What is Studio Tisch?

In short, it is a festival of new work and continuing education initiative of the Graduate Acting Alumni Association (GAAA), generously hosted by NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Each summer, NYU Grad Acting alumni may apply for free use of rehearsal rooms, the Shubert Theater, and other 5th Floor resources to create their own work and explore their own artistry in myriad ways.

If you are an alum, Studio Tisch is your playground, your sandbox. Use it to write because it’s not your apartment. Use it to meet with one collaborator and brainstorm an entirely new project. Use it to take your screenplay from its first draft to its second. Use it to write a new song. Whatever you do, just use it.

Past projects have been wide-ranging: writing workshops, staged readings, clown shows, film festivals, fully-staged performances, improvisational explorations, proofs-of-concept for screenplays and series pilots, “classes” for those developing teaching curriculums, scene study series, theatrical seances, and more.

The Studio Tisch summer season culminates each year with our Alumni Cabaret. Participation is open to all Grad Acting alumni. Material can include anything from musical performances to clowning lazzis to spoken word to magic acts to improv comedy/stand up. The Cabaret is another vivid celebration of our alumni’s diverse talents.

Studio Tisch is also an opportunity for the Grad Acting community to connect across the generations in collaboration, volunteer work, and shared experience of what we are each creating right now. The goal is to plant seeds that will generate increasing opportunity and support for our graduates in the years to come.

Please take a look at the Events page for more information on past and upcoming performances, and consider donating to our ongoing work below.

Thank you for your interest in Studio Tisch. Enjoy the work!

Sincerely, 

Andy Ingalls (class of 2022)
Studio Tisch Director

The Founding Patrons of Studio Tisch

Hovey M. Burgess Jr., David G. Clarke, Nora Dunfee, Zelda Fichandler, J. Michael Miller, Mel Silverman, David Rodgers, and Ronald B. Van Lieu.