Two weeks in New York City where your teen trains like a professional. Ten instruction days of acting, musical theatre, voice, dance, and stage combat with NYPAA Faculty, plus a Circle Line cruise, a Broadway show, and a studio recording session they take home. Ages 13–17, no audition required.
Two weeks in New York City where your young performer trains like a professional — real studios, real faculty, and a recording session in a working production house.
Program Highlights
- Comprehensive Training: Intensive work in Acting, Musical Theatre, Voice, Dance, Stage Combat, and Stage to Studio, taught by working professionals in fully equipped studios.
- Stage to Studio: Rehearse a number across the two weeks, then record it in a professional studio at The Academy of Music Production. The recording day is yours alone — nothing else is scheduled against it.
- Advanced Cohort Track: Returning and advanced students split into their own sessions — Advanced Scene Lab, On-Camera Lab, Studio & Mic Technique Lab, and a Representation Readiness Session — while first-year students get the foundational version of the same hour.
- Career Preparation: The Business of You and Personalized Career Path Planning put structure around what happens after the program ends.
- Agent & Manager Meetings: The capstone of the two weeks. A critique-based master class with agents and managers who work with performers every day. This is professional feedback, not agent placement.
- New York City Itself: A Circle Line Landmarks Cruise, a Director’s Choice Broadway Show, and the Moments & Memories Student Dinner — all attended by both cohorts together.
2027 Program Schedule Overview — Uptown Service, Ages 13–17
- Day 1: Dance, Student Orientation, Musical Theatre.
- Day 2: Circle Line Landmarks Cruise, Voice Technique, Stage to Studio Rehearsal.
- Day 3: Musical Theatre, Acting Intensive, Advanced Scene Lab, Broadway Show.
- Day 4: Dance Intensive, Voice Intensive, Musical Theatre.
- Day 5: Musical Theatre Intensive, Acting Intensive, Advanced Scene Lab, Voice Technique, Studio & Mic Technique Lab.
- Day 6: Student day — no scheduled classes. Rest, explore the city, or catch up with family.
- Day 7: Student day — no scheduled classes. Rest, explore the city, or catch up with family.
- Day 8: Stage to Studio Rehearsal, The Business of You, Voice & Diction, Vocal Coaching.
- Day 9: Stage to Studio Intensive, Stage Combat, Self-Tape & Audition Reel Workshop, On-Camera Lab.
- Day 10: Recording at The Academy of Music Production.
- Day 11: Personalized Career Path Planning, Representation Readiness Session, Moments & Memories Student Dinner.
- Day 12: Agent & Manager Meetings.
71.5 scheduled program hours across ten instruction days, Monday through Friday over two weeks. The full day-by-day schedule, with times, is published at uptown.mysummer.nyc.
Why Choose The NYPAA Experience?
- Balanced by Design: Both tracks run mirrored schedules. Every class carries the same instruction time in Uptown Service as it does in Downtown Service — no cohort gets the shorter version of anything.
- Expert Instruction: NYPAA Faculty are working professionals who bring current industry practice into the room.
- Prime Location: NYPAA Studios sit blocks from the Broadway houses, with the city’s audition rooms and rehearsal spaces on the same few streets.
- All Levels Welcome: First-year and advanced students train side by side, with dedicated splits so nobody is held back or left behind.
- Nonprofit Program: The NYPAA operates under The MusicSquared Foundation, a 501(c)(3). Tuition supports a mission-driven training program, not a commercial tour operator.
Join Us for an Unforgettable Summer
The NYPAA Experience is a performing arts training program, not a tour. Two weeks of real instruction, a recording you keep, professional feedback from people who hire performers, and a company of peers who take it as seriously as you do.
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Each cohort is capped so that studio time stays usable and every student is seen. Applications are reviewed as they arrive.
Written for families. Students ages 13–17 train as their own cohort on their own floor, with supervision throughout the program day.

