"After seven years, I can't describe it in one word, there's too many." Michael Grey At the end of the day Monday I posed the question: Describe your experience or feelings for Papermill in one word. I received words that had a lot of depth such as, "wonderful, growth, devastating, family, eye-opening, inspiring." Words that make little sense to someone out of the program like one example, "giraffe." And even a word that isn't actually a real word, "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Some people had too many words, some had too few, and some had none at all.  But one word that I felt best …

On my friend's Facebook the first thing you see in her 'About Me' is the quote "Art lives here." I find that the greatest thing about being a part of the Papermill Playhouse Musical Theater Summer Conservatory is that art really does live there. There is so much art everywhere. I love being able to hear people practicing duets in the hall during my monologue class, to walk down the hall and laugh as people overdramatize the new scene from acting, or see people practicing the choreography to the opening number during section rehearsal through the glass walls of the fishbowl–a room that has a …

Last February hundreds of kids went to Millburn Middle School, sticking numbers on the front of their shirts as they went to audition for a special program offered by the Papermill Playhouse. One hundred and twenty students got into the program. Five weeks. Three divisions. One amazing experience.    For many years now the Papermill Playhouse has offered a five week long intensive program for kids and teens, ages 10-18 (Junior - ages 10-12, Junior Plus - ages 12-14, and Senior - ages 14-18). I was lucky enough to get into the Senior Company along with 71 others. We spend around 8 hours of our…