The Scuola del Teatro Musicale (STM) is Italy’s Performing Arts Center® for the training of actors, directors, musical theatre professionals, arts administrators, and for the promotion of theatre culture. STM has been active since 2013, when it was established in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro Carlo Coccia and Compagnia della Rancia. Since 2020, it has been an AFAM institution recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research through Ministerial Decree No. 421 of 30 July 2020 and Ministerial Decree No. 1794 of 20 November 2024.

STM guides its students through a personalised educational pathway, providing them with the skills required to become leading professionals in the world of national and international theatre productions, while nurturing and developing each individual’s artistic identity and talents.

STM guarantees a well-rounded education, in constant dialogue with the many facets of professional musical theatre, operating within an environment capable of providing students with the cultural stimulation necessary for artistic growth and maturity.

STM connects its students with artists, producers, directors, agents, specialists, and creative professionals in the industry, ensuring that alongside a comprehensive and conscious education, students benefit from a training pathway that is constantly in contact with working professionals, facilitating an effective transition into the professional world.

As a production centre, STM also enables its students to learn through direct backstage experience and offers real professional opportunities.

Since 2015, STM has also operated as a theatre production centre, making its debut with Next to Normal, one of the most groundbreaking productions in the international musical theatre landscape, winner of three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. Since 2017, STM has staged the Italian versions of the musicals Green Day’s American Idiot and tick, tick… BOOM!, the plays Dead Poets Society, La Piccola Città, Completely Booked, and AnMARCORD, and has co-produced with Fondazione Teatro Coccia the operas Le Nozze di Figaro and Ami e Tami. In 2025, STM inaugurated STM Studio, a multimedia venue within the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan.

STM develops inclusion programmes and projects with particular attention to situations of social disadvantage, aimed at young people with disabilities or experiencing significant family or economic hardship.

STM works with educational institutions to identify and address the need for democratic social participation, starting from the enhancement of self-awareness, personal knowledge and emotions, and the need to share them within an open and equal relational experience.

STM actively collaborates with Dynamo Camp and works in partnership with the STH Centres (Territorial Disability Support Services) of Galliate and Trecate, the Santa Lucia Residential Community for Minors in Novara, and the Elios Social Cooperative.