August 13 - 17, 2012
• • • •   What's the program like?
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What's the Program Like?
The Berklee Musical Theater Summer Intensive is a five-day course that provides professional-level musical performance training for promising young artists age 15 and older. The program is designed to help students gain important skills and build well-rounded proficiency in musical theater and stage performance. It includes core classes and electives, Q&A sessions with visiting musical theater artists, and a rigorous rehearsal schedule. The program culminates in a professional showcase at the Berklee Performance Center, Berklee's flagship performance space and one of Boston's most prestigious concert halls.

Core Classes:

  • Voice Master Classes
  • Dance and Movement for the Stage
  • Acting Technique
  • Improvisation
  • Audition Techniques

Elective Workshops May Include:

  • Stage Combat
  • Lyric Analysis
  • Hip-Hop Theater Techniques
  • Clowning/Commedia dell'Arte
  • Crafting a Monologue
  • Yoga for Vocalists

Typical Daily Schedule:

  • 9:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m. Full Company Warm-up
  • 9:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Voice
  • 10:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m. Elective Workshops
  • 12:00 p.m.-12:50 p.m. Lunch and Q&A Sessions with Various Visiting Artists
  • 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m. Acting Technique and Performance Coaching
  • 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. Dance and Movement
  • 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m. Improvisation
  • 4:50 p.m.-6:20 p.m. Dinner and Break
  • 6:20 p.m.-6:50 p.m. Audition Techniques and/or Private Lessons
  • 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Rehearsal

Program director Caroline Harvey is an internationally renowned performer, writer, and educator. Her writing has been featured in print, film, and television, including season five of HBO's Def Poetry, and she was most recently featured at local venues and in the U.S. embassy in Belgrade, Serbia. Harvey is an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and teaches at berkleemusic.com, Berklee's home for online education. She has performed and taught at schools and organizations nationwide, such as YouthSpeaks, the Esalen Institute, Lesley University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. She is honored to have shared stages and classrooms with such artists as Mos Def, Livingston Taylor, Alicia Keys, Melissa Ferrick, Susie Bright, Dave Chappelle, Donna De Lory, and many others.

Where will I eat and sleep?
Applicants will be sent information and an application for residence hall housing once accepted to the program. Most program participants elect to stay in the Berklee residence halls; however, space is limited. To optimize your chances for on-campus housing, you must return the housing application immediately upon receiving it.

To be eligible to live in the residence hall, you must be 15 years of age by the start of the program. If you apply to the program after mid-May, please call the Housing Office at 617 747-2292 to find out if residence hall space is still available.