Julliard Julliard’s Music Advancement Program is a Saturday instrument instruction program for highly talented children from backgrounds underrepresented in American performing arts. For the past 25 years, MAP has served as an essential bridge to higher levels of artistic and personal development for hundreds of young students. For more information, click here.
The Wooster Group Summer Institute http://thewoostergroup.org/summer-institute The Summer Institute is a free, three-week performance workshop for teenagers in the public school system, founded by Wooster Group member Kate Valk and Ariana Smart Truman. The workshop is organized around a selected text and sessions with guest artists in many aspects of performance (ranging from movement to writing to voice training to video techniques). Students are accepted as young as twelve, and are invited back every summer until they graduate from high school, at which time they may return as interns, and ultimately instructors or guest artists. The program culminates in three public performances for supporters, friends, and family.
Cat Youth Theatre (Free Theatre Program- MUST APPLY!) http://www.creativeartsteam.org Creative Arts Team (CAT) Youth Theatre is a free, award-winning after school program that helps young people to thrive– on stage and in life. Members create socially relevant, artistically sophisticated original plays while learning vital life skills enabling youth to become self-confident, compassionate and accountable; to develop relationships across differences; build community; and be prepared to act as contributing citizens.
Teen Reviewers and Critics https://teens.artsconnection.org/trac/ The Teen Reviewers and Critics Program (TRaC) is a free 10-week after school program for high school students from all over New York and New Jersey to explore the arts in NYC while expanding critical thinking and writing skills. Participating teens are placed in one of six groups—film, dance, theater, visual art, music, or multi-arts—to dig deep into a specific artistic genre by attending cutting-edge performances, meeting artists, visiting museums, learning to navigate the city, and much more.
Urban Word NYC Urban Word NYC champions the voices of New York City youth by providing platforms for critical literacy, youth development & leadership through free & uncensored writing, college preparation & performance opportunities. Go to: www.urbanwordnyc.org
The Lucille Lortel Theatre's NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship An exciting NYC ten-minute play festival focused on encouraging and showcasing youth theatrical voices. Fully funded by the Lucille Lortel Theatre and in partnership with our Theatre Program, the contest culminates with an evening of staged readings with professional actors of these original student one-act plays. Fellows are mentored by professional playwrightsand directors as their plays receive a staged reading by professional actors in April 2021. Fellows get access to NYC professional playwrights for mentoring and have their plays published in a Fellows anthology. For More Information: https://www.lortel.org/hspf