What's the scoop with new mt program at nyu?

soozievt
Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:33:24 +0000

Anne,

CAP21, along with all external studios at Tisch, have their OWN FACILITIES which are not owned by NYU or on NYU’s campus. Tisch has some internal studios such as Experimental Theater Wing which are owned by NYU and use NYU facilities (my D just finished at ETW and her studio was right inside the Tisch building!).

From the very little information that has been released to current students, NYU/Tisch has located new building space and is in the midst of creating the New Studio on Broadway at this new facility. It will be owned by NYU/Tisch and not be an external studio off campus as are most of the Tisch studios. So, yes, it will be a brand new facility. As far as the size, I have no information. I don’t think we can say it is equivalent in size to CAP and Strasberg combined. Simply, those two studios are being phased out and a new studio is being created. How the numbers play out, I can’t say. But one thing I CAN say is that in Tisch studios, class size is small…not over 15. The size of the program doesn’t affect class size. I am sure the new studio will be in keeping with the same standard in place now for all of Tisch’s studios. Tisch is a big school but I can tell you that my kid had a lot of individual attention and the faculty in her studios knew her very well. One neat thing is that she got to learn and train with a variety of people over her four years and not just a handful as is the case in a small BFA program. One can examine the size of a BFA program but it is important to look at class size and in that respect, the class size at Tisch in all of their studios is like at most BFA programs. They simply have more classes.

One more thing when it comes to facilities…I have heard that they will be improving performance spaces for MT and other Tisch productions and in that regard, this is an improvement over the production space at CAP21.