One day, the American stage and screen will truly reflect the America in which we live.

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WHO WE ARE
Broadway For All is a non-profit organization in NYC that strategically selects talented middle and high school students from various socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds to participate in a summer conservatory tuition-free, led entirely by Broadway and TV/Film professionals. Originally conceived and developed with a Presidential Public Service Fellowship from Harvard University's Office of the President, Broadway For All trains talented students to become the next generation of competitively diverse performers and writers for the American stage and screen. 

WHY WE EXIST

• Young artists from different economic and cultural backgrounds should have the opportunity to train together because college shouldn't be the first time they have diverse interactions.
• Serious lack of low-income and people-of-color artists on the American stage and screen.
• As national academic priorities have shifted the focus to high stakes testing and school accountability, arts funding has been cut drastically, particularly in low-income neighborhoods.
• Most exposure to the arts has been relegated to weak out-of-school programs which often charges tuition that puts it out the range of students and parents, and often in segregated neighborhoods (based on race and class).
• Pipeline of talent from all over the city that has not been tapped, and the Broadway and TV/Film industry is missing out on gifted performers, especially students from our most under-served neighborhoods.

SUMMER CONSERVATORY DETAILS

TUITION-FREE for ALL participants

• We recruit students from a wide range of fiscal and ethnic backgrounds
• Training for five weeks from 10am-4pm near Lincoln Center
• Faculty of Broadway and TV/Film actors
• Current Training Divisions: Drama & Musical Theatre
• Morning classes focusing on technique in: (Drama) Acting Technique, Acting on Camera, Shakespeare, Voice & Diction, Improvisation/Viewpoints and (Musical Theatre) Acting Technique, Acting the Song, Vocal Technique, Dance
• Afternoon rehearsals for a world premiere play and musical which will premiere in a Broadway Distrcit theatre space.
• Field trips to see professional productions
• Audition prep for middle school students to gain admission into the top arts high schools with whom we have direct relationships.
• Audition prep for high school student past participants gain admissions into top arts colleges
  
• Industry workshops (resumé writing, audition technique, and casting director/agent sessions) to enable our students to enter the industry prepared.

WHY WE NEED YOUR HELP

Broadway For All will launch a new Dramatic Writing Division for Summer 2015.
You can be a part of our special history.

DRAMATIC WRITING DIVISION DETAILS

• 15 students (split between middle and high school ages) will take ten, 90-minute classes every weekday morning in: Playwriting, Screenwriting, TV Writing, and Sketch Comedy.
• They will spend their afternoons workshopping their pieces for a staged reading of their work by professional actors in a Broadway District Theatre space.
• They will leave the conservatory with the following: a one-act play, a screenplay or TV pilot, short sketch comedies and a resumé.

INDUSTRY RESULTS
After our conservatory showcases:

• BFA student artists currently starring in Lincoln Center's The King and I and Paper Mill Playhouse's Elf: The Musical
• BFA student artists recruited by agents/mangers after our 2014 showcase and currently in callbacks for Broadway shows and TV shows on Nickelodeon.
• BFA student artists now working with Pulse Music and Tribeca Film Institute
• Broadway For All's commissioned playwright, Andy Boyd (Harvard alumnus) published his original play, Fire God Shows You the Ropes, by Youth Plays. Broadway For All students originated these roles. 

BROADWAY & TV/FILM FACULTY
Joyce Chittick--Broadway: Cabaret, Anything Goes, Pajama Game
Dustyn Gulledge--TV: Person of Interest, Silicon Valley, Forever, Gilded Lilys;
Broadway: Lucky Guy, starring Tom Hanks
Veronica Kuehn--Broadway: Avenue Q, Mamma Mia, Xanadu
Kristolyn Lloyd--TV: ER, The Bold and the Beautiful, Lie to Me, 40;
Off-Broadway/Regional: Heathers The Musical, Rent, Witness Uganda
Chelsea Packard--Broadway: Wicked, Promises, Promises, Hands on a Hard Body
Geoff Packard--Broadway: Matilda, Wicked, Rock of Ages, Phantom of the Opera
Jeff Pew--Broadway: Cinderella, Billy Elliot, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Courtney Reed--Broadway: Jasmine in Aladdin, In the Heights, Mamma Mia;
TV/Film: White Collar, A Love Story, Law & Order: SVU, 68th Annual Tony Awards
Troy Woodcroft--Broadway: Mamma Mia, Cat
Leah Zepel--Broadway: Mamma Mia