spring 2024.
Program
Let’s Go Camping!
Written by Nicole B. Adkins and Elizabeth Brendel Horn
Lyrics by Nicole B. Adkins
Music by Scottie Rowell
Designed by Scottie Rowell
Fabricated by Teller Productions
Presented by the Spring 2025 Theatre for Young Audiences and Communities Course
Sponsored by the Jeanette M Gould Traveling Theater
DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Brendel Horn
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Elle Koch
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Leanna Harting
COMPANY MANAGERS: Marisa Figueras and Annalee Weydert
TOUR MANAGER: Andrew Sickles
TODAY’S PERFORMERS:
HAPPY: Samantha Kalisha
FUZZY: Noah Hall
TODAY’S FACILITATORS:
Grace Cooper, Jackie Milles, Riley Slater, Trinity Wortham, Peyton Zwierzchowski
ABOUT THE TYA AND COMMUNITIES COURSE:
This course introduces undergraduate students to Theatre for Young Audiences, and allows them to mount a touring TYA production. Let’s Go Camping! tours to schools and hospitals. Due to the unique nature of this class, we have five casts of Let’s Go Camping! who perform on different dates, as well as students in multiple leadership and support roles. Today’s performance reflects the hard work of all of the students in this course, including those listed above as well as: Allie Ayars, Sunni Baker, Maya Carpentiere, Bria Cottrell, Zachary Gafford, Gineysha Gonzalez, Conn Harper, Zoey Hart, Elizabeth Pelland, and Piper Sunvold.

Thank You to Our Supporters




Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- The Judith and David Albertson Endowment in the Arts
- Cartwright Family Humanities & Arts Endowment
- Phil and Jane Easterling
- LIFE at UCF
- Orlando Downtown Development Board
- OUC – The Reliable One
- Women’s Club at UCF, Inc.
Thank You to Our Festival Partners
- Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
- National Young Composers Challenge
- Orlando Family Stage
- Orlando Shakes
- Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
- UCF College of Health Professions and Sciences
- UCF School of Modeling, Simulation and Training