National Theater Institute: National Music Theater Semester (NMTI)

The National Music Theater Institute (NMTI) is an immersion program for students who want to learn about all aspects of creating music theater. Students of NMTI leave both inspired to and able to participate in the creation of all aspects of a musical. NMTI is unique; there is no other semester-long, undergraduate training program in America that offers this intensive immersion in all aspects of music theater. All NMTI teachers are professional working artists hired to share that experience with the students. Students come to NMTI to delve deeply into the craft of music theater and experience a conservatory-like schedule (7:30am to 10pm, seven days a week, for 14 weeks). In addition to daily classes and workshops, students stage a variety of performances starting with short scenes each week and culminating with an evening-length, work-in-progress production open to the public. The students also have a two-week residency in New York City to see theater and train with professionals in a singular series of NMTI workshops and master classes.