HARTT COMMUNITY DIVISION
ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR
2013 SUMMER VOCAL INSTITUTE:
MUSICAL THEATRE INTENSIVE PROGRAM
Personalized Musical Theatre Program for Young Performers Grades 8 to 12
Singers, dancers, and actors: Mark your calendars! This summer, The Hartt School Community Division will host the Summer Vocal Institute: Musical Theatre Intensive (SVI: MTI) from July 1 through July 12. A new team of experienced and enthusiastic professionals, including Artistic Director Stuart Younse and Music Director Emmett Drake, will create a whole new experience for SVI: MTI participants in our new location, Hartt’s state-of-the-art theatre and dance facility, the Handel Performing Arts Center, located at 35 Westbourne Parkway in Hartford, CT. For more information, visit
hcd.hartford.edu.
Designed especially for students in grades 8 to 12, SVI: MTI provides unique opportunities for young performers to develop and integrate their acting, singing, and dancing skills; connect with industry professionals; and learn about different aspects of the musical theatre business.
Along with daily acting, dance, and voice classes, participants study, rehearse, and perform musical scenes chosen specifically for them by the experienced SVI: MTI directors, resulting in a public performance at the end of the program. The theme of this year’s program is It’s All About Relationships. Students will explore dramatic relationships on stage and develop relationships offstage with professionals from the world of musical theatre.
Auditions for SVI: MTI will take place at The Hartt School, University of Hartford:
More information about audition requirements, location, faculty, and the SVI: MTI schedule is available at:
hcd.hartford.edu
Guest faculty confirmed for 2013 include:
Janelle Robinson, Voice and Acting – Veteran Broadway performer Janelle Anne Robinson has enjoyed an ongoing professional career on operatic and musical theater stages. Janelle's recent credits include the Broadway productions of Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's Mary Poppins at The New Amsterdam Theater, NYC, directed by the award-winning Sir Richard Eyre, in which she originated the role of Mrs. Corry. Janelle taught at Juilliard's summer exchange program, and has been an adjunct faculty member at The Hartt School and the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.
Robert H. Davis, Acting, Voice, and Speech Instructor – Mr. Davis is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher, Professor of Theatre at The Hartt School, and an award-winning teacher with more than 25 years of experience as a professional actor, director, and voice/dialect coach. Davis has worked with regional theatres across the country including Shakespeare & Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, the Monomoy Theatre on Cape Cod, and Swine Palace Productions in Louisiana. He received a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for his performance in The Exonerated at TheaterWorks of Hartford and has appeared regularly at Hartford Stage.
Kim Graham, Master Class Teacher – This Award Winning Casting Director received Emmy and Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series for Homeland, the 2012 Winner of The Golden Globe for Best New Series. Ms. Graham has been a Casting Director with Judy Henderson Casting since 2003. Ms. Graham also teaches at various venues in NYC, including The Network, Actor’s Connection, Breakthrough Studios, and One on One Productions, as well as her own classes in Audition Techniques, Film Acting, and Voice-overs.
Kristen Schoen-Rene, Choreographer / Dance Instructor – Soon after earning her B.F.A. in Dance from The Ailey School/Fordham University Kristen became a Radio City Rockette. She has appeared in productions ofMark Twain the Musical, Oklahoma, Writing Pictures: the Harriett Beecher Stowe Project, Evita, and 42nd Street, and was a dancer and the assistant company manager for Kazuko Hirabayashi Dance Theater in New York City. She toured as a dancer for L’Oreal Professionnel. Choreography credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Kristen has taught dance classes at The Hartt School Community Division, Stafford Academy of Dance, and The Ailey School’s Junior Division. She recently completed the National Tour of Young Frankenstein the Musical.
Emma Tattenbaum–Fine, Acting Instructor / Drama Coach – One of the most popular SVI: MTI faculty members, brings a wealth of experience to our students each year. As a writer and performer, Emma appears weekly at The People’s Improv Theater in NYC with the award-winning sketch group Political Subversities. Her work has been featured by
MoveOn.org, Huffington Post, Gawker, and as a "Critic's Pick" in Time Out New York. Her webisode, “JEGGINGS: The Official Music Video,” spread across the internet by way of online fashion channels
AXE.com, NY Fashion Mag, and fashion blogs
Jezebel.com and
Cocperez.com. She has toured nationally with Chamber Repertory Theatre and has worked as an intern on CNBC's McEnroe and onSaturday Night Live. She is an alumna of Hammerkatz NYU ("Critic’s Pick," Time Out New York 2005) and has performed at the UCB Theatre, at Joe's Pub for Tru TV, and in the Israeli documentary "Soul Tripping," about American Jews experiencing Birthright. Her sketch videos are currently part of a series featured on the DIGS Channel.
Hartt Community Division faculty members will round out the faculty for the program. Other prominent guest artists will be added to the faculty before the start of the program. Guest artists from past years include Alan Held from the Metropolitan Opera; Craig Schulman from Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Jekyll and Hyde; Lisa Rohinsky from Gypsy; Wendy Cavett from Mama Mia; Sarah Pfisterer, from The Phantom of the Opera andShowboat; and actor/director Kirby Ward from the West End’s Crazy for You and many other Broadway productions.
The Hartt School Community Division of the University of Hartford is a comprehensive community arts school providing instruction in music and dance for individuals of all ages and experience levels. It is a division of The Hartt School, one of the seven colleges of the University of Hartford. The Community Division is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Community and Pre-College Art Schools, is an active member of National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, and is viewed as a national model for community schools based on university campuses. It is one of the largest and most evolved programs of its kind in the country.
The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. Founded in 1920, Hartt has been an integral part of the University of Hartford since its charter merged the then Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Art School, and Hillyer College to create the University in 1957. 2010 marked Hartt’s 90th year of providing world class performing arts education to students in Greater-Hartford and around the world. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt’s curriculum. For more information about The Hartt School, visit
www.hartford.edu/hartt.
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