The 92nd Street Y Unveils Full Lineup for Summer Cabaret Conference

After a thrilling inaugural year in 2024, The 92nd Street Y, New York’s School of Music has announced the full lineup for the 2025 92NY Summer Cabaret Conference running July 14-18, 2025.

As previously announced, the week-long intensive in the art form of cabaret will again be led by Tony winner and Broadway legend Faith Prince alongside award-winning cabaret performer, director, and historian Michael Kirk Lane. Also returning for a second year are musical directors Yasuhiko (Yaz) Fukuoka and Alex Rybeck.  New featured guest teachers will be James Jackson, Jr. (A Strange Loop), Tony Nominee Sally Mayes (She Loves Me), and Executive Director of the American Songbook Association, Carolyn Montgomery.   

A bevy of panelists will also be part of this year’s conference, including: Tom Dangora, Jeff Harnar, Barry Kleinbort, Lina Koutrakos, Tanya Moberly, Sidney Myer, Amanda Raymond, Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Darnell White, and Kelly Wohlford. 

The conference is part of 92NY School of Music’s expanded focus on professional classes for the cabaret and concert stage, which was recently featured in the New York Times. In her interview with the publication, Prince, who can currently be seen on Broadway in Boop! The Musical, said to the Times, “I say to the students, I'm sitting on ya - and that's a good thing, because sometimes they can be tapping into something deep within themselves, and I'm really going to ask them to go there." 

This second annual conference will accept 12 singers to work alongside the artists. Performers interested in working with the artists must complete this short pre-screening form. Chosen performers will be notified no later than June 15, 2025. Anyone can audit the Conference for the week or by the day and there is no deadline for those registrations. Learn more here. 

Scholarship support for this program has been generously provided, in part, by a collaboration with The American Songbook Association.