Final Exam Scene Presentations 2026
(Guests are welcome. Please see schedule below.)
NYU Steinhardt – Acting for Singers
Monday, May 4
Graduate Section 2 – 3:15 PM
Graduate Section 3 – 5:20 PM
Tuesday, May 5
Undergraduate Section 1 – 12:30 PM
Undergraduate Section 2 – 2:45 PM
Location:
Graduate Section 2:
Pless Building – Room C10
Graduate Section 3 & Undergraduate Sections 1 and 2:
Black Box Theatre (Room 103)
82 Washington Square East
New York, NY 10003
Running Time: Approximately 45 minutes, followed by a possible talkback
RSVP:
If you know a student, please RSVP directly to them.
Otherwise: leesummers@nyu.edu
Attendance is limited.
Lee Summers Educator
NYU Bio Link:
NYU Steinhardt | Music Adjunct Faculty
Music and Performing Arts Professions
(2020 – Present)
Lee Summers is an adjunct professor at NYU Steinhardt, where he teaches Acting for Singers at the undergraduate and graduate levels, working with classical, musical theatre, and contemporary vocalists. His teaching bridges professional rehearsal practice with actor training rooted in the Meisner and Uta Hagen techniques, emphasizing truthful behavior, active listening, emotional availability, and dramatic specificity.
He has also taught Music Scene Study and draws on his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch to guide students in script and scene analysis, helping performers build clear, playable actions and fully realized interpretations of text.
Drawing on decades of professional experience on Broadway, television, and regional theatre, Summers encourages performers to move beyond presentation and into fully lived dramatic action.
His core philosophy is simple:
Great singing actors are not singers who act—they are actors who sing.