THE 2026 MOMENT WORK SUMMER INSTITUTE

June 8–26, 2026 | New York City

Professional Development Intensive | Devising Intensive for Theater Educators
Moment Work for the Director and Designer | Moment Work for the Actor | New Play Development Intensive | Moment Work and Songwriting
Full schedule here!


REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR OUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEACHER INTENSIVE

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTENSIVE FOR ARTISTS AND EDUCATORS

June 8–12, 2026 in New York City
Monday–Friday, 10 AM–6 PM

Our Professional Development Teacher Training, now in its 8th year, is specially designed for college professors and high school and middle school teachers to learn the method and pedagogy of Moment Work and practical applications for use in classrooms to enhance their existing curricula. Participants will explore the elements of the stage, learning our teaching philosophy and practice from our Advanced Teaching Artists Scott Barrow and Ricky Pak. Successful graduates of the program will receive a Certificate of Training from Tectonic's Moment Work Institute, Leigh Fondakowski, MWI Chair, under the Artistic Direction of Moisés Kaufman.


Tuition: $3000

SPACE IS LIMITED–  ONLY A FEW OPENINGS LEFT

 

DEVISING INTENSIVE FOR ARTISTS AND EDUCATORS

June 13 & 14, 2026 in New York City
Saturday and Sunday 11 AM–6 PM

For teachers who have successfully completed our Professional Development Teacher Training over the past seven cycles, long-time company member and head writer of The Laramie Project, Leigh Fondakowski, guides Theater Educators through a practicum to structure their own devising processes to create new work with their students.

Tuition: $600
*Prerequisite: Professional Development Teacher Training any year

 

“Working with Tectonic has reaffirmed the power of theatre and storytelling and how much we really appreciate the act of coming together, both to create something and to experience something that people have created – it is humanizing and it is emotional, and it is absolutely wonderful.”

- Brian Willis, MFA Student