French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts
French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts is a performing arts program and summer camp located just outside Hancock, New York, on a private lake in the western Catskill mountains. The camp is approximately two and a half hours from New York City between Monticello and Binghamton. French Woods offers summer camp programs in dance, theater, music, rock shop, circus, magic, visual arts, sports, and horseback riding programs.
Notable alumni
- Jason Robert Brown (composer)
- Alex Charak (actor As the World Turns)
- Zooey Deschanel (actress)
- Jon Favreau (actor Swingers)
- Barrett Foa (actor The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q)
- Gideon Glick (actor, Spring Awakening
- Mandy Moore (Stand by Me)
- Glenn Howerton (actor)
- David Javerbaum (Executive Producer The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
- Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael (musical artists "Maroon 5")
- Amy Linker (actress Square Pegs)
- Natasha Lyonne (actress)
- Graham Patrick Martin (actor The Bill Engvall Show)
- Tito Muñoz (conductor)
- Alisha levine (fashion designer)
- Seth Levine
- Zac Posen (fashion designer)
- Steve Rosen (actor Storytelling Spamalot)
- David Stone (producer Wicked, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
- Nat Wolff (The Naked Brothers Band)
- Remy Zaken (actress, Spring Awakening)
- Marc Acito (opera singer, novelist)
- David Sheinkopf (actor)
- David Pogue (NY Times contributor)
- Ilan Hall (winner of Top Chef season 2)