Start your summer with a transformative experience at the Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive! Designed for intermediate to advanced high school performers (incoming freshmen to recent graduates), this intensive offers:

• Training with Broadway and professional theatre artists.

• Skills development in acting, singing, and dancing.

• Insight into professional musical theatre careers.

Faculty

• Ryan Scott Oliver – Featured Artist and Faculty Leader

• Reagan Kennedy – Supporting Teaching Artist for musical theatre performance/dance

• Jessie Hooker-Bailey - Supporting Teaching Artist for musical theatre performance/voice

• Ann Marie Pollard - Supporting Teaching Artist for acting

Scroll down to read bios and learn more about each faculty member!

1. Submit Application: Complete the application form APPLY HERE NOW and include:

   • Audition Video: A musical theatre song performance (solo, with accompaniment, not from a production).

   • Optional Video: A solo dance piece or monologue (optional).

2. Submission Requirements:

   • Videos must be solo performances.

   • Upload via YouTube link or Google account (make sure you create accessible links)

3. Application Review: Audition and application materials will be reviewed starting Feb 15 and decisions emailed out starting March 1 on a rolling basis until we are at capacity with 50 participants or the application deadline May 26.

4. Payment Deadline: Tuition and housing payments are due one month before the intensive.

Requirements for Participation

• Previous experience in at least two disciplines (acting, singing, dancing).

• Interest in pursuing collegiate or professional musical theatre careers.

• Willingness to engage in fast-paced workshops led by professional artists.

For questions about the application and audition process, please contact Sasha Dobson at sashadobson@unl.edu.

What are the dorm accommodations like?

• Participants will stay in traditional campus dorms in double rooms with another Intensive participant of the same gender.
• Girls and boys will be housed on separate floors, each with access to restrooms and showers that have individual stalls for both.
• Gender-neutral accommodations are available upon request.
   

What do the dorms provide in the rooms?

• The dorm provides a Basic Linen Package:
  • Sheets, pillow, pillowcase, and a basic blanket are included.
  • Beds will not be made upon arrival.
  • You may want to bring your own comforter for extra comfort.
  • Each room has air conditioning.
     

Who supervises participants in the dorms?

• 2-3 college-age counselors will stay on the same floors as participants to supervise and provide support.
   

How will meals and evening activities be organized?

• Students staying in the dorms will walk with counselors to breakfast at a campus dining hall each morning.
• After breakfast, participants will walk together to the Lied Center for their daily activities.
• Dinner will also be at the campus dining hall, followed by informal evening activities led by the counselors.
• All participants are expected to stay together during these activities.
   

Are refunds available if I need to cancel?

• Full tuition is due 1 month before the start of the Intensive.
• If you cancel after the tuition due date:
  • A refund (minus a $50 administration fee) will only be granted if we can fill your slot on short notice.
     

Can participants arrive early or late?

• Early Arrivals:
  • Monday evening arrivals might be able to be accommodated through campus Guest Services. No guarantees. Email Sasha Dobson with questions about this.
  • Additional housing costs will apply for early arrival arrangements.
• Late Arrivals:
  • Late arrivals are not allowed, as the first day includes critical assessments and placement.
     

Is transportation available from the airport to campus?

• Transportation is not provided by Lied Center staff and using Uber or a similar service is recommended. Email Sasha Dobson with questions about this.

Jessie Hooker Bailey is currently in New York City Center’s Wonderful Town playing Helen. Before that she completed the Off-Broadway run as the female standby in The Jonathan Larson Project, where she stepped in for the first few preview performances with minimal rehearsal.

Favorite credits include: Sarah in Stephen Sondheim’s Company (National Tour), Dawn (u/s) in Waitress (Broadway), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Broadway debut), Andy (u/s, performed) in the world premiere of The Devil Wears Prada musical (Chicago), Sarah in Ragtime (Milwaukee Rep), and Rusty in Footloose(PCLO).

Jessie frequently participates in the development of new musicals and works. Beyond performing, she is a passionate musical theater educator and audition coach.

Graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory. Instagram: @jessiehookerbailey

Ann Marie Pollard joined the Performance Area faculty at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in order to serve as Assistant Professor of Voice, Movement, and Acting and as the Voice and Dialect Coach for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in 2018. Prior to her roles at the University of Nebraska, she served as a dialect coach and voice instructor for the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.  Ann Marie also spent three joyful years teaching musical theatre voice and repertoire at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

While in the Chicago area she performed with First Folio Theatre, Aston Rep, Porchlight Musical Theatre, Provision Theatre, and Vox3 Ensemble. She wrote and curated regular “Side by Side Cabaret” performance revues with her dueling piano cabaret partner, Rachel Page.  Ann Marie is a cross-over artist specializing in new works and interdisciplinary productions. Such credits include Peter Fischer’s O d’amarti, o morire, the title role in Astor Piazzola’s tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires for which she also served as director and choreographer, and the premiere of Janice Hamer’s The Lost Childhood with the National Philharmonic. Favorite performances include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Guinevere in Camelot. Favorite directing/choreographing roles include Cosi Fan Tutti, A Christmas Carol, and a one-hour devised documentary theatre performance created with eight acting majors at UNL called "As Free As That."

Ann Marie’s research has taken her into the classrooms of future schoolteachers and lawyers to provide presentation and preventative voice care training and to Singapore to present on perceptions of color and sound within the neurodiverse classroom. 

Ann Marie coaches actors, lawyers, teachers, and business professionals - anyone who uses their voice to be heard, felt, and understood. An advocate of supporting all humans in feeling fully embodied and at home with their voice and gesture, Ann Marie happily offers consultations for presentations and voice care to faculty members at UNL. 

Ann Marie is a Designated Linklater Teacher, a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and holds an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and an MM in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University.  Learn more at annmariepollard.com.