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Your child can reach their full potential at PTW. Our expert faculty will engage your child as an individual and a lifelong learner, instructing them with elite knowledge, care, and passion for the performing arts.
PTW Teachers Have Performed in Broadway Shows Such As:
The IT Factor
Performers Theatre Workshop’s students past and present have appeared on Broadway, in Film, and on Television. They go on to attend elite performing arts conservatories and leading academic colleges and universities. PTW’s rigorous training and encouraging environment give students a transformational edge they credit as “the PTW difference.”
Fostering a culturally rich environment allows PTW to attract top instructors, who are not only highly skilled educators but also successful and active performers in their fields. With a talented pool of professional faculty, PTW’s classical training and curriculum focuses on all areas of the performing arts, including acting and drama for theatre and TV, voice, tap, jazz, show production, guitar, piano, bass, and songwriting.
PTW is a place for supporting both professional aspirations and personal growth. Browse the professional programming AND community & school productions where our students have landed leading roles and truly flourished in recent years:
PTW Students - Professional & Collegiate Successes
BROADWAY
Aladdin
An American in Paris (Tony Nominee-Brandon Uranowitz)
A Christmas Carol at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden
Baby It‘s You
Broadway Kids Sing Broadway
Fame
Grease
Gypsy
Into The Woods
The Lion King
Mamma Mia!
Once on This Island
Peter Pan
TV Commercials
Blingtones
CVS
FedEx
Hatfield’s Hotdogs and Sausages
Kenmore Refrigerators
KFC
Life Cereal
MCI
MTV
Nickelodeon
Parker Brothers
Sears
Spaghettios
Wisk
NATIONAL TOURS
Anything Goes
Evita
Les Misérables
Matilda
Ragtime (Toronto run)
Rent
FILM
Get Smart
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Murder By Numbers
The Paper starring Michael Keaton and Glenn Close
The Dreamers
Sleepers
PRINT WORK
Better Homes and Gardens
Family Circle
Newsweek (cover story)
Parents Magazine
COLLEGES
Berklee College of Music
Boston Conservatory
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
The Juilliard School
MIT
NYU
NYU Meissner Program
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Princeton University
Syracuse University
University of Pennsylvania
University of the Arts
Wellesley College
Westminster Choir College
Yale University
TV
All My Children
American Idol
Another World
The Baby-Sitters Club
Barney & Friends
BET
Boardwalk Empire
CBS’s MarketWatch
CBS News Anchor/Reporter
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Conan
The Cosby Show
The Late Show with David Letterman
Dawson’s Creek
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids: The TV Show
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: SVU
WCBS-NY Broadcast Reporter
NYPD Blue
Disney’s Out of the Box
Saturday Night Live
Sesame Street
Shining Time Station
Third Watch
Dance Companies
Alvin Alley
MISC
Amahl and the Night Visitors with the Hershey Symphony
Miss New Jersey Petite Princess 2003 at Walt Disney World
TV Producer
Top Child Casting Agent
CBS & WPIX News Anchor
Casting Director
Scholastic Productions Producer
Tony-Nominated Broadway Show Writer
PTW Students - Community & School Show Successes
Whether a student’s aspirations are to appear on Broadway, star in their school musical, or just feel better about themselves and have fun learning new skills, we foster their self-confidence while refining their performing technique, guide them to experience personal and performing breakthroughs, and help them set & achieve their unique goals.
Annie: Annie
Pippin: Pippin
Oklahoma!: Curly
Cabaret: Sally Bowles
Fiddler On The Roof: Tevye, Tzeitel
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory: Charlie
Guys & Dolls: Alelaide, Sarah, Sky Masterson
Bye, Bye, Birdie: Kim
Into The Woods: The Witch, Jack, The Prince
Into The Woods: The Two Stepsisters
The Wiz: The Tin Man
The Wizard of Oz: Glinda
Anything Goes: Billy, Hope
Once Upon A Mattress: The Princess
High School Musical: Sharpay
PTW Faculty
BROADWAY
A Chorus Line
A Class Act
Cabaret
Cinderella
Damn Yankees
Flower Drum Song
Grease
Gypsy
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Into The Woods
Mary Poppins
The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino
Smokey Joe’s Cafe
The Three Penny Opera
Titanic
TV COMMERCIALS
Febreze
Geico
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL TOURS
Anything Goes
Cats
Oklahoma!
Rent
West Side Story
FILM
Annie
Crutch
Hello Lonesome
New Year’s Day
Spider-Man
Welcome to the Bates Motel
The Wolf of Wall Street
COLLEGES
Berklee College of Music
Boston Conservatory
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
The Juilliard School
MIT
NYU
NYU Meissner Program
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
Princeton University
Syracuse University
University of Pennsylvania
University of the Arts
Wellesley College
Westminster Choir College
Yale University
TV
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Conviction
Gossip Girl
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids: The TV Show
Hope & Faith
Jake and the Fatman
Knots Landing
Law & Order: SVU
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Murphy Brown
One Life To Live
Picket Fences
Saturday Night Live
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
The Colbert Report
The Good Wife
DANCE COMPANIES
Houston Ballet
Moscow Ballet
VENUES
Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center
Carnegie Hall
New York City Center
Walt Disney World
The Kennedy Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
The Fox in Detroit and Atlanta
The Pantages
The Shrine
PTW STUDENT JOHN ALLYN STARS AS “MICHAEL” IN NBC’S PETER PAN LIVE
PTW student John Allyn’s feet may never touch the ground! Fresh of the floats at The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade where he performed with the cast of Peter Pan Live, our PTW performer stars as Michael in the new NBC production, broadcast live on Dec. 4, 2017. John also appears in The Making of Peter Pan Live, which aired Nov. 26, showing the whole cast’s journey from auditioning to mounting the production. The broadcast depicts a poignant moment when John learns he’s been cast. After he delivers his callback audition, star Allison Williams asks, “Does the idea of flying…does that sound fun to you?” She continues, “Does the idea of learning how to fly with me sound like fun?” What a way to learn he had just landed the role of a lifetime!
The PTW Difference: John Allyn learned about PTW through an after school enrichment class at Deerfield Elementary in Millburn, led by longtime PTW instructor and Broadway veteran, the late Cathy Trien (Broadway: Gypsy [u/s Bernadette Peters], Grease; TV: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show). He soon began private voice lessons in spring 2014 and enrolled in the 2014 Summer Theater Conservatory Broadway Showcase. John’s current PTW training includes Jazz and Hip Hop classes with Jordan Fife Hunt (Broadway National Tours: A Chorus Line, On the Town). He has also studied with Beth Southard (Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera), and PTW veteran instructor, renowned choreographer and Broadway performer Brian Loeffler. John’s training in TV Acting and Comedy Improv classes helped prepare him for the Peter Pan Live audition process. In addition to the support they provided through each of his PTW classes, John’s PTW instructors rallied around him throughout the audition process, offering expert coaching and encouragement to ease his nerves and ensure his success.
The PTW Fit: Seven-year-old John really found a “theatre home” at PTW, where faculty, staff and fellow students welcomed him into the world of expert training that centers the student, not the schedule. Since PTW divides class sections into levels of training rather than merely age groups, John continued to feel challenged. In past experiences with other performing arts schools, he attended classes with students his own age, but not at his level of training. He felt like a fish out of water. But here at PTW, John continues to study and flourish. This February, he will perform alongside his fellow students for the PTW’s Mid-Winter Showcase at Don’t Tell Mama in Midtown Manhattan.
PTW Pride: The entire PTW family, faculty, staff & students, congratulate John! We will all be watching on Thursday, Dec. 4 as he flies into Never Never Land. We’re so excited, our feet may never touch the ground, either!
We would love to welcome your child into the PTW theatre family and help them on their own creative journey.
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