<p>Thank you, this is what I was looking for. Location is farther, but looks like I could manage it. :)</p>
<p>I also wanted to thank everybody on this thread for your help, :)</p>
<p>I really like UMinn’s program and they offer a full scholarship too! Who knows? Maybe I could do UMinn and ASC, if I get a scholarship! I couldn’t find much info on UM, but it also looks good. Thanks again everybody :)</p>
<p>Try to keep in mind, however, that programs that are not in your region of the country will entail plane flight costs whereas ones in the Southeast might be driven to. You have to look at total cost to attend. If your parents have a budget, you need to get into what that is and what it is meant to include.</p>
<p>Yep, that’s why it may not be ideal. If I get a scholarship, then maybe. But we can get some free miles from grandparents, up to them though. I do like that UMinn has people from Guthrie teaching though. Virginia is a lot closer and wouldn’t need to drive there.</p>
<p>Early College: Yes, I know about the La Jolla Playhouse Conservatory. My D attended it the summer after her freshman year in high school.</p>
<p>It is by audition, application and recommendation only. I think the audition was in March or April, but don’t quote me on that. If you get in, and you fill out paperwork, you can earn four college credits.</p>
<p>You go every day for for a full day for six weeks. At the end of the time, there is a presentation. They also attended plays at the Playhouse and the Old Globe here in San Diego.</p>
<p>They had movement, voice, singing, acting, acting (Shakespeare), another kind of movement class (Baldenkris?), and dell’arte. </p>
<p>The teachers mostly teach for UCSD in the drama department or are known around San Diego as teaching artists.</p>
<p>My D was lucky and at her high school the same instructors kept teaching her for the rest of her high school years because her high school had a special affiliation with the La Jolla Playhouse. They asked my D to come back the next summer, but she wanted to have FUN her next summer…</p>
<p>As my D put it, she learned that summer to “be tough”. She learned what it really took to be an actor. The kids in the summer before her and her summer that we know about are at NYU, Northwestern and UCLA, studying theatre/acting.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response chrissy. After doing more research, it seems like there is no housing like the other programs and seems more for the locals. I am on the other side of the coast, lol. It does look like a good program though and again thanks!</p>
<p>Carnegie-Mellon’s program is six weeks and expensive, but there is an opportunity for scholarship applicants. This requires a more rigorous application (you need to audition, whereas for full pay you don’t). </p>
<p>You can also keep this in mind for next year, as the program is geared towards audition preparation. It is an intense, but wonderful program.</p>
<p>chrissyblu:</p>
<p>I’m quite sure the movement technique they taught at La Jolla was Feldenkrais Method. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article:</p>
<p>[Feldenkrais</a> Method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldenkrais_Method]Feldenkrais”>Feldenkrais Method - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>And here’s a link to their site:</p>
<p>[The</a> Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education](<a href=“http://www.feldenkrais.com/]The”>http://www.feldenkrais.com/)</p>
<p>Many actor-training programs have a specialist on staff certified in Feldenkrais or Alexander Technique.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Thanks SDon.</p>
<p>Early College, I went to the MPulse Theatre & Drama program at UMich, so if you have any questions about it let me know. I absolutely loved it</p>
<p>Thanks Claire! Can you answer a couple questions for me?</p>
<ol>
<li><p>What is the typical age of the students at the camp</p></li>
<li><p>What was your typical routine each day. </p></li>
<li><p>Any scholarships available for the camp?</p></li>
<li><p>Compared to other programs you have been to, better or worse?</p></li>
<li><p>Anything else I should know?</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Thanks I really did not find much info on it on the website. I found a lot more info on UMinn’s site, lol.</p>
<p>Thanks, Doctorjohn… I wasn’t sure… I know they had two different movement instructors, each trained in a different method.</p>
<p>Thanks Claire! Can you answer a couple questions for me?</p>
<ol>
<li><p>What is the typical age of the students at the camp
Rising juniors and seniors, and I think there were one or two rising sophomores.</p></li>
<li><p>What was your typical routine each day.
Every day we would have around four or five BFA-style classes. In the morning we had Movement & Improv or Stage Combat, then Acting for the Camera, then Voice alternating with Play Analysis, then Acting 1/Scene Study. In the evening the counselors in the residence halls had things for us to do, and we would hang out and talk. We also had a Q&A session/lesson with Brent Wagner, who is the head of UMich’s Musical Theatre department, and saw other MPulse students’ recitals etc. On the weekends we went to UMich’s central campus in Ann Arbor (which is where all the action is), went to a lake nearby, and had some classes and rehearsals. We had final showcase at the end, but one of the things I liked about the program was that the focus was more on learning instead of preparing for the final show.</p></li>
<li><p>Any scholarships available for the camp?
Yes, I received a scholarship</p></li>
<li><p>Compared to other programs you have been to, better or worse?
The best I’ve been to =).</p></li>
<li><p>Anything else I should know?
Because of UMich’s standing in the theatre world I was intimidated going in. But as soon as I got there I couldn’t believe how nurturing and positive they are while still being honest with you. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>If there’s anything else you need to know ask away. =)</p>
<p>UCLA´s 6 week summer intensive was amazing. i had the best summer of my life there; you meet great people, you are in a great city at a wonderful time of the year, and most importantly, you acting abilities will improve so much! they have fantastic teachers who focus on your individual abilities, and you grow so much as an actor and as a person by going there.</p>
<p>Thanks Claire! I did not see anywhere on the website, that talked about scholarships. Did you get it after you auditioned? Thanks again and it looks good. I’m thinking about which program is better for me. </p>
<p>Drama- Thanks!</p>
<p>Yeah they sent me an acceptance packet with like an invoice on it, and that’s where I found out. They never officially informed me or anything, it was a little surprising!</p>
<p>Thanks! I liked the fact that at UMinn you can apply for the scholarship before you have been accepted. I will have to ask Mich now.</p>
<p>I just looked at the NHSI program and it looks great (though expensive!). I notice that they have an audition elective in the afternoon. I guess my question as to all these summer programs is how helpful they are in helping a rising senior prepare for the college auditions?</p>
<p>^^^Not all summer programs are directly involved in audition prep for college auditions. If you really care about that or that is one of your objectives, then you need to examine the curriculum and program closely. For example, I believe that Carnegie Mellon’s Pre-College program does work on audition prep. </p>
<p>In my opinion, that would not be a criteria that I’d use for selecting a summer theater program. I’d see it as more training, experience, and an opportunity to be immersed in a theater intensive. Audition prep can happen in other ways, such as all fall of senior year with a coach/teacher. My own child, who recently graduated from a BFA program, went to a summer theater program out of state for 8 full summers (Stagedoor Manor) and they did not do audition prep for college. However, her experiences there were invaluable in terms of the training, the level of the productions, the sharing with others with a similar passion, the experience of an intensive program (BFAs are also intensive), and played a very significant role in her development in this field. As far as college auditions go, she worked with a voice teacher and a monologue coach back home to prep for college auditions and did well in her admissions results.</p>
<p>PS, Northwestern’s NHSI (Cherubs) is excellent and I have had many students attend and love it and they are now in excellent college theater programs but I don’t recall them focusing on audition prep at NHSI.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon’s stated focus is audition prep, but really the summer program was intensive training all around. It didn’t seem like they really focused on the monologues until the last two weeks. At the end of the program, the students audition before a panel, which includes the teachers in the program. Unlike some of the other programs, though, they do not stage a production, although there were performance opportunities. The idea of the program is to give students a feel for what a college conservatory program would be like.</p>