The American Theater Wing is still accepting applications for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative Training Scholarships. The training opportunities, which are aimed at middle and high school students (grades 6-11) cover a range of behind-the-scenes disciplines including stage management, lighting design, arts administration, and playwrighting to name a few, in addition to actors/performers. The deadline is Thursday, March 31st at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
A Training Scholarship can cover the cost of tuition, room and board, and admin fees of a theatre-based summer camp/study or after school training program that students have separately applied to.
As with the ATW University scholarships, they are looking for the following:
- Public school students (grades 6-11) from populations historically underrepresented in the theatre industry who demonstrate exceptional talent and economic need
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- Especially applicants interested in “behind the scenes” disciplines such as stage management, lighting design, playwriting, arts administration, to name a few, in addition to actors/performers.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber initiative provides students at all levels with enhanced theatre education to initiate meaningful relationships with theatre in childhood and open doors for pursuing theatre as children become young adults. By fostering lifelong engagement with theatre through educational avenues, we provide diverse young people across the nation newfound access to industry success.
The initiative is how we rebuild the established path to working in the theatre industry. We reach students across the nation at an early age to make theatre transcend background, creating access to industry opportunities for all who seek them.
The initiative provides classroom grants to create or enhance theatre programs in our nation’s under-resourced schools. Scholarships for afterschool and summer training programs, and tuition support for students pursuing theatre in higher education, provide support on the individual level to students determined to make a career in theatre.
The initiative expands The Wing’s legacy commitment to education and diversity. We expose diverse people and places to theatre, using performing arts education to give every student the opportunity to play a role in the American theatre.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation funds the initiative with an influential $1.3 million-dollar three-year grant. The project is an extension of the work Webber, a multi-Tony Award winning composer-producer, is doing to promote and fund arts education through the foundation in the UK.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative encompasses three components to bring students everywhere theatre education at every level:
- Classroom Resources: Providing grant funding directly to under-resourced public schools to provide instruments, dance floors, lighting grids, and other necessary materials to create new, and enhance existing, in-school theatre programs.
- Training Scholarships: Funding goes towards covering the costs associated with sending select students to afterschool and summer training programs.
- 4-Year University Scholarships: Financial support is provided to select students pursuing theatre studies at the University level.
The applications for 2022 Training Scholarships are now open! Apply by Thursday, March 31.
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