What to focus on summer before Senior year? (Shows vs summer program)

MTVT2015
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:54:21 +0000

I had no leads on my resume either! That’s partially a type thing (being Tracy Turnblad in a state too homogenous for Hairspray), and partially because I just didn’t make shows a priority. In fact, my last show was January of junior year and now I’m a second semester senior! I would have done more but instead I had a job and took dance classes and workshops and did a summer intensive and it was the right decision for me—plus, there aren’t a lot of opportunities in my area and I didn’t learn a ton from my high school shows. I honestly might do even fewer shows if I could redo high school. The most important thing is learning and I probably got something out of like half the shows on my resume. I would say definitely get coaching and do the 2 week summer intensive. I did a 7 week summer intensive that was not focused on college prep, and it completely ate my summer and made prescreens/material finding/early applications a serious time crunch. A coach definitely would have helped take some of the pressure off because I had no idea what I was doing!