Prospect Theater Hosts Auditions Today for 2015 Teen Summer Intensive

This July, Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) will once again host a three-week Summer Intensive for musical theater students ages 12-17. Beginning Monday, July 6 and running through Saturday, July 25, admitted students will participate in a daily musical theater training program from Mon. - Sat., 10am-6pm (Sundays off).

In keeping with Prospect Theater Company's mission to support the next generation of musical theater artists, the company's 2015 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, under the guidance of Prospect's Director of Education, Simone Zamore Curbelo, 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.

This year, The ASCAP Foundation will once again be sponsoring an expanded writing element to the program, offering a full scholarship for a student interested in studying musical theater writing. Additional need-based scholarship funds may be available for admitted students. Talented young women demonstrating financial need may receive support through the newly established Edith Meiser Scholarship Fund.

Rolling admission to the program (which is limited to a total of 24 students) is by audition. To schedule an audition, or for more information, email Summer@ProspectTheater.org or call 212-594-4476. Upcoming auditions are schedule for Saturdays, Feb. 21 and March 7, but additional times are also available. Participant tuition for the 3-week program is $1000 per student before April 1, and $1200 per student after April 1.

For more information on Prospect's Summer Intensive, including a brief video about the program, click here: www.prospecttheater.org/2014/01/28/summer-intensive-auditions.

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 in Sophisticated 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. Simone is thrilled to be able to bring Prospect to students throughout the Tri-state area.

Prospect Theater Company was founded in 1998 by five graduates of Princeton University. Over the past decade, Prospect has premiered more than thirty new American musicals, including Jasper in Deadland, Tamar of the River, Iron Curtain, With Glee, Illyria, Evergreen, The Tutor, and The Blue Flower and is the artistic home of Award-winning writer Peter Mills (2010 Kleban Award for lyrics, 2008 Fred Ebb Award, 2002 Jonathan Larson Award, www.pcmills.com).

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