OVERVIEW

Summer@Cornish is a 4-week intensive program from July 7 – August 1, 2025, offering high school students a mini-college experience at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle’s South Lake Union. Students create and showcase new work, with opportunities to take electives outside their primary artform, preparing them for future arts careers.

Musicals & Theater Program

Full-Day
This program explores all aspects of theater production. Mornings focus on writing, singing, and acting in original musicals, while afternoons offer electives in costume design, stage combat, dance, music, theater, or film. Fridays are dedicated to audition techniques and college application prep. At the end of the program, students perform a short musical, along with monologues and solos, for family and friends.

View the full-day schedule on the right.

Residential options are available for full-day students. Learn more here.

Part-Time
Part-time students can combine morning intensives and electives or attend just electives. The residential option is not available for part-time students.

Tuition

Electives start at $730, and the Morning Intensive is $3160. Register by March 1 for a 10% discount. Need-based scholarships are available [here].

Next Steps: Get in Touch!

Join our webinar with Michael Callaizakis and select faculty on November 14 at 4PM by signing up here. For immediate questions, email plus@cornish.edu.