Program Overview

Program Overview

The Summer High School Program is a condensed version of the professional training in the Undergraduate Drama program, which emphasizes the process, not the product. You’ll be challenged to learn and grow as artists alongside artists from around the world. You’ll see specifically-selected Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and have access to the vast array of artistic resources in New York City.

Core Curriculum

Each week you will have 28 hours of studio conservatory training in the studio you select - the Atlantic Acting School, the Experimental Theatre Wing, the Meisner Studio, the New Studio on Broadway, the Stonestreet Screen Acting Studios, or in the Production and Design Studio. The studio training is taught by the same faculty that teaches in the BFA program.

Studios

• Atlantic Acting School: THEA-UT 468.001 | 4 units
  • The Atlantic Technique: Simple, honest and straightforward, Practical Aesthetics is both an acting technique and a philosophy.
• Experimental Theatre Wing: THEA-UT 480 | 4 units
  • The Experimental Theatre Wing is a unique, physically based acting program with an international reputation for developing creative artists, courageous actors at ease in their bodies, who are alive to new ideas.
• Meisner: THEA-UT 470 | 4 units
  • The core curriculum leads the actors through a progressive and organized process to train the acting instrument by strengthening and challenging all the basic areas of actor training.
• New Studio Summer Music Theatre Program: THEA-UT 475 | 4 units
  • The primary focus of the New Studio on Broadway is the training of grounded, open, courageous actors -- who additionally possess the facilities of singing and dance.
• Production and Design Summer Workshop: THEA-UT 465 | 4 units
  • The Production and Design Workshop offered through the Department of Undergraduate Drama is for the student who wants to pursue a career in the design, technical, management and other production areas of the performing arts.
• Stonestreet Screen Acting Workshop: THEA-UT 485 | 4 units
  • The Stonestreet Screen Acting Workshop (SSAW) is a unique and comprehensive program that has pioneered the art and craft of screen acting since its inception in 1990.

New York Theatre

THEA-UT 860 | 2 units

• All students will be registered in this course.
• This weekly theatre studies seminar is taught by NYU faculty.

Program Dates

• Summer 2026: Sunday, July 5, 2026 - Saturday, August 1, 2026

Tuition and Fees

• Summer 2026:
  • Tuition for 6 units (credits): $12,012
  • Program Fee (activities facilitated by Residential Life & Housing): $200
  • Housing for 4 weeks: TBA
  • 10 meals a week for 4 weeks: $824
  • Drama Ticket Fee: $474

Housing

• Students accepted to the Tisch Summer High School program live in NYU housing.
• Per NYU policy, students must be at least 15 to reside in housing for this program.

Scholarships

• Tisch has a limited number of scholarships for high school students to attend the Tisch summer programs.
• Scholarships are given to students who demonstrate the most financial need.

Admissions

• The summer 2026 application deadline is December 1, 2025.
• Open to high school sophomores and juniors.
• Online application fee: $75
• You may only apply to one studio.