The training at Playwrights Horizons Theater School is dedicated to the development of the theater artists of the future. Based primarily on principles of Stanislavsky, the school aims to help students develop their own work and understandthe collaborative process. Students learn to trust their own instincts and to express themselves clearly. The faculty of the school is composed of professional theater artists who come from varied backgrounds and disciplines and meld their long-term collaboration in the classroom, teaching a unified curriculum based on shared aesthetic goals and mutual respect.
The students attend classes for a minimum of 16 hours of in-class time, three days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Rehearsal and study time out of class require an additional 8 hours of each student per week.
The curriculum of Playwrights Horizons Theater School is viewed as an organic entity which has been, and will continue to be, refined and developed as the school and faculty grow. The school offers rigorous, Stanislavsky-based theater training together with innovative thinking. Students take classes in acting, directing, music performance, design, dramaturgy, playwriting, voice, speech, and movement. The four year curriculum channels the students' skills to ever more challenging material. With each succeeding semester, as the skills taught become more sophisticated, the program becomes more attuned to the needs of the individual student.
