WHAT

The Broadway Teachers Workshop is an annual conference designed to inspire teachers and directors with new teaching methods, enhanced production skills and an exchange of ideas with peers and professional Broadway artists behind the scenes on Broadway in New York City.

Over three days, participants see four Broadway shows and have their choice of 18 workshops & master classes with Broadway’s finest artists as well as peer networking. Participants may elect to add on a One Day Intensive in Directing, Choreography, Music Direction or Technical Design.

All participants receive a letter certifying 30 hours of Professional Development and have the option to simultaneously earn 3 Graduate Level Credits through UNLV.

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The Workshops

Our workshops offer a unique blend of inspiration, creative replenishment, and methodology/best practices from Broadway – applied to your program for enhanced classroom learning.

Check out the 2025 Workshop lineup*:

• Directing/Staging Group Scenes:  Your guide to organizing the chaos of large group scenes. Learn simple and straightforward methods that help you create dynamic, focused stage pictures that allow students to feel engaged as creative collaborators.
• Directing/Focus on Text (Stranger Things): Working with a resident director, this session will focus on directing student actors in a scene from one of the Broadway shows we are seeing.
• Playwriting: Finding Your Voice Exercises and methods to help you – and your students – find your unique voice as artists and storytellers.
• Musical Theatre/Acting Through Song: Led by a distinguished Broadway performer and music director, we will explore methods for coaching students on their musical performance, focusing on storytelling, specificity, and personalization.
• Sparking Joy in the Classroom: This large moderated group networking session is designed to connect you with your peers through mutual points of inspiration – and fill your cup creatively, spiritually and physically.  
• Broadway in Concert: Join BTW favorite and legendary Broadway music director/arranger David Loud as he returns with another of his delightful inquiries into the songs of our greatest theatre composers.
• Group Singing: Join the chorus and raise your voice under the baton of one of Broadway’s top conductors, as we explore breathwork, teamwork and collaboration.
• Scenic Design: Embrace Your Space : Let go of your preconceived notions of what the show “should” look like – and open your mind to creative, cost saving and highy theatrical “solution opportunities” in your scenic design concepts and build. This session will explore how to best to outfit your own theatre space.  We will discuss the principles of important scenic conventions and tease out exactly why they are practical and useful. Theatre-specific construction materials, potential alternatives for budget-conscious productions, and growing a stock of essential goods and key reusable elements will all be covered. 
• Lesson Plan Sharing: This moderated session offers you the chance to exchange best practices and curriculum with your peers from around the world.
• Promoting Your Shows: Social Media as a driver of audience engagement, student participation and community enthusiasm.
• Choreography for Non-Dancers: Learn how to take gesture and behavior and transform it into dance.
• Broadway Dance Class/Smash: In this fast-paced session, you’ll learn a combination from one of the Broadway musicals we are seeing, taught by a company member from that show!
• Backstage on Broadway: Meet a panel of Broadway performers, who will share their stories “up close and personal” in this popular session. 
• Morning Stretch and Share: Start the day right with physical stretches, comparing notes on the show you saw the night prior.
• Music Theatre International: Meet the team and preview new shows, new technology and resources to make your productions more successful.
  
  *subject to change

THE Shows:

The Broadway Teachers Workshop in NYC includes your ticket to see FOUR HIT SHOWS, along with post show discussions, where possible.

The Broadway show roster will be announced beginning in November, 2024.

If desired, you may elect to attend the Workshops without show tickets at a discounted rate. See below for details.

**Once registered, if you are looking to buy additional tickets (or sell some of your tickets), you will find a “ticket hub” link in your profile.  

Where

The 2025 Broadway Teachers Workshop will be held at A.R.T. New York Theatre (502 West 53rd Street) featuring brand new high grade ventilation and filtration systems and oceans of space.

TUITION

The 2025 Broadway Teachers Workshop tuition, including all workshops and your ticket to FOUR BROADWAY SHOWS is $899 for early registration (before March 1, 2025) and $949 thereafter. (*If you wish to attend the Workshops without show tickets, the tuition is $625.)

The 2025 One Day Intensive tuition is $275 for anyone registered for BTW weekend. ($325 independently.)

How to Register

Tuition is payable by credit card via an online application.  Registrants also have the option to print and mail an application and pay by check, purchase order or credit card. 

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOURS

Participants in the Broadway Teachers Workshop receive a certificate verifying 30 hours of professional development training.

Graduate Credit

Participants in the Broadway Teachers Workshop may elect to earn 3 graduate credits through the UNLV Theatre department for additional fees. 

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