Prospect Theater Company announces auditions for its
2014 Musical Theater Summer Intensive
for Young Performers Ages 12-17, from July 7 - 26, 2014
Program Includes Workshops, Master Classes with Broadway Artists,
and Showcase Performance as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival
Writing Scholarship opportunity from The ASCAP Foundation
This July, Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber , Managing Director) once again will host a three-week summer intensive for students aged 12-17. Beginning Monday, July 7 and running through Saturday, July 26, selected students will participate in a daily musical theater training program from 10am - 6pm Monday through Saturday (Sundays off).
In keeping with Prospect Theater Company’s mission to support the next generation of musical theater artists, the company’s 2014 Musical Theater Summer Intensive will be an opportunity for young performers with a passion for musicals to build their performance skills by working directly with Prospect artists. During the course of the three-week program, participants will work with a professional stage director and music director to rehearse and present a new musical revue, premiering original songs and monologues written expressly for young people by some of New York’s most exciting emerging composers and lyricists. Under the guidance of Summer Intensive Program Director Rachel Dart, and Prospect’s Director of Education Simone Zamore Curbelo, the program will be held in midtown Manhattan, and will culminate with a Showcase Presentation as part of the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival.
In addition to showcase performances, students will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of workshops and coaching sessions, as well as master classes with guest artists and Broadway performers, to deepen general knowledge of theatre practice, strengthen vocal and acting technique, and enhance overall confidence.
This year, in addition to its focus on performance, our Summer Intensive will offer a special expanded opportunity for students interested in learning about writing for the musical theater, through the sponsorship of The ASCAP Foundation, including one full-tuition program scholarship to be awarded to a talented student with demonstrated need. For information on the scholarship application process, please email
Summer@ProspectTheater.org.
Rolling admission to the program (which is limited to a total of 24 students) is by audition or interview (for writing students). Upcoming auditions will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2014.
To schedule an audition, or for more information, please email
Summer@ProspectTheater.org or call
212-594-4476. Participant tuition for the 3-week program is $900 per student for those accepted and enrolled prior to April 1, and $1000 thereafter. Some limited, need-based scholarship funding is available.
For more information on Prospect’s Summer Intensive,
including a brief video about the program, click here:
Simone Zamore Curbelo, Director of Education A graduate of Princeton University (B.A. English, Dramatic Literature, minors in Theater, Modern Dance, and Vocal Performance) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.M, Arts in Education), Simone is a professional singer, dancer, and actor; she has trained, both recreationally and competitively, in jazz, tap, ballet, modern, lyrical, musical theater, contemporary, and hip hop. An Equity performer, she has been featured as a Principal Dancer inSophisticated Ladies (Inside Broadway), numerous regional tours and Off-Broadway performances, and performed with Prospect for over 10 years including The Taxi Cabaret, The Flood, DIDO (& Aeneas), Evergreen, and The Rockae.
Rachel Dart, Summer Intensive Director received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has worked with companies such as The 52nd Street Project, aMios, The Culture Project, Emerging Artists Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, and Prospect Theater Company. She has also directed in various festivals, such as the Estrogenius Festival, the West Village Musical Theatre Festival, and the Manhattan Shakespeare Project’s Emerging Female Voices Playwrights Fest. Rachel is the creator, producer, and director of The Importance of Being Not So Earnest, a series of evenings of new musical comedy songs by emerging writers. She has been a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow and an SDCF Observer.
Prospect Theater Company is one of America's leading producers of new musical theater, and was honored to receive a 2013 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing. Since 2000, the company has fully produced more than 20 premiere musicals in New York City, in addition to new plays and numerous re-inventions of classic works. Year-round, Prospect supports developmental opportunities for emerging musical theater writers, especially through our annual musical theater lab. Notable productions include: the Drama Desk Award-winning
Working (2012),
Unlock'd (2013),
Iron Curtain (2006, 2011),
Myths and Hymns (2012),
Cole Porter's Nymph Errant (2012),
With Glee (2010),
The Blue Flower (2008),
Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge (2009),
The Hidden Sky (2010),
Illyria (2002, 2008), and the Drama-Desk nominated
The Pursuit of Persephone (2005).
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