Applications are now closed for Summer 2025.

Dates: July 18 – August 1, 2025

Location: Baldwin Wallace University, Ohio

Tuition: $4,500

Room & Board: $1,550

*Need-based scholarship is available for tuition and application fee. You can learn more on our FAQ page. Contact us with questions at programs@artsbridge.com. Students must be at least 15 years old to participate.

Course Descriptions

*Please note that the following are sample course descriptions. Final course descriptions will be provided to students in the spring.

What Does Your Song Do? Do It. Practical tools for creating active performances in Musical Theater.: As actors who sing, we tell stories musically, but that doesn’t mean we lose the dramatic details of our performance. We will explore characterization by defining Relationships, Conflict and Tactics. We will learn how to tell vibrant stories by concentrating on the journey of the song, and work on physical embodiment and vocal style as additional tools for transformation that further enhance our work.

Ace Your Audition: This class will examine every facet of audition technique whether you’re taping your prescreen or auditioning live in the room. We will examine the skills you already have, from your professionalism, your ability to pick repertoire which best represents you, your song preparation, and how you present the material. We will expand and enhance those skills to help you approach every audition with skill, technique, control, and confidence.  Coachings will also include an exploration of the idea that there is not only one way to do a song.

The Fundamentals of Acting: This course will focus on the process of developing a strong acting technique through individual work, partnered exercises, and scripted material. Students will learn the value of grounding oneself in a Reality. 

Viewpoints: Students will engage in a vigorous physical warm up at the top of every class designed to increase the actor’s use of breath and sound, focus and presence. This class will include ensemble-based exercises and improvisations based on Viewpoints training that will bring each unique ensemble of actors together in an impulsive moment-to-moment playground to ready the body, voice, and mind for our acting work.

Musical Theater Lectures: In this course you will learn the basics of vocal anatomy, discuss effective practice strategies, and work through a wide variety of styles and techniques for musical theatre singing.

Musical Theater Dance: We will begin to train the body as an instrument of creative expression by way of exercises building strength, form and flexibility, while developing intricate body isolations. The class will explore elements of ballet, jazz, modern and African dance.

Private Voice Lessons: Students will receive private voice lessons to address vocal technique, working on new material and individualized instruction. Each student will have two private voice lessons.