SSTI PROGRAMS
Musical Theatre
Production.
SSTI’s nationally ranked musical theatre intensive prepares students for careers in theatre while shaping confident young professionals and outstanding humans.
THE SSTI DIFFERENCE
Training for a career.
FORMAT
Four-week residential production intensive
AGES
Current grades 8-12
2027 DATES
June 7 - July 4, 2027
July 7 - August 1, 2027
TUITION
$7875, including private bedroom housing
DEADLINES
1/8/27 - Early admissions deadline*
3/1/27- Regular admissions deadline
*Students applying early decision are committing their summer to SSTI and paying full tuition by January 28, 2027.
SSTI PROGRAMS
Shaping
People &
Performers
We expect a lot from our students, and we invest just as much in them. Our companies stay small so every student is known, challenged, and coached individually. Our faculty are here because they know how to push young artists forward.
You’ll strengthen your craft and your college audition material while learning what it means to be a dependable member of a company: prepared, responsible, collaborative, and ready to work. That’s the standard at SSTI—and in the professional rehearsal room.
The Process
SSTI combines professional production with college audition coaching. Leading theatre professionals and educators guide the process from rehearsal room to orchestra pit, building the collaboration, discipline, and independence needed for college and beyond.
Preparing Before Arrival
Self-tape auditions give you practice with the process used in professional and college pre-screens. Production casting happens each spring, after the admissions deadline. You’ll arrive off-book, with your role already assigned, ready to begin rehearsing together as a team from day one.
Rehearsing the Show
The first two weeks follow an Equity-style rehearsal process with professional directors, choreographers, and music directors, building to a pre-tech run for our design team on day eleven. Cast sizes reflect a professional production of each musical, giving every performer a full production experience, whatever their role.
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Tech Week and Performances
During tech week, a full professional orchestra joins the cast as scenery, costumes, wigs, lighting, and sound come together on the SSTI stage. It's a week of press, photoshoots, and preparation as thousands of cues are coordinated for an opening night in front of SSTI's season subscribers and local fans.
College Audition Coaching
Once the show opens, daily one-on-one and small-group coaching and masterclasses with college professors help you develop songs and monologues and understand the college audition process. Faculty vary each summer; past visiting professors frequently represent top programs like Texas State, Baldwin Wallace, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon.
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STUDENT LIFE AT SSTI
Come into
your own.
Find Your People.
Live and work alongside career-focused young artists who share your passions and ambition.
Make Yourself at Home.
Settle into college-style apartment housing featuring private bedrooms and full kitchens.
Build Your Independence.
Manage your schedules, prep your lunches, and learn to share a home together with others.
Trust in Yourself.
Take chances in your work and discover what you’re capable of, with a community that knows and celebrates you.
A day on
campus
There is so much packed into each day at SSTI, with each week more packed than the last. Here's a sample of an early-program day, before tech and performances.
START OF DAY
Breakfast at housing, pack your lunch, and prepare for your calls. The company gathers at the theatre for morning Circle Time before rehearsals begin.
MORNING
Scene work, music, and choreography with the professional creative team across multiple studios. Rehearsals move between staging, ensemble vocals, and refining choreography as you develop your track within the production.
MIDDAY
Lunch with the company and a break before afternoon calls. Rehearsal spaces are open for you to take this extra time to review your notes and prepare for the next rehearsal.
AFTERNOON
Music and choreography calls run simultaneously, with performers moving between assigned rehearsals. As the show takes shape, the company progresses into full runs and finally a designer run, bringing the creative and design teams together ahead of tech week.
EVENING
Evening Circle Time and dinner bring the company back together. Often our performers will have costume and wig fittings or promo commitments, followed by company activities or time at housing to review material, recharge, and connect with friends.
During tech week, the cast moves onstage with the professional orchestra and production departments for technical and dress rehearsals. After opening, college coaching and masterclasses with visiting professors become part of the daytime schedule around public performances.
APPLYING TO SSTI MUSICAL THEATRE:
Show us what makes you, you.
Your application requirements:
Your audition is a chance to share your voice, your movement, and your personality.
Prepare these three short elements, then upload them when completing your application through Acceptd.
A phone camera is all you need.
Shaping Professionals,
On-Stage and Off.
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