Summer Musical Theatre Intensive: Acting Through Song
About the Intensive
This musical theatre intensive is built for performers ages 16-21 who want to stop just rehearsing and are ready to start optimizing their training. Over two focused days in Windsor, you'll work on your audition repertoire with a team of working professionals: Sara Fontaine on voice and vocal performance, Sam Bourque on stylistic versatility and musicality, Jeremy Ryan Mossman on body-based voice and performance through the song, and Jennifer Budinsky on acting and artist marketing.
You will also work with a professional accompanist and run a full mock audition. You will leave with a polished repertoire piece, personalized written feedback from your coaching team, and tools you'll use on every future audition or performance.
This isn't a camp. It's training for serious performers in the Windsor-Essex County region.
What You Leave With After Two Days
- A piece of audition repertoire that is polished and pressure-tested with four industry coaches and a professional accompanist.
- A complete mock audition experience, with real-time feedback that you can apply immediately.
- A performance framework as a permanent tool for every future audition and/or performance.
- A personalized written feedback document from your coaching team, including specific next-step homework.
- Concrete vocal and physical techniques for sustaining yourself through a full audition day.
- Tools that transform how you act through a song.
- Direct relationships with four working theatre professionals who have seen your work.
Prior to the intensive, participants will be required to submit the repertoire that they would like to work on. Recommendations can be provided by request.
Pricing
A single hour of private coaching from a working industry professional runs $100-150. Over two days, you receive ten hours of coaching from four professionals plus a professional accompanist, individualized written feedback, and a mock audition experience.
The cost for the intensive is $250 per person, or $225 if you register by May 22 (Early Bird).
Payment: Once you have received confirmation of your registration, you must submit 50% of the cost within 48 hours of confirmation, or your seat will be given to the next participant. The remaining 50% is due on Monday, June 15.
Note: If fewer than 10 people are registered by June 14, the program will not run. If the program does not run, the 50% deposit will be returned in full.
Questions? Email: broadwaybunch.windsor@gmail.com
Meet Your Instructors
Sara Fontaine
Contemporary and Musical Theatre Voice Specialist
Sara Fontaine is a vocal coach and educator with a focus on musical theatre and developing voices. Holding a Bachelor of Music in Voice, she draws on a broad performance background across stage, concert, and recording work, including collaborations with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. She is voice faculty in the Musical Theatre program at St. Clair College. Sara also owns and operates Fontaine Music Studio and The Fearless Voice, and is founder and co-producer of The Broadway Bunch. Sara applies contemporary vocal pedagogy and performance-based learning to train singers with the technique, versatility, and confidence required for today's industry.
Sam Bourque
Stylistic Versatility & Musicianship
Sam Bourque is a Windsor-based musician and music educator with a deep love for connecting with her community through music. She has performed around the world, from New York City to Edinburgh to Cancun and beyond. After spending eight years in the Toronto area pursuing professional theatre and earning a degree in Music Theatre Performance from Sheridan College, Sam brought her passion and experience back to Windsor.
Whether she's singing and playing (many, many) instruments with her band Saints Down, performing in a duo act with locally treasured musician Max Marshall, music directing/performing with local theatre companies (primarily Kordazone, WECAP, and Broadway Bunch) or performing her solo act, Sam can usually be found making music somewhere in Windsor on any given day.
In addition to performing, Sam runs a private voice studio out of her home and teaches piano, voice, and early childhood music classes at Sonata Piano Studio. She is a proud member of the "Sonata Music Adventures" childhood music education YouTube channel, which has over 500,000 subscribers.
Jennifer Budinsky
Acting Coaching & Artist Marketing
Jennifer Budinsky is a working actor, producer, and creative consultant, and the founder of Budding Sky Studios. Her acting training includes LB Acting Studio (Toronto) under Lewis Baumander, Georgina Reilly, Michelle Arvizu, and Nahanni Johnstone, Armstrong Acting under Stewart Arnott, and the University of Windsor under Dragana Varagic and Brian Taylor. She is a People's Choice Award winner at the Fringe Windsor Festival, a two-time runner-up at the Toronto Monologue Slam, and a BroadwayWorld Toronto Award winner for Best Independent Production for Nine. Through Budding Sky Studios, Jennifer coaches performers on audition strategy, self-tapes, and performance preparation.
Jeremy Ryan Mossman
Voice Pedagogy & Body-Based Voice
Jeremy Ryan Mossman is a teacher of voice, movement, and wholistic expression. Jeremy has recently moved on from academic teaching after 15+ years in order to focus on teaching in more creative and integrative ways while sharing his passion for wholly embodied singing. Jeremy has a unique way of reconciling long-held beliefs with new understandings about the body and singing, which he teaches to performers on Broadway, on their way to Broadway, and to teachers around the world. You can learn more about him at www.bodybasedvoice.com