Broadway Conservatory

Session1	July 11 - July 23, 2010
Ages	15 - 20
Tuition	$3000
Audition	Broadway Conservatory Audition Requirements!

Tuition includes room and meals

Camp/Workshop Details

Producing Director: Robert Pullen
Faculty: Elmore James, Carol Schuberg, Susan Deery

WITH LIMITED ENROLLMENT AND BY AUDITION ONLY

This two-week intensive conservatory program will build upon the fundamental training taught in the one-week musical theater program. Led by celebrated Broadway artists, activities will include character development, scene study, voice coaching and advance dance instruction which includes current Broadway choreography. Those selected to participate will receive instruction and specific teaching materials in advance in an effort to maximize the student's experience and to identify the specific objectives of the program.

Additionally, students will have access to one-on-one sessions with Broadway artists discussing audition repertoire, career advice and the basic steps to surviving in New York City as a newly-arriving artist. The two-week program will culminate in a final presentation for family and friends showcasing each student's work, both as an individual and as an ensemble member. Video submission and application required. Students not accepted will receive a full refund of their deposit minus a $50 audition fee.

Audition Requirements

Click here for Video Audition Requirements and Application Information!

* Camp/Workshop Additional Information

Students check-in between 2 - 3:30pm on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into Reagan (DCA) or Dulles (IAD) on the First Day of camp between 10am and 2pm.
Flights should depart from Reagan (DCA) or Dulles (IAD) on the last day of camp after 7pm.
Transportation is available to and from Reagan (DCA) or Dulles (IAD) for $30 each way.

Directors

Robert Pullen

Producing Director

ROBERT C. PULLEN Broadway Credits include The Music Man, Footloose, Chicago, the Musical, Annie Get Your Gun, Titanic, Seussical the Musical, 42nd Street, Blast, and Broadway Salutes Hillary Clinton with Rosie O'Donnell.

Kennedy Center producing highlights include the Trial of Hamlet with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, An Evening of August Wilson starring Leslie Uggams, Viola Davis and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, The Art of Film Music with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and John Williams, Marc Blitzstein's Regina starring Patti LuPone, A Recital of French Song starring Renee Fleming, Voices of the Arts with John Lithgow, Susan Stroman, Harold Prince and Christine Baranski; Television specials include the 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Steve Martin, 2006 Mark Twain Prize honoring Neil Simon, 2007 Mark Twain Prize honoring Billy Crystal, 2008 Mark Twain Prize honoring George Carlin and the 35th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center starring Angela Lansbury, Savion Glover, George Hearn and Marvin Hamlisch. Other credits include directing and producing Bravo Networks documentary On With the Show.

Most recently, Mr. Pullen produced the Aretha Franklin segment of President Obama's inaugural swearing-in ceremony, in March of 2009 Pullen produced a Salute to Senator Ted Kennedy with Bill Cosby, Bernadette Peters, James Taylor, President Obama and more, and soon he will produce A Celebration of Women in the Arts with Patti LaBelle, k.d. lang, LeAnn Rimes, Caroline Kennedy, Kathleen Turner, Stockard Channing and more.

A life-long arts education advocate, Mr. Pullen teaches musical theater master classes at universities across the country. Pullen also produces a national conservatory training program, US Performing Arts, which provides instruction to students ages 12-20 in all areas of musical theater.

Education: Graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, studying voice, dance and acting, as well as attended The Juilliard School for voice and piano. Pullen is a member of American University's Arts Management Advisory Council.

Faculty

Carol Schuberg

Workshop Head

Carol Schuberg has performed on Broadway in Meet Me in St. Louis, and in the National tour of Cats, Promises, Promises, Tap Dance Kid, Barnum and Gigi. She has played Erma in Anything Goes, Sheila in A Chorus Line, Electra in Gypsy, Rose in Bye, Bye Birdie, and Conchalla in the The Late Henry Moss. She choreographed Avenue X for Cain Park, Two Gentlemen of Verona for the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Nine for New York University. She was Assistant Choreographer for Tony Stevens on Sweet Charity (for the Istanbul Opera), Sheba, Promises, Promises, Bye, Bye Birdie, The State Farm Industrials, and the King.com Industrial. She also assisted Michael Smuin for the film The Fantasticks, Ted Pappas on The Pajama Game for the New York City Opera, and Janet Watson on Anything Goes and Gypsy. Carol has taught theater dance, jazz, tap and ballet at New York University, the American Music and Dramatic Academy, Broadway Dance Center and Jefferson High School for the Performing Arts in Portland Oregon. She received her BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah.

Elmore James

Workshop Director

His Broadway credits include: Jim in Big River, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well... , Your Arms too Short to Box with God with Patti LaBelle and Al Green (also recorded with Patti LaBelle), and the original cast of Beauty and the Beast. Most recently Mr. James shared the stage with Patti LuPone in the Kennedy Center's production of Regina and with Reba McEntire in the Carnegie Hall concert version of South Pacific. Mr. James studied opera at The Juilliard School and made his professional opera debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni in the famous Peter Sellars production. Additionally, Elmore has sung as a soloist at the Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and has sung for many US Presidents, and European royalty. Most recently Mr. James performed in the Swedish premiere of the Broadway hit, The Full Monty. Directing credits from Broadway to international, from Shakespeare to Andrew Lloyd Webber. When Elmore has the time, he lends his teaching talents to New York University, Mercy College, Iona, SUNY Purchase and the School of Performing Arts.

Susan Deery

Faculty

Susan Derry, Kennedy Center credits include: Ragtime, Mame with Christine Baranski and the Broadway Eisenhower Theater re-opening. On Broadway she appeared in Wonderful Town, and Regionally played Desdemona in Othello, Meg in Crimes of the Heart, Eliza in My Fair Lady, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Ernest, Betty Haynes in White Christmas, Agnes in I do! I do!, Nora in Nora, Fiona in Brigadoon, Maria in West Side Story, Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart and Christine in Phantom of the Opera in Germany. Ms. Derry has been a guest soloist with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern University and the Manhattan School of Music.

Location Information

Experience an exciting summer in Washington, D.C. with US Performing Arts, as we celebrate our fifth year in the nation's capital. Located in the District's historic neighborhood of Foggy Bottom, students will reside on the campus of George Washington University. With its ideal northwest locale, George Washington University is within easy visiting of all the historic sites in our nation's capital and steps away from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. These are fantastic programs to coincide with a family vacation to Washington, D.C.

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