The Score:
"Bringing Everyone Around the Campfire"
​"Every individual student or audience member has unique wants, attachments, and sensitivities," says Jamie Agnello, Ensemble Development Manager and Campfire's Ranger East. "Our goal is to provide a world where there are a lot of options, and then to custom tailor it based on our evolution of understanding each audience member, as well as the sensory tools and the points of engagement that are going to work."

The New York Times:
​'Up and Away,' For Young Audiences Who Don't Like Surprises
"For an audience that sometimes doesn’t feel welcome, we wanted to create an experience that was the opposite of that, where we are waiting for them to arrive,”
-Jonathan Shmidt Chapman, director

The New York Times: A Test in Following Directions 
“All of our work experiments with new ways for young audiences to interact with live performance, taking advantage of the fact that kids have no preconceived idea of what theater should be...
​They don’t need a mask or to be told how to behave.” 
-Jonathan Shmidt Chapman

The New York Times:
Review: 'Up and Away,'
A Trip Into the Clouds for a Special Audience
"Worthy endeavors are easy to applaud, but “Up and Away,” which I attended one morning this week with a school group of 7- and 8-year-olds, is small-batch, immersive theater at its most thoughtful and deliberate. Making its audience feel welcome and at ease is fundamental to the production — an approach a lot of mainstream theater could stand to learn from."
-Laura Collins-Hughes​

The Derrick: Theater Company with Oil City Graduate Featured in New York Times Article
"Although she has come a long way since graduating from Oil City High School in 2003 and performing at the Barrow-Civic Theatre in Franklin, Agnello credits her roots for helping to build her confidence as a young theater enthusiast.
"I felt like the arts community in Oil City and Franklin was so welcoming," she said. "