The Glove Theatre is pleased to offer ongoing education and training for artists and creatives of all types, skill levels, and ages, as well as developmental support for new theatrical, cabaret, and solo show works.

GloveArts Program

Our GloveArts Program provides two FREE youth-focused arts programs designed for grade school, junior, and senior high school students. This program is generously underwritten thanks to 100 Women Who Care of the Adirondack Foothills, the NYS Council on the Arts (NYSCA), with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

SUMMER MUSICAL

This program is geared for children in first through twelfth grade and typically occurs during the first two weeks of July. It results in a musical on our mainstage.

This year, Jen Flynn returns as the Lead Teaching Artist with Educator Jamie Eacker Jennings for Disney's The Jungle Book KIDS with performances July 11 - 13.

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THEATRE INSTITUTE

This program is a four-week full-day summer camp for middle and high school students, typically the last two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August. Attendees have the opportunity to create and perform their own original piece of theatre.

This year, Kristoph DiMaria will serve as Lead Teaching Artist with Educator Jamie Eacker Jennings, as participants will produce an original adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance with performances from August 15 - 17. 

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In addition to the educator staff, the program has a dedicated team of volunteer educators/subject matter experts – including Holly St. Andrews, Aaron Enfield, and Christopher Ihasz. All three volunteers have previously worked professionally in the theatre world of sound, lighting, costume design, technical design, construction, special effects, and arts administration.

Meet the GloveArts Educators

Jennifer Flynn is a lifelong resident of Fulton County and works as an English teacher at Gloversville Middle School. There, she directs shows for both the middle and high schools. Each year, she directs between two and four shows for the school district and community theaters. Flynn has performed with the Colonial Little Theatre and with Foothills Family Productions. She has been directing the summer children’s musicals at The Glove since 2017. 

“I always enjoy my time at The Glove Theatre working with kids from various schools and age groups during the summer. We have a lot of fun working together, not only on a show, but in developing lifelong friendships.”

Kristoph “Rags” DiMaria is a lifelong resident of the Capital Region and a Co-Founder of Will Kempe’s Players, a regional theater cooperative from Troy, NY that produces a wide range of theatrical performances using the methods used by William Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He has worked with Troy Foundry Theatre, Theatre Voices, Saratoga Shakespeare, Creative Action Unlimited, SUNY Schenectady, Sand Lake Center for the Arts, and Make-A-Wish Northeast New York. 

He is currently a Teaching Artist at the Castle Island Bilingual Montessori School in Albany. For more than seven (7) years, Kristoph has performed as "Ragliacci" the clown (“Rags”, for short), inspired by the Pochinko clowning tradition. He has previously performed in Gloversville, the first time with the SUNY Schenectady Vocal Chamber Ensemble at The Glove Theatre in 2017. In 2019 and 2021, he performed a one-clown adaptation of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to family audiences at the Fulton County Historical Society. 

“I am delighted to be serving the communities of Fulton and Montgomery counties as the Lead Teaching Artist for the Summer Institute. Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic, Pirates of Penzance, is a comic or "light" opera that bridges the gap between Europe and America's 19th-century "grand opera" and the birth of contemporary musical theatre on NYC's Broadway and beyond. My background as a trained musician, clown, and theatre maker will braid together this satirical storytelling of pirates, maidens, and generals. I look forward to engaging the students and elevating their learning experience by devising with them to explore new musical stylings, hints of circus, and their own perspectives on these art forms."

Jamie Eacker Jennings is a Gloversville native and a veteran of the Glove Theatre's summer shows dating back to the 2000s. She is a graduate of the American Musical & Dance Academy (AMDA) in New York City and has had a successful career as an Equity Actress in the MD/DC/VA area, where she has performed in over 30 shows. She performed in two National Tours with the Kennedy Center and joined  Marvin Hamlisch as a Soloist in NSO Pops. Jamie has also performed at Ford’s Theatre in A Christmas Carol, Studio Theatre Grey Gardens, and Signature Theatre in Titanic, just to name a few. She regularly performed at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre in VA most notably, she was in the original cast and performed as Dance Captain/Swing, understudying for Heidi Blickenstaff (Katherine) in Freaky Friday.   

“I am excited to be back in Gloversville after a 20-year hiatus. As an Educator to both shows, I cannot wait to instill my knowledge, experience, and expertise that I have gained in the professional theatre world with the students of The Glove Theatre, a theatre I have so many fond memories of.”