Award-Winning Broadway Actor
Denise Summerford
Founder & Director
Learn, Train and Grow with Broadway Pros! Broadway Arts Collective is committed to connecting students of the performing arts to industry professionals - right here in the Hudson Valley. BAC gives kids the mentoring and tools they need to SHINE!
The future of Broadway starts here!
Recipient of the Ulster County Executive’s Arts Award for Arts in Education
SING IT FORWARD!
A BROADWAY BENEFIT CONCERT for the
FAMILY OF NEW PALTZ
Featuring BAC's Emerging Performing Artists Company (EPAC)
Sunday, June 22 @ 5pm
The Lemon Squeeze – 107 Main Street New Paltz
LIVE. LOCAL. BROADWAY. Join us for a night of show-stopping songs, heart, and community spirit as the Emerging Performing Artist Company presents a Benefit Concert for the FAMILY OF NEW PALTZ ❤️
🌟 Featuring Broadway show tunes, rising young talent, and surprise special guests straight from Broadway — this is a night you won’t want to miss!
📍 In collaboration with our amazing friends at The Lemon Squeeze – 107 Main Street New Paltz
📅 Sunday, June 22
⏰ Doors at 5:00 PM | Show starts at 6:00 PM
🎟 Suggested donation: $10 per person collected at the door. You can make checks out to Family of New Paltz.
🍽 A portion of all food & drink sales goes directly to support Family of New Paltz.
Let’s pack the house, lift our voices, and make a difference—together. 💛
This Summer is going to be
SO FETCH!
THE ANNOUNCEMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!
We’ve been keeping a major secret, and it’s finally time to spill the tea:
Our Summer Musical Theatre Workshop special guest star and master teacher is…
KRYSTINA ALABADO @krystinaalabado — aka Gretchen Wieners from Mean Girls on Broadway!**
We are thrilled to have her with us.
She’s not just teaching a masterclass (which is SO major), she’s also performing with our students in the end-of-week sharing.
Yes. You get to rehearse, train, and SLAY the stage with a real-life Plastic.
Some of her other credits are: American Idiot, Evita, American Psycho, Spring Awakening… and of course, she made fetch happen eight shows a week on Broadway in Mean Girls. And she's also the voice of Cherri Bomb in the hit animated series Hazbin Hotel on Amazon Prime.
So get your PINK ready (even if it’s not Wednesday), get your burn book of questions together, and let the countdown begin to the most FETCH week of the summer!!!
SOLD OUT!
PLEASE CONSIDER US FOR SUMMER 2026!
Krystina Alabado - Photo by Darren Cox - SpotCo
SUMMER MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP
@ SUNY New Paltz
Parker Theatre!
See you Summer 2025!
July 28-August 1
SOLD OUT!
PLEASE CONSIDER US FOR SUMMER 2026!
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2026 REGISTRATION will open in January 2026
In Partnership with
BAC is excited to announce our newly formed
EMERGING PERFORMING ARTIST COMPANY.
EPAC is a prestigious advanced theatre group, designed to nurture and enhance the talents of emerging young actors.
Accepting Applications for the
2025-26 School Year
EPAC for Grades 8-12
and introducing
EPAC Jr for Grades 5-8
Learn more about EPAC!
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Love! We love Denise! My daughter has thrived under her tutelage for many years. We started her performance journey at 8 with the Summerfords and now at 16, we have engaged BAC to help us prepare for college auditions! We have enjoyed seasonal, daily and summer master classes and camps. Thank you!
-- Nicole A., BAC parent
I can not recommend Broadway Arts Collective enough. This was such an amazing experience for my daughter and I can’t wait for the next one. I saw so much growth and confidence in my daughter from just the one week she attended.
-- T. White, BAC parent
My daughter has been training with Denise Summerford and Broadway Arts Collective for 7 years. In workshops with Broadway professionals, she has received incredible training in singing, dancing and acting. BAC has helped prepare her for college, where she will be studying Vocal Performance and Musical Theater. We are extremely grateful to Denise for providing such exceptional opportunities to learn, train and grow as an artist. I strongly recommend BAC if you have a child who wants to perform. There is no better training.
-- N.D., BAC parent
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BIG NEWS!
BAC is Recipient of the Ulster County Executive’s Arts Award for Arts in Education
John & Denise Summerford of Broadway Arts Collective receiving the Ulster County Executive's Arts Award for Arts in Education from US Congressman Pat Ryan, Former Ulster County Executive.
We are honored to receive the Ulster County Executive’s Arts Award for Arts in Education!
A big thank you to Arts Mid-Hudson & Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan! And a HUGE thanks to all of our students and families for your support. You made this all possible.
Additional thanks to our partners: All of our guest teaching artists, Brendan Burke & Shadowland Stages, SUNY New Paltz School of Fine and Performing Arts, Dutchess Community College, One Epic Place, Hudson Valley Conservatory, Kaleidoscope Arts Center & Black Sheep Recording Studios.
BAC Founder and Creative Director, Denise Summerford sings "For Good" from WICKED with long time students Sydney Druttman, Haley Collier and Andrew Geher - all 3 are attending college theatre programs. Congrats!
Accompanied by Katya Stanislavskaya.
Recorded & Engineered by Jeffrey Frey at Black Sheep Recording Studios in Gardiner, NY.
Thanks to all!
This was a performance for the Ulster County Executive's Arts Awards in which BAC received the Arts in Education Award.