The Powerhouse Theater Training Program - Accepting Applications

Powerhouse Theater
Poughkeepsie, NY
US

CONTACT NAME

Michael Sheehan

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Accepting applications for 2026 The Powerhouse Theater Training Program!

Disciplines available in acting, directing and playwriting.

About the Powerhouse Theater Training Program
The Training Program (June 18 - July 26, 2026) offers students a unique opportunity to dive headfirst into a conservatory-like intensive on the Vassar College campus. Actors, directors, and writers hone their respective crafts through both class work and practical experiences. By engaging with professional theater companies and artists who are in residence each summer, students deepen their understanding of the art and the industry. A summer at Powerhouse exposes students to new theater making possibilities through a process of self-discovery.

The five week program includes:
- Conservatory style classes with leading professionals
- Training program productions - both classic and contemporary works
- Full access to professional season
- Master classes with well-known theater artists
- Room and board (private room and 3 meals per day)

For more information, please visit vassar.edu/powerhouse/training-program

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Submit an application at app.getacceptd.com/powerhousetheater

About Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College
Celebrating the 40th Season in 2026, Powerhouse Theater (Ed Cheetham, Michael Sheehan, Producing Directors) is dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new works. For six weeks every summer, the Powerhouse Theater Program comes to life on the Vassar College campus to provide a nurturing environment in which passionate theater lovers from students to professional practitioners and audience members learn from one another. The Powerhouse Theater Training Program provides aspiring theater professionals a chance to immerse themselves in acting, directing, and playwriting. The program’s Training Program also offers free performances throughout the season. The Powerhouse program, along with its partner theater institutions and individual artists, creates a crucial community—one that gives time, space and voice to artists of the American theater.

Recent projects that have premiered in New York City developed by Powerhouse include: Galileo (Broadway - upcoming), Messy White Gays (Off-Broadway), The Notebook (Broadway), The Connector (MCC Theatre), birthday, birthday, birthday (The Tank), annA (Stella Adler), Canaan Unremembered (Theatre East), Luna and the Starbodies (Lincoln Center), Sweet Chariot (The Public), Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop), Diana (Broadway), Head Over Heels (Broadway) The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theatre Company), The Great Leap (Atlantic Theatre Company), Alice by Heart (MCC Theatre), A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse), and The Wolves (Lincoln Center Theater). Other projects developed at the Powerhouse include the Tony Award-winning Side Man and Tru; the multi-award-winning Doubt by John Patrick Shanley; the groundbreaking Broadway musical Hamilton; and Stephen Karam’s The Humans.