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LIED CENTER TRIPLE THREAT BROADWAY INTENSIVE
Dates: Tuesday, June 17 - Sunday, June 22, 2025
Location: Lied Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE
Contact: Sasha Dobson, Lied Center Education Outreach Manager
Email: sashadobson@unl.edu
Overview
Start your summer with a transformative experience at the Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive! Designed for intermediate to advanced high school performers (incoming freshmen to recent graduates), this intensive offers:
Training with Broadway and professional theatre artists.
Skills development in acting, singing, and dancing.
Insight into professional musical theatre careers.
Ryan Scott Oliver – Featured Artist and Faculty Leader
Reynel Reynaldo – Supporting Teaching Artist for musical theatre performance/dance
Mary Kate Moore - Supporting Teaching Artist for musical theatre performance/voice
Ann Marie Pollard - Supporting Teaching Artist for acting
Scroll down to read bios and learn more about each faculty member!
Tuition & Housing
Tuition: $400 (includes all processing fees).
Optional Housing: Additional $250 for on-campus UNL housing (includes all meals).
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available and can cover up to 100% of tuition and housing costs. Priority for housing scholarships is given to students living outside Lincoln.
The Application & Audition Process
Submit Application: Complete the application form APPLY HERE NOW and include:
Audition Video: A musical theatre song performance (solo, with accompaniment, not from a production).
Optional Video: A solo dance piece or monologue (optional).
Submission Requirements:
Videos must be solo performances.
Upload via YouTube link or Google account (make sure you create accessible links)
Application Review: Audition and application materials will be reviewed starting Feb 15 and decisions emailed out starting March 1 on a rolling basis until we are at capacity with 50 participants or the application deadline May 26.
Payment Deadline: Tuition and housing payments are due one month before the intensive.
Requirements for Participation
Previous experience in at least two disciplines (acting, singing, dancing).
Interest in pursuing collegiate or professional musical theatre careers.
Willingness to engage in fast-paced workshops led by professional artists.
For questions about the application and audition process, please contact Sasha Dobson at sashadobson@unl.edu.
Structure & Schedule
Enrollment Cap: 50 students.
Daily Schedule: Classes run from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM with breaks included.
Group Organization: Students are placed in small groups after assessments on the first day.
Final Showcase: There will be a final showcase on the last day, Sunday, June 22 at 7pm on the Lied Center mainstage. The showcase is comprised of ensemble and solo performances selected by the faculty and is FREE for family and friends to attend!
TIME ACTIVITY GROUP TYPE
8:00-8:15AM Check in
8:15-8:30AM Morning updates/Warm ups Everyone
8:30-10:00AM Info session: Song Interpretation Everyone
10:00-10:40AM Final showcase music rehearsal Small groups
10:40-10:50AM BREAK
10:50-12:10PM Workshops (acting, dance, voice) Small groups
12:10-1:00PM LUNCH (provided)
1:00-2:20PM Workshops (acting, dance, voice) Small groups
2:20-2:30PM BREAK
2:30-3:50PM Workshops (acting, dance, voice) Small groups
3:50-4:00PM BREAK
4:00-6:00PM Final showcase rehearsal Everyone
Musical Theatre Fundamentals: Core training in acting, vocal, and dance techniques.
Audition Techniques: Insights into auditioning for college/conservatory programs and professional theatre.
Performance Practice: Group work on assigned material for the final presentation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ryan Scott Oliver
Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive Featured Artist and Faculty Leader
RYAN SCOTT OLIVER is a Lortel Award-nominated and Kleban Prize, Rodgers, and Larson Award-winning composer and lyricist. He was called “the future of Broadway… a major new voice in musical theatre” (Entertainment Weekly) and is “shaking up musical theater with his dark, twisted and genius work … [Oliver] could very well be musical theater’s answer to an auteur filmmaker or a gothic novelist” (Huffington Post). He wrote the music and lyrics for Jasper in Deadland; 35mm: A Musical Exhibition; Hugo; Darling; Mrs. Sharp; We Foxes and more. He is also the winner of New Musicals Awards from Weston Playhouse, Pace University, the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies and ASCAP awards, and commissions from Disney Theatricals, Universal Theatricals, Broadway Across America, and more.
Select upcoming: Party of the Century (commissioned by Fourth Wall Theatricals), Tomorrow, the Island Dies (commission), and Shirley Jackson’s Demons, a theatre piece adapting short stories of acclaimed American Gothic writer Shirley Jackson. Find writings, videos, tweets, and more of his morbidly optimistic musings @ryanscottoliver on all platforms.
As an educator, he co-founded Actor Therapy with Lindsay Mendez in 2012 and teaches audition techniques and business classes. He was previously an adjunct professor at Pace University and ran the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program.
Reynel Reynaldo
Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive Instructor
Reynel Reynaldo (Rey) is thrilled to be sharing his knowledge with The Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive. National Tours: The Book of Mormon, On Your Feet! Regional: In The Heights, Head Over Heels, Shrek The Musical, Mamma Mia, Matilda. Dance Credits: SuperBowl XLIV, FloRida, Queen Latifah, Miami Heat, Miami Dolphins. Reynel can’t wait to see what’s in store this summer!
Mary Kate Moore
Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive Instructor
Mary Kate Moore is a native Nebraskan, theater actor and classically trained singer based in New York City. She was recently seen on Broadway and in New York City Center’s revival of Into the Woods, understudying Sara Bareilles and Stephanie J. Block as the Baker’s Wife. She has also starred in the First National Tour of MJ: The Musical as Rachel and in the North American tours of Les Miserables as Fantine, for which she received a BroadwayWorld LA Award: Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Fiasco Theater’s Into The Woods. Regional theater credits include Little Shop of Horrors (TUTS), Songs For a New World (The Gateway Playhouse), Spring Awakening and The Rocky Horror Show (Lyric Theater of Oklahoma). TV: The Other Two (2021). IG: @mkathrynmoore.
Ann Marie Pollard
Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive Instructor
Ann Marie Pollard joined the Performance Area faculty at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in order to serve as Assistant Professor of Voice, Movement, and Acting and as the Voice and Dialect Coach for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in 2018. Prior to her roles at the University of Nebraska, she served as a dialect coach and voice instructor for the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Ann Marie also spent three joyful years teaching musical theatre voice and repertoire at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
While in the Chicago area she performed with First Folio Theatre, Aston Rep, Porchlight Musical Theatre, Provision Theatre, and Vox3 Ensemble. She wrote and curated regular “Side by Side Cabaret” performance revues with her dueling piano cabaret partner, Rachel Page. Ann Marie is a cross-over artist specializing in new works and interdisciplinary productions. Such credits include Peter Fischer’s O d’amarti, o morire, the title role in Astor Piazzola’s tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires for which she also served as director and choreographer, and the premiere of Janice Hamer’s The Lost Childhood with the National Philharmonic. Favorite performances include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Guinevere in Camelot. Favorite directing/choreographing roles include Cosi Fan Tutti, A Christmas Carol, and a one-hour devised documentary theatre performance created with eight acting majors at UNL called "As Free As That."
Ann Marie’s research has taken her into the classrooms of future schoolteachers and lawyers to provide presentation and preventative voice care training and to Singapore to present on perceptions of color and sound within the neurodiverse classroom.
Ann Marie coaches actors, lawyers, teachers, and business professionals - anyone who uses their voice to be heard, felt, and understood. An advocate of supporting all humans in feeling fully embodied and at home with their voice and gesture, Ann Marie happily offers consultations for presentations and voice care to faculty members at UNL.
Ann Marie is a Designated Linklater Teacher, a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and holds an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and an MM in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University. Learn more at annmariepollard.com.
Kaleb Wilkening
Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive Accompanist
Kaleb is a music teacher and collaborator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied with Dr. Paul Barnes. Kaleb studied Organ with Dr. Christopher Marks and Brent Shaw. While studying at UNL he attended the Vienna International Piano Academy and has performed in masterclasses with artists such as Joyce Yang, Sean Chen, and Eva Polgar. Kaleb was recently a teaching artist with the Lied Center Piano Academy and has led music theory classes with Lied Center Community Learning.
Kaleb is a frequent collaborator and music director with multiple performing arts organizations in the Lincoln and Omaha area. Recent credits include: The Prom (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2024), Cabaret (Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2024), Pippin (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2023), Catch Me If You Can (Pinewood Performing Arts, 2023), Ordinary Days (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Theatrix, 2023), and Into The Woods (Lincoln Public Schools, 2023). Kaleb is the collaborative pianist for the Lied Center Performing Arts Triple Threat Intensive where he accompanies 40+ high school students in masterclasses led by leading professionals such as Special Tony Award Winner Jason Michael Webb, Q Smith, Alicia Olatuja, and Katie Pohlman.
Kaleb grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota where he studied Viola in the Black Hills Suzuki School with Carol Knowles. While in Rapid City, he played viola with the Black Hills Symphony Orchestra, accompanied local choirs, and played piano with Black Hills Community Theater (BHCT) and Advocates for Creative Theater Students (ACTS). His previous piano teachers include Anne Foster, Jim MacInnes, Symeon Wasseen, and Paul Barnes.
Kaleb currently serves as the Assistant Music Director at Saint Paul First United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska and runs his own music studio where he teaches piano and music theory. With over 10 years as a collaborator, he has experience with solo voice, instrumental, chamber music, choir, and musical theater.
In his free time Kaleb enjoys hiking, reading, and taking care of his two cats Koda and Suki.
RYAN SCOTT OLIVER is a Lortel Award-nominated and Kleban Prize, Rodgers, and Larson Award-winning composer and lyricist. He was called “the future of Broadway… a major new voice in musical theatre” (Entertainment Weekly) and is “shaking up musical theater with his dark, twisted and genius work … [Oliver] could very well be musical theater’s answer to an auteur filmmaker or a gothic novelist” (Huffington Post). He wrote the music and lyrics for Jasper in Deadland; 35mm: A Musical Exhibition; Hugo; Darling; Mrs. Sharp; We Foxes and more. He is also the winner of New Musicals Awards from Weston Playhouse, Pace University, the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies and ASCAP awards, and commissions from Disney Theatricals, Universal Theatricals, Broadway Across America, and more.
Select upcoming: Party of the Century (commissioned by Fourth Wall Theatricals), Tomorrow, the Island Dies (commission), and Shirley Jackson’s Demons, a theatre piece adapting short stories of acclaimed American Gothic writer Shirley Jackson. Find writings, videos, tweets, and more of his morbidly optimistic musings @ryanscottoliver on all platforms.
As an educator, he co-founded Actor Therapy with Lindsay Mendez in 2012 and teaches audition techniques and business classes. He was previously an adjunct professor at Pace University and ran the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program.
Reynel Reynaldo (Rey) is thrilled to be sharing his knowledge with The Lied Center Triple Threat Broadway Intensive. National Tours: The Book of Mormon, On Your Feet! Regional: In The Heights, Head Over Heels, Shrek The Musical, Mamma Mia, Matilda. Dance Credits: SuperBowl XLIV, FloRida, Queen Latifah, Miami Heat, Miami Dolphins. Reynel can’t wait to see what’s in store this summer!
Kaleb is a music teacher and collaborator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he studied with Dr. Paul Barnes. Kaleb studied Organ with Dr. Christopher Marks and Brent Shaw. While studying at UNL he attended the Vienna International Piano Academy and has performed in masterclasses with artists such as Joyce Yang, Sean Chen, and Eva Polgar. Kaleb was recently a teaching artist with the Lied Center Piano Academy and has led music theory classes with Lied Center Community Learning.
Kaleb is a frequent collaborator and music director with multiple performing arts organizations in the Lincoln and Omaha area. Recent credits include: The Prom (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2024), Cabaret (Lincoln Community Playhouse, 2024), Pippin (Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2023), Catch Me If You Can (Pinewood Performing Arts, 2023), Ordinary Days (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Theatrix, 2023), and Into The Woods (Lincoln Public Schools, 2023). Kaleb is the collaborative pianist for the Lied Center Performing Arts Triple Threat Intensive where he accompanies 40+ high school students in masterclasses led by leading professionals such as Special Tony Award Winner Jason Michael Webb, Q Smith, Alicia Olatuja, and Katie Pohlman.
Kaleb grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota where he studied Viola in the Black Hills Suzuki School with Carol Knowles. While in Rapid City, he played viola with the Black Hills Symphony Orchestra, accompanied local choirs, and played piano with Black Hills Community Theater (BHCT) and Advocates for Creative Theater Students (ACTS). His previous piano teachers include Anne Foster, Jim MacInnes, Symeon Wasseen, and Paul Barnes.
Kaleb currently serves as the Assistant Music Director at Saint Paul First United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska and runs his own music studio where he teaches piano and music theory. With over 10 years as a collaborator, he has experience with solo voice, instrumental, chamber music, choir, and musical theater.
In his free time Kaleb enjoys hiking, reading, and taking care of his two cats Koda and Suki.
Mary Kate Moore is a native Nebraskan, theater actor and classically trained singer based in New York City. She was recently seen on Broadway and in New York City Center’s revival of Into the Woods, understudying Sara Bareilles and Stephanie J. Block as the Baker’s Wife. She has also starred in the First National Tour of MJ: The Musical as Rachel and in the North American tours of Les Miserables as Fantine, for which she received a BroadwayWorld LA Award: Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Fiasco Theater’s Into The Woods. Regional theater credits include Little Shop of Horrors (TUTS), Songs For a New World (The Gateway Playhouse), Spring Awakening and The Rocky Horror Show (Lyric Theater of Oklahoma). TV: The Other Two (2021). IG: @mkathrynmoore.
Ann Marie Pollard joined the Performance Area faculty at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in order to serve as Assistant Professor of Voice, Movement, and Acting and as the Voice and Dialect Coach for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre in 2018. Prior to her roles at the University of Nebraska, she served as a dialect coach and voice instructor for the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Ann Marie also spent three joyful years teaching musical theatre voice and repertoire at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
While in the Chicago area she performed with First Folio Theatre, Aston Rep, Porchlight Musical Theatre, Provision Theatre, and Vox3 Ensemble. She wrote and curated regular “Side by Side Cabaret” performance revues with her dueling piano cabaret partner, Rachel Page. Ann Marie is a cross-over artist specializing in new works and interdisciplinary productions. Such credits include Peter Fischer’s O d’amarti, o morire, the title role in Astor Piazzola’s tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires for which she also served as director and choreographer, and the premiere of Janice Hamer’s The Lost Childhood with the National Philharmonic. Favorite performances include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Guinevere in Camelot. Favorite directing/choreographing roles include Cosi Fan Tutti, A Christmas Carol, and a one-hour devised documentary theatre performance created with eight acting majors at UNL called "As Free As That."
Ann Marie’s research has taken her into the classrooms of future schoolteachers and lawyers to provide presentation and preventative voice care training and to Singapore to present on perceptions of color and sound within the neurodiverse classroom.
Ann Marie coaches actors, lawyers, teachers, and business professionals - anyone who uses their voice to be heard, felt, and understood. An advocate of supporting all humans in feeling fully embodied and at home with their voice and gesture, Ann Marie happily offers consultations for presentations and voice care to faculty members at UNL.
Ann Marie is a Designated Linklater Teacher, a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and holds an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and an MM in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University. Learn more at annmariepollard.com.
Robbie Exstrom (he/him) is one of the trailblazing students of the Johnny Carson School of Theater and Film’s BFA in Acting program hailing from Kearney, NE. He is also the first camper of the Broadway Triple Threat Intensive to become a counselor, and is so excited to be back to help other campers thrive! He has been a part of some wonderful productions recently including Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play (Gibson) at Nebraska Repertory Theater, Shrek the Musical (Pig #3, Ensemble) at Crane River Theater, and Puddin’ and the Grumble (Mickey) with BLIXT ARTS LAB. Robbie has a deep love for this intensive and cannot wait to spread his knowledge to the incredibly talented campers!
Lauren Roberts is a current student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is studying Vocal Music Education with a minor in Musical Theatre, and plans to become a vocal music educator. She has been an assistant director for the Platteview High School musical program for two years, as well as an active member of the Pi chapter of Kappa Delta sorority. Lauren loves all things theatre, books, movies, and sushi. She is passionate about providing students with the opportunity to perform, and cannot wait to continue her passion!
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