Blueprint

Performance Training & College Audition Prep

The Performing Arts Project’s Blueprint program is an audition-only summer intensive that provides exceptional performing arts training and college audition prep to high school and gap year students in order to help you become the artist that only you can be.

AUDITION INFORMATION: click here for details

PROGRAM DATES: July 8th (arrival) - July 21st (departure), 2023

FOR: high school and gap year students

2023 TUITION: in-person - $3700 - includes room & board as well as transportation to and from airport.

SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE: click here for details

ABOUT BLUEPRINT

At Blueprint, you’ll receive technique training from dedicated professionals in the three major performance disciplines: acting, dancing, and singing — plus the art of the college audition — all approached from within a framework of artistic rigor.

Our core group of faculty for all programming is made up of educators and professionals in the Broadway, television, and film industry. Working hard in this environment of unconditional support enables you to create the blueprint to become the artist that only you can be.

WHAT IS A DAY LIKE AT BLUEPRINT?

Blueprint takes place seven days a week from 9am to 9:30pm with an occasional break in schedule as needed. All classes are kept small to ensure individual attention.

In addition to the daily schedule and college audition curriculum below, Blueprint also includes:

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL Q&As

Faculty members host weekly Q&A sessions with other artists, which are announced on the day of the session. Past sessions have included exclusive conversations with:
- Original Mean Girls Broadway cast member Erika Henningsen (Cady) and Tony Winner Adrienne Warren (Tina - The Tina Turner Musical)
- Hamilton Director Tommy Kail and Texas State Acting Department Chair Neil Patrick Stewart
- Tony Winner Celia Keenan-Bolger (To Kill a Mockingbird) and Tony Nominee Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill)

INDIVIDUAL LESSONS

Each student receives one 30-minute individual lesson of their choice in acting, dance, or voice as well as one 30-minute individual college audition coaching

COLLEGE PROGRAM

During Blueprint, representatives from numerous colleges and universities with prestigious performing arts programs join us to speak to interested students. These optional sessions can sometimes include classwork in addition to information about the school. They are a great way to get to know what a school has to offer and their educational style.

In addition, we also hold general information sessions on the college audition process for both students and their parents.

BLUENIFIEDS

Most of our students are familiar with the Unified college auditions held each year in various cities across the U.S. At Blueprint, we help students prepare for the overwhelming blitz of college auditions by holding our own practice version of these, which we call “Bluenifieds.” On a typical Bluenifieds day, which happens at least twice during Blueprint, a student first participates in a dance call, then must zig and zag their way through seven or more mock college auditions, each audition room challenging them in a unique way. Our former students tell us that this process was vital to their success at their actual auditions.

 

WHAT ARE THE ROOM AND BOARD DETAILS?

Blueprint students are housed in air-conditioned dormitories on the campus of Wake Forest University. All students are required to live on campus. Adult chaperones live with students and conduct nightly room checks at curfew. They are also available to help students with their personal needs such as doctor visits. Students are assigned to a room with a roommate in their same age range. Dormitories have common areas as well as coin laundry rooms. Students are asked to bring their own linens, but may purchase a linen package from the dormitory if they so choose.

Students eat on campus in the Student Union at the Fresh Food Company dining hall. They are served three meals a day with food service provided by Aramark Food Service. The dining hall has ample selections and accommodate students with eating limitations including vegetarians, vegans, and those with food allergies to nuts, gluten, and lactose. Students may also choose to eat at some of the other food options on campus, such as the food court; however, these options are not covered in student tuition and require that the student pay the restaurant separately at the time of service.

Wake Forest University has no responsibility for the conduct of any program or activity offered by The Performing Arts Project. Wake Forest functions only as a site for the conference/camp and will provide many of the services specified for the conference/camp such as facilities, food and housing. The University assumes no responsibility for any damage, injury or loss to any person or property, from any cause whatsoever except to the extent such liability results from the sole negligence of Wake Forest University.

COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The Performing Arts Project has a Community Agreement in place, created by faculty member Alejandro Rodriguez, for all administration, faculty, interns, staff, and students. This agreement establishes best practices for the prevention/repairing of any potential harm. The contents are discussed and updated at the beginning of programming to fit the specific needs and input of each company of students. A previous Blueprint Community Agreement can be viewed below.

Blueprint Community Agreement