This newly created program is a professional
theatre-training studio offered at the Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate
Department of Drama. New Studio
integrates foundational acting training in vocal and physical techniques by
drawing upon both the repertoire of the American musical and the classical
acting canon to hone the actors’ instrument in all aspects of both disciplines.
The course of study emphasizes exposure to new work, world music, and contemporary,
global, diverse performance forms. Teaching students the power and value of the
ensemble, the young practitioners of both acting and music theatre will have
their core acting, speech and movement classes together. The New Studio
stresses a unified training in all skill areas essential to the performer’s
craft. This will equip young
artists to meet the fluid demands of a progressive, diverse and global stage.
New Studio focuses on the union of rigorous physical and
vocal training always connected to the manifestation of character, the clear
playing of a dramatic action, and the illumination of ideas within the text, as
these are the fundamentals of the actor’s process. Rather than embracing and espousing a single methodology or
approach, classes offer practical application of competencies required for an
actor to develop a dynamic versatility that will enable them to fluidly move through
a range of performance idioms. Our
objective is to provide the actor with the requisite skill set necessary to sustain
a lifelong career as a professional actor, at play with global audiences
onstage, in the musical theatre, in the new technologies and in whatever lies
beyond. Master artist/teachers
working in the field at a national and international level will teach all
courses.
Acting courses will progress through a sequenced layered curriculum to instill the fundamentals of Acting through exercises, monologues, and a variety of approaches to scene study, directed towards honest, clear and truthful characterization and performance.
All courses will be taught with an emphasis on the music theatre as a collaborative holistic art form requiring proficiency in acting, music, and dance.
During the months of planning the structure, curriculum and learning goals of the New Studio, Tisch leadership brought together a remarkable group of distinguished artists, producers and theatre professionals to advise on content and direction and to offer their expertise in recruiting faculty for the New Studio. They have each committed to remaining engaged with the evolution of the New Studio evolution. For example, Sutton Foster will be teaching a full course in the spring of 2010. We are grateful to them for their significant contribution to date.
The establishment of the New Studio on
Broadway brings dedicated resources from within NYU to create brand new
facilities that in addition to teaching studio space, include presentation
spaces for full length work as well as cabaret and on site private voice
studios, which we were unable to provide in the past.
NYU, Tisch School of the
Arts, Department of Drama solicits applications for five Arts Professors (open
rank including Visiting) for the recently founded New Studio on Broadway: Music
Theatre and Acting. The first New Studio class will begin in academic year
2010.
