Our Productions Theatre Co.
Flower Mound-Lewisville-Dallas
YATP Summer Musical Theatre Intensive
May 27 - 31, 2025 (Tuesday - Saturday), Rising 5th - 10th Grades - OPEN enrollment.
Camp fills quickly each year, so early registration is encouraged. Camp is an amazing way for serious young performers to expand and improve their technical skillset in Vocal Technique, Acting and Dance. From the return campers that make YATP the BEST way to kick of every summer, to our NEW students that are welcomed to a safe place to feel accepted and make art, our summer program is both a rigorous and positive week power packs a wallop of real skills with daily master classes from our outstanding, experienced, professional faculty.
Interested in joining our YATP family and becoming one of the selected Young Artists for next year's Conservatory? Audition during our annual Summer Musical Theatre Intensive. Summer students are evaluated through the week for potential admission/invitation to our year round company of young professionals in training.
2024-2025 Community
Musical Theatre Workshops
2025-2026 Coming Soon!
Join us for a Musical Theatre Workshop with our experienced YATP faculty on Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 at 1 p.m. and Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the Lewisville Grand.
Thanks to a grant from the Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, this event is open to youth/teens in 4th-10th grades, with other ages considered on a case-by-case basis. The workshop will cover vocal, acting, and dance techniques for musicals, taught by YATP Master Teachers & Industry Professionals. All skill levels are welcome!
Dress comfortably with closed-toe shoes.
Come explore, create, and grow in a welcoming space for all!
ADVANCE ONLINE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
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Email us at info@ourproductions.org with any questions.
Audition Based Conservatory Company
Under the direction of Stephanie Riggs, Educational Director, YATP is our renowned musical theatre training program. Established in 1993 in Flower Mound, YATP celebrates our 31st year in 2023. We have trained students with careers both stage and screen, that span across both Europe and the United States, from London to Germany, Los Angeles to New York, and right here at home in Big D. Enrollment is by invitation only after annual auditions each May/June during our Summer Intensive.
YATP students make a big impact wherever they go.
The small, conservatory style program admits students by auditions for the year each summer, most of whom train with the program for more than five years or until graduation, when they move on to both professional careers and/or outstanding university programs. Our working professional alumni, credit YATP with giving them the strong foundations for the work they do today. The YATP legacy is strong.
YATP Private Coaching
Join Stephanie Riggs, Artistic & Educational Director, for a one on one coaching session for vocal technique, acting technique, repertoire building, or audition preparation. Pricing and scheduling is available for both regular weekly sessions over the school year and/or drop in one time or cluster lessons. Current YATP Conservatory Students receive priority scheduling and discounted rates. Contact info@ourproductions.org for more information on booking your lesson(s).
Stephanie’s work over her tenure as Artistic Director has been both award winning and critically acclaimed. As a coach with over 30 years of teaching experience, Stephanie’s students have worked in National, Regional, and Local professional productions. She has twice directed a youth choir comprised of her own students for the Dallas Summer Musicals(Broadway Dallas) stop of the National Tour of Joseph...Dreamcoat® and her alumni students have appeared in and/or worked on several Broadway & Off-Broadway productions, along with many National Touring productions, including for the Disney Co., locally at the Tony Award winning Dallas Theater Center, in other area local professional theatre productions, national television series, and in both feature films and commercials. Stephanie offers a rare opportunity to develop both the proper belt/pop placement along with a classical/legit sound in addition to other musical styles simultaneously, while also offering audition prep, monologue coaching, character development and engaging emotional connection to both the text and songs presented. Read more about Stephanie here...
YATP CAPstone - College Audition Prep
Let our faculty team with over seven decades of combined college & professional coaching experience help your student prepare for their college/university or conservatory auditions. The program is included our regular YATP curriculum beginning the junior year of high school and some elements are available individually as add ons for other students in combination with private coaching sessions. Students looking for a professional edge schedule private coaching sessions to prepare their portfolios and then are coached in studio on their prescreen filmed auditions in private or small group sessions. CAPstone faculty offer options for career counseling, repertoire/audition set coordination, resume & headshot review, and pre-screen audition taping & editing sessions. Admission is via interview and prescreen taping sessions are subject to availability.
Previous graduates have been accepted to NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Marymount Manhattan, AMDA, CCM, New York Film Academy, Studio School LA, CAP21, The Juilliard School, OCU, Texas State, Pepperdine, Elon, SMU, TCU, Colorado State University, Millikin University, Baylor, Pace, New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts, University of Oklahoma, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and many other outstanding collegiate programs from coast to coast. (Click here for more information.) Let us help you find the school best suited to meet your future goals.
All Are Welcome Here
Our Productions Theatre Co. and our educational outreach, The Young Artist Training Program, believe our differences make us strong. We strive for a safe, inclusive environment dedicated to promoting the performing arts. We do not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, national origin (ancestry), disability, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status.
We Are Invested in the Future of the Arts
The cost of tuition should not discourage anyone from applying to our program. Limited tuition assistance is available to qualified students. Applications are reviewed confidentiallyby a separate Tuition Assistance Committee. We are a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 IRS recognized charitable organization and depend on donations to carry on our robust tuition assistance.
The Young Artist Training Program (YATP)
Talented youth and young professionals, working together to reach their performing arts goals.
We hope you enjoy the videos of our students and parents. They can best describe the magic of the YATP experience. We encourage all prospective students to experience a YATP live performance event, in particular our spring musical production, or enjoy a taste of the YATP experience in one of our open enrollment events like our Summer Musical Theatre Intensive or our YATP Jr. programming to see the YATP difference.
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