Music Theatre Conservatory

A professional summer training program for music theatre performers.

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"The quality of the instruction is outstanding. These teachers know how to kindle. This is a program that empowers..."

"Every single instructor was knowledgeable, professional, encouraging, and inspiring."

“MTC’s most challenging aspect is its incredibly high standards. The intensity, honesty, and sincere efforts of the instructors to make me the best I can be was so impressive.”
Faculty
The outstanding MTC faculty brings years of performing, directing, and teaching experience to the program. We work as a unified team, coordinating our work in the various disciplines, with the common goal of providing the best possible training and opportunities for discovery to our students. 
Core Instructors
GREG FRITSCH (Shakespeare, Meisner)
Professor of Acting: Notre Dame de Namur University, UC Santa Cruz; Specialist, Meisner Technique

MARC JACOBS (Co-Director, Musical Theatre Audition, Monologues)
American Musical Theatre of San Jose, American Shakespeare Festival, Broadway By the Bay, Guthrie Theatre, New York City Opera, Stratford Festival (Tyrone Guthrie Award), Assistant to Hal Prince on Broadway Roza. SF Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award: Best Director of a Musical.

DEBRA LAMBERT (Co-Director, Voice, Musical Theatre Audition)
Soloist: San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera Center, Cabrillo Music Festival; Instructor: American Conservatory Theatre MFA program; Chair Musical Theater/Opera NDNU; BFA/Music Carnegie-Mellon University.

DOTTIE LESTER-WHITE (Tap)
Broadway: No, No, Nanette, Coco; National Tours: Hello Dolly!, Mame, Cabaret, No, No, Nanette; Choreographer: American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Broadway By the Bay, Woodminster Theatre

WILLIAM LIBERATORE (Voice, Musical Theatre Audition)
Resident Music Director, Theatreworks; Music Director/Conductor American Musical Theatre of San Jose; Dean Goodman Award; SF Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Direction.

LESLIE MARTINSON (Auditions: Interviews, Cold Readings and Monologues)
Associate Artist and Casting Director for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. Watson Fellow, Member of Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, Member of LaMeMe International Directing Symposium, awarded Individual Artist Fellowship in Stage Direction (Arts Council of Silicon Valley) 

KIMBERLEY MOHNE-HILL (Acting)
American Conservatory Theatre; Dialect Coach, TheatreWorks; Lecturer, Santa Clara University; Editor, "Great Monologues in Dialect" and "Great Scenes in Dialect," Smith & Kraus Publishers.

MARIE STINNETT (Jazz/Theatre Dance)
Marie Stinnett Dance Studio, Assistant to Tommy Tune, Seesaw (San Jose). Coach for gold medalist Brian Boitano, '88 Olympics

LEE STRAWN (Voice)
San Francisco Company, Phantom of the Opera, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Diablo Light Opera Company, TheatreWorks, SF Shakespeare Festival, Willows Theatre, Masters/Doctorate degrees, Eastman School of Music

ROBYN TRIBUZI (Jazz/Theatre Dance)
Choreographer: Broadway By the Bay; SF Bay Area Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography, Miss Saigon
Master Classes
KAREN MORROW (Master Class: Getting the Job)
Star of 7 Broadway shows including Tony Award-winning Drood and National Tour of Showboat; Emmy Award; Theatre World Award; 5 Dramalogue Awards.

JAMIE TORCELLINI (Master Class: Improvisation)
Broadway: Billy Elliott, Cats, Man of La Mancha, Me and My Girl; National/International tours: A Chorus Line, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Beauty and the Beast.

WESLA WHITFIELD (Master Class: Song Styling)
Renowned cabaret and recording artist; Soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the White House; “The most assured and affecting jazz-cabaret singer to arrive in New York in many years.....” – New Yorker Magazine

TBA: Seminars with cast members from Broadway's Memphis, Avenue Q, or Phantom of the Opera.
Erie Mills Master Class
Jazz Class
Karen Morrow
MUSICAL ARTS ONSTAGE at NOTRE DAME de NAMUR UNIVERSITY
in collaboration with
HILLBARN THEATRE