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Summer Theatre Artistic Training Experience (STATE) is an intensive summer program for talented young artists a two-week immersion in collegiate musical theatre training at Penn State.
Non-credit
Residential
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Students will get a sample of the rigors of artistic training as well as an idea of the unique components of integrated training that are the hallmark of Penn State Musical Theatre. Practical classes and advice in navigating the college audition process as well as the professional musical theatre industry will also be included.
Students will train with Penn State faculty, guest professionals, and noted alumni in all three areas of musical theatre (voice, acting, dance). Individualized attention and private instruction are also included. Days also include the integrated approach to musical theatre unique to Penn State through studio classes. Evenings include master classes, cabarets, and a menu of offerings for the serious musical theatre student.
This program will be conducted in classroom facilities on Penn State’s University Park campus. Camp participants will reside in the Penn State residence halls while the camp is in session. If campers arrive prior to the first day of camp, or need additional lodging after the camp concludes, those additional arrangements for lodging are the responsibility of the camper.
The Musical Theatre B.F.A. degree program is an intensive pre-professional training program with alumni working around the country and the world.
Our faculty is made up of artists dedicated to both the profession and the academy. As working actors, dancers, music directors, choreographers, and directors, we bring our students Broadway, national tour, regional theatre, and film and television experience. With a ratio of thirteen faculty to forty-nine students, the training is individualized, specific, and demanding.
Students accepted into the program will receive specialized training in singing, acting, and dance. In addition to this training, Penn State Musical Theatre offers signature initiatives like the New Musicals Initiative (which commissions musical theatre writers to write for our students), the Master Class Series, and our unique Musical Theatre Wellness Center – which assists our students in the areas of Mental, Physical, Vocal, and Nutritional Health during their training.
Participants: 30–35 (Acceptance is by audition; students interested in applying should be entering the 11th or 12th grade in Fall 2023)
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All students interested in applying online for the Musical Theatre Intensive at S.T.A.T.E. must submit the following via digital upload at the Penn State Theatre Acceptd website.
1 - Headshot/Photo
2 - Resume
3 - Four video clips (requirements follow)
Video Requirements:
Acting: A memorized monologue no longer than ninety seconds from a contemporary script.
Voice: Two contrasting vocal pieces (no longer than one minute each). One ballad, one uptempo. One of your songs must be written prior to 1970. Please use live or recorded accompaniment.
Dance: 30-60 seconds of dance, in whatever dance discipline you are most comfortable with: tap, jazz, ballet, modern, African, hip-hop, lyrical, contemporary. No barre work. Please stick to vocabulary and steps you are familiar with and can execute well. We just want to see where you are in your dance training. Give us a minute of what will show us YOU through your dance.
Deadline
Applications will be accepted from January 1 – March 1, 2023. Decisions will be sent via Acceptd the week of March 13, 2023.
The registration and health forms will be due – along with payment in full – by April 1, 2023.
Jun 25 - Jul 07
2 weeks
Residential
Cost: $2950 (Includes instruction, private lessons, master classes, housing, and food)
Financial Aid
If you are unable to afford the fee to submit your materials through Acceptd, please contact the Acceptd support team at [email protected], provide documentation of need, and Acceptd will waive the fee.
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