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Undergraduate Students:
The undergraduate Vocal Performance program in Music Theatre is made up of outstanding students who are committed to intensive performance training within the stimulating academic environment of an internationally acclaimed liberal arts/research university. Our Music Theatre majors tend to have a strong grounding in musicianship skills and most play an instrument. They are committed to classically based voice training and are happy to take advantage of the opportunity to cross traditional lines and participate in opera workshops as well as fully-staged opera productions. As a result of this commitment to serious vocal study combined with an in-depth acting curriculum our students are well prepared to enter the world of professional music theatre performance.
Graduate Students:
The graduate Vocal Performance program in Music Theatre is made up of outstanding students who are committed to intensive performance training within the stimulating academic environment of an internationally acclaimed liberal arts/research university. Some of our Music Theatre majors come to our program from an undergraduate degree in vocal performance, but others take this opportunity to explore music theatre and voice training as a follow-up to an undergraduate degree in another field. Our Music Theatre graduate students are committed to a foundation in classically based voice training and often take advantage of the opportunity to cross traditional lines and participate in opera workshops as well as fully staged opera productions. As a result of this commitment to serious vocal study combined with an in-depth acting curriculum our Music Theatre graduate students are well prepared to enter the world of professional performance.
Jay Armstrong Johnson is a native of Fort Worth, Texas currently
pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance/Music
Theatre. At NYU Steinhardt he has been seen in the title
roles of King David in Alan Menken and Tim Rice's King David and as
Floyd in Floyd Collins. Other NYU credits are Next Thing You
Know, 110 in the Shade (Jimmy), Urinetown (Hot Blades Harry/dance
captain), ODIN: The Opera (Baldar) and the Player's Club production of
Romeo & Juliet (Romeo).
Crystal Mosser is a Master's Candidate in the Program in Vocal
Performance at New York University. Favorite roles include Christine in
Maury Yeston’s Phantom and Casilda in The Gondoliers (under Dir. Doug Hodge), Anna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance (Dir. Bill Wesbrooks), Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Eurydice in Orpheus in the Underworld (Dir. Martha Collins), u/s Amber in Hairspray, Ragtime, Titanic
and singing “Glitter and Be Gay” with the NYU Symphony Orchestra at the
Skirball Center under the direction of John Simpkins. Last summer, she
worked at the regional Schoolhouse Theatre on Sanibel Island, Florida as well as performing Marty in Grease
with American Idol alum John Stevens in Buffalo, NY. She has also
appeared with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the
Keller Competition. 
Gregory Williams is a senior in the Vocal Performance/Music Theatre program in NYU Steinhardt. From Long Island, New York, Gregory studies voice with Prof. Michael Ricciardone. At NYU, Gregory has been a member of the Student Advisory Council, All University Gospel Choir and he is an MLK Spirit scholar, a Peer Educator, and a Resident Assistant. He was also recently accepted into the NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program dedicated to the betterment of conditions in student affairs.