New York City Semester

Last week our NYCT Semester in the City students got to have lunch with 6 King's alumni that are working in Theater in NYC: 1 Broadway dancer, I Broadway producer. 2 Equity Stage Managers, 1 Theater Marketing Firm, 1 Playwright, and 1 Actor. All working. All fabulous.
In addition, these students have had guest speakers in class who are Broadway Producers, Theater Agents, Artistic Directors, Press Agents, and Stage Managers.
It's been an exciting first half of the semester.

Our NYCT students seeing Hadestown. For all but one, this was their first show.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I'm happy to share that we have a few spaces left for our NYCT Semester in the City cohort in the fall, and we have extended the application deadline to May 1.

NYC Theater is up and running and the excitement is palpable. I myself have seen Confederates, Passover, Letters to Suresh,Skeleton Crew, Dear Evan Hansen, Jagged Little Pill, and had the pleasure of moderating a panel in which Dominique Morisseau director Stori Ayers spoke about Sea Dog Theater's reading of Pipeline. In addition, I've begun a commission from The Director's Theater that I hope I'll be able to get students involved in. As always, we are excited to pair up our Semester students with theater companies around the city where students can gain an understanding of what it means to be a theater professional in NYC.

We'll be offering classes in Contemporary Theater, Dramatic Writing, The Business of NYC Theater, Music Theater Studio, Acting Practicum, Dance Practicum, and Theater Internships.

Check out our website and let me know if you have any students I should connect with.

Best,
Chris

Excited to announce that we have accepted 3 promising students into our NYCT Semester in the City program for the fall. Hannah Martin from the University of Northwestern-St. Paul, Sommer Schaap from Dordt University, and Daniel Carpenter from Mount Vernon Nazarene University! Looking forward to an exciting semester!

Today, at 1:30pm EST, actor Larry Powell will be joining Professor Cragin-Day's Contemporary Theater class to talk about his experience working with Lucas Hnath on THE CHRISTIANS!

NYCT Director, Professor Cragin-Day, had the pleasure of speaking on a Master Media panel about story telling at King's this past week, along with Showtime Producer Marc Youngblood, Literary Director Seth Parks, and Fox 5 sports broadcaster Tina Cervasia.

Friends, this past Saturday I saw the show PASS OVER on Broadway and it was beautiful. The play has a brand new ending that is uniquely redemptive. I highly recommend coming out to support this play by a Christian playwright before it closes!

Pass Over Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's acclaimed play makes its Broadway premiere.

Two NYCT students with their Meisner Acting teacher at. MCS Studio.

NYCT Semester students at the Stone Street Tavern, one of the oldest restaurants in America!

NYCT student, Lydia Stafford, has been invited to write a piece for the Matthew Corozine Studio 48 hour play festival which will be presented for an audience at their studio theater later this semster!

NYCT Student, Becca Jamison, gets advice on her graphic novel from award winning comic book author, Jim Krueger.

NYCT Students had the pleasure of talking with guest speakers Bruce Long (Broadway Producer) and Christie Evangelisto (Associate Artistic Director 2nd Stage) this week in their Business of NYC Theater and Contemporary Theater classes!