Stella Adler Studio: Summer Teenage Conservatory

The Stella Adler Teen Summer Conservatory is a five week, thirty-hour-per-week intensive for 14-18 year olds; it is the most rigorous of its kind.. This demanding program is based on the conviction that young actors can be trained with the same rigor and discipline as adults. The faculty in this program is the same as, or comparable to, the Studio’s Conservatory or NYU Tisch Undergraduate Drama programs.

Actors exercise all the aspects of craft required to achieve the highest professional standards: voice and speech, movement, improvisation, scene study, Shakespeare and acting technique. As with all of the studio’s programs, the Summer Teen Conservatory is informed by the insight that “growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous.” Young people are therefore acquainted not only with core elements of actor training but with the artistic, cultural and humanistic values that support a life in the theater and film.

Admission to the Teen Summer Conservatory is by audition and interview. Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents between the ages 14-18. Housing accommodations are not included, however there are housing options available from third parties for teens ages 16 and older.