Pearl Studios, NYC
Musical Theater

Session1	July 5 - July 10, 2010
Ages	14 - 18
Tuition	$1100
Housing	$800
Audition	No Audition Required

Tuition includes lunch
Housing is optional and includes room and meals

Limited housing available, please call 1.888.497.3553 for details.

Broadway artists give intensive training in three essential components of musical theater - acting, singing, and dancing.

Musical Theater Camp/Workshop Details

Producing Director: Robert Pullen
Artistic Director: Baayork Lee
Workshop Director: David Covington

US Performing Arts invites you to visit the Great White Way as you join Broadway artists and directors, and enthusiastic musical theater students in a 6-day intensive training academy in the heart of Manhattan's Broadway Theater District. This premiere Musical Theater program offers daily workshops in the three essential components of musical theater - acting, singing, and dancing. Curriculum includes improvisation, scene study, vocal instruction, audition techniques, and dance workshops for all levels, from beginner to advanced.

Tuition includes a ticket to a Broadway performance. This is a fantastic program to coincide with a family vacation and leaves most evenings free to spend together in the Big Apple.

Parents are invited to attend the orientation on the first day, any schedule changes will be given out at this time.

A letter of recommendation from a teacher is required prior to the beginning of camp. Enrollment for this program is limited.

* Additional Camp/Workshop Information

Residential students will be housed at Maria's Tower on the Pace University campus.
Students check-in between 2 - 5pm on the day before camp begins OR 9am on the first day of camp.
Flights should arrive into LaGuardia (LGA) or JFK (JFK) on the day BEFORE camp begins between 10am and 2pm.
Flights should depart from LaGuardia (LGA) or JFK (JFK) on the last day of camp after 6:30pm.
Transportation is available to and from LaGuardia (LGA) for $30 or JFK (JFK) for $50, or the Port Authorithy Bus Station or Penn Station for $25.

Directors and Faculty

David Covington

Workshop Director

David Covington is a freelance actor, dancer, and producer. He has worked with such stars as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Ann Reinking, Angela Lansbury, Gregory Hines, Baayork Lee, Dein Perry, and Marvin Hamlisch, to name a few. Mr. Covington began his performance career tap dancing his way across the globe with the internationally acclaimed company of TAP DOGS. Other dance credits include Associate Choreographer and Soloist for Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Associate Choreographer and Soloist for the Kennedy Center's 13th Annual Gala: A Salute to the 1940's Broadway Musical with the National Symphony Orchestra and hosted by Julie Andrews. His commitment to the preservation and promotion of the American art form of tap dance has led to the recent founding of his own tap company, MetroTAP, and youth company, Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble. Mr Covington has danced in numerous industrial events, including the 2002 Winter Olympics and has taught master classes across the US.

An Equity actor, Mr. Covington has performed in dozens of productions in the Washington DC metropolitan area, including performances at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Ford's Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Landsburgh, Theatre J, Imagination Stage, Wayside Theatre, and Roundhouse Theatre. He recently finished the film Babylon Central to be released summer 2008.

Also, Mr. Covington's credits as a producer and manager include Associate Producer for the Department of Special Programming at the Kennedy Center, Coordinator for the Library of Congress Tap Dance Festival, and manager for the Folger Consort at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is currently Director of the US Performing Arts Summer Workshops in Washington DC, an Associate Producer for Metropolitan Fine Arts Center in Alexandria, VA, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Performing Arts Alliance. Mr. Covington is a graduate of American University.

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.

Baayork Lee

Artistic Director

Baayork Lee is currently represented on Broadway through her restaging of the original choreography of A Chorus Line. She has performed in a dozen Broadway shows and created the role of Connie in A Chorus Line. Ms. Lee was Michael Bennett's assistant choreographer on A Chorus Line and has directed many national and international companies. Her directing credits include: The King and I and Bombay Dreams (national tours), R&H's Cinderella (NYC Opera), Barnum (Australia), Carmen Jones (Kennedy Center), Porgy and Bess and Jesus Christ Superstar (European tour), Gypsy and A New Brain. Choreography credits: Arena Stage (Washington, DC): Cocoanuts, Camelot, Damn Yankees, Helen Hayes nomination for Animal Crackers and South Pacific; Washington Opera; Kennedy Center: Goya, Sly and The Merry Widow. Co-author of On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line and recipient of 2003 Asian Woman Warrior Award for Lifetime Achievement from Columbia College. Visit her website achorusline.org

Location Information

Pearl Studios with its beautiful floor to ceiling mirrors and sprung floors teems with Broadway rehearsal activity day and night. Musical Theater Camp students can expect to see current and pre-opening rehearsals in progress as they come and go from their classes. Located in a secure building at 500 8th Avenue between 35th and 36th Pearl Studios is an ideal location to house the training sessions for our Musical Theater and Broadway Conservatory students. Not only will you feel inspired by your faculty and classmates, but you will "rub elbows" with current Broadway stars as you all come and go in the elevators, lounges, and studios.