New York Theatre Intensives

NYTI NEW PLAY SUMMER CONSERVATORY in association with the artists of Ensemble Studio Theatre

NEW YORK THEATRE INTENSIVES offers seminars and intensives in contemporary American theatre performance, new play development and collaborative art. Our flagship program is the six week summer conservatory where students from across the country join us in NYC to focus on the development of new work as actors, writers and directors. Our deepening course challenges participants to work across genre and in a collaborative format to find their own voices and their place in the collective.

Students study five days a week with master teachers from the ranks of the Ensemble Studio Theatre ( and our acting faculty also lead departments at NYU), write plays, do public presentations, publish their work and meet with luminaries from the world of theatre. Our guests have included David Auburn, Donald Margulies ( Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights), Jerry Zaks (award winning Broadway director), Billy Hopkins (casting PRECIOUS), Lois Smith (TRUE BLOOD) and lots of others.

Come join us!

EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS FOR 2013

Early Application Deadline: May 1st, 2013
(10% discount)

Download Application Forms Here

For info on all aspects of our 2013 Program, from student housing to college credits, please read the
Fact Sheet on the 2013 Summer Conservatory page

Acting, writing, ensemble work and guest seminars with some of the brightest lights in the contemporary American Theatre. Past guests have included Donald Margulies (Pulitzer Prize), David Auburn (Pulitzer Prize), Willie Reale (Tony and Oscar nominee, McArthur Fellow, Dominic Chianese ( actor, THE SOPRANOS), Billy Hopkins ( casting director PRECIOUS and many other projects).

Public performances, theatre tickets, seminars and city tours. Optional weekends at the O’Neill Theatre Center, Berkshire Playwrights Festival and more!

A L U M N I W E E K E N D W R A P S

We just completed our first Alumni Weekend and the quality of the work was simply outstanding. Watching the growth and development of these extremely gifted creators is awe inspiring. > View Gallery

F I N E A R T I S T S A T S U M M E R C O N S E R V A T O R Y
	We recently introduced fine artists as respondents to our work. Fred Hatt (www.fredhatt.com), Ira Joel Haber, Deryl Day and Alejandro Paz joined students in process and gave us another perspective on the affect of our work in the world.

AVAILABLE NOW!!
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			NEW PLAYS AND MONOLOGUES from NYARTS Summer Theatre Conservatory 2012 A collection of works created by the Summer Theatre Conservatory Class of 2012 July 6 - Aug 13 2010 To Order: summerconservatory@gmail.com

A D I S C U S S I O N - D I R E C T O R S S U S A N M E R S O N & R O D M E N Z I E S

NYTI Directors Susan Merson and Rod Menzies discuss the various aspects of the NYTI Program.

SM: ". . . to be spontaneous, to be in the moment, to talk and listen to people that we are engaged with and to come up with creative choices for any kind of conflict resolution, that's going to help you whether or not you're going to be a great star in the theater or whether you're going to be a citizen of the planet in our generation."

Director Rod Menzies: "I think it was a wonderful experience for the students in our first years because we had such a great cross section. . . "

". . . I think we did something pretty remarkable"

All the playwrights and directors were taking acting classes, all of the acting students were taking playwriting classes and we kept all the work at the same kind of level with the same quality of attention, so we developed a repertoire of plays written by every person in the class. " . . . > READ FULL TEXT