The students received training from professionals in the field and instructors, participating in “master classes” once a week where they would dive into a focal theme within the acting arts, such as acting for film, TV, and physical theatre. “One of the biggest challenges was just keeping up the energy for acting for five straight weeks!” David mentions. The Stella Adler curriculum is a rigorous one: students participate in full days, five days a week, taking courses in voice and speech, movement, improvisation, scene study, Shakespeare, and acting technique. “I completely loved it, and it just made me more sure that this what I want to do.” “I was initially kind of nervous about New York, but almost immediately, I felt like I fit in.” Undeterred and enlightened by his time across the country, David came out even more passionate about his future.
“This was a test for me,” David says, as he reflects on his time in the program. David and his peers in the Teen Summer Conservatory participated in the same curriculum as NYU’s undergraduate students – a curriculum centered in the belief that young actors can be trained with similar discipline as adults. The Studio is an affiliate program of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, serving as one of several acting studios Tisch students attend during their undergraduate studies. With his sights on collegiate drama studies, David applied and was accepted to the Stella Adler Studio earlier this spring. David is a senior at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA), where a portion of his current studies are dedicated to theatre arts. Beginning in July, David was immersed in an intensive acting program alongside 40 other students from across the world. The SMART Scholar spent most of his summer at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting: Teen Summer Conservatory. (Fall 2019) – It was David Zavala’s longest time being away from his home in San Francisco – five weeks nearly 3,000 miles away, in New York City.
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