Join us for Summer Conservatory’s 15th Year!
Each summer Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse offers an intensive 6-week acting experience for high school students grades 10-12. This program is designed for the serious performer who wants to develop the skills for a career in the professional theatre. Tuition for the six-week program (June 29 - August 7, 2009) is $1,800.
The Program
Each week acting students spend 35 hours in intensive training classes which include:
- Scene Study
- Voice and Speech
- Classical Text
- Singing
- Commedia dell'arte
- Movement for the Actor
- Yoga
- Weekly Master Classes provide one-on-one intensive work with faculty
Acting students also have the opportunity to work with the many exciting guest artists who are in residence at the Playhouse during the summer season. Past award-winning artists include: Des McAnuff (Tony), Doug Wright (Tony, Pulitzer), Jefferson Mays (Tony), Frank Galati (Tony), Keith Johnstone (creator of Theatresports), Phelim McDermott (Obie, Laurence Olivier awards), among others. Conservatory students attend rehearsals and La Jolla Playhouse productions.
Meet the Conservatory Director
Kim Walsh, M.F.A. has taught acting, voice and Shakespeare throughout the country and abroad during the last twenty years and currently teaches at UCSD and La Jolla Playhouse. She has acted professionally in film, television and regional theatre, including the Signature Theatre in New York and locally at La Jolla Playhouse. Kim received degrees in theatre from Emerson College in Boston and her M.F.A. in Acting from UCSD.
How to Apply
La Jolla Playhouse is interested in applicants who are willing to take risks, want to be part of an ensemble and have an open mind about new ways to approach material. Tuition for the six-week program is $1,800.
The application for Conservatory includes the application, two letters of recommendation, personal statement and an audition. All materials must be submitted by April 1, 2009. For the audition, applicants should prepare one 1-2 minute contemporary monologue of their age.
Fill out the Online Conservatory Application and please have two letters of recommendation mailed to:
La Jolla Playhouse
Attn: Internship Program
P.O. Box 12039
La Jolla, CA 92039
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La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory Alumni have been accepted into these prestigious drama programs across the country:
- American Academy of Musical and Dramatic Arts
- American Conservatory Theatre
- Amherst College
- Bard College
- Boston Conservatory
- Boston University
- CalArts
- Carnegie Mellon
- College of Santa Fe
- Emerson College
- Julliard
- New York University
- North Carolina School of the Arts
- Northwestern University
- Occidental College
- University of Southern California
- University of California at Los Angeles, Irvine, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Santa Cruz
- Yale University
- They have also performed in major motion pictures, on television and in national tours.
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