The Hartt School/Hartford Stage Partnership in Training
The Partnership in Training offers a unique alliance of an undergraduate acting conservatory program and a respected professional theatre. This partnership helps ensure that acting students at The Hartt School receive rigorous training and bring their skills, imagination and intellect to the demands of a professional theatre setting. Hartford Stage staff and guest artists lead classes and workshops and faculty and students appear in Hartford Stage productions. Hartt students have been seen in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off!, To Kill a Mockingbird, Antony & Cleopatra, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Crucible, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Anastasia, The Comedy of Errors, The Age of Innocence, Henry V and The Flamingo Kid.
Melia Bensussen, as Artistic Advisor to The Hartt School Theatre Department, has had the pleasure of working with the students during the 2020/2021 season. Here are examples of some of the work from this past semester.