As of 1/8/03, here are the companies who have confirmed their attendance at Next Step:

• Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, Santa Maria, CA (Year-round Equity/summer EMC program)
• Falcon Theatre, Burbank, CA (LORT Children’s Theatre – Equity/EMC)
• Moonlight Stage Productions (Equity Summer Stock Musicals) Vista, CA
• Neil Simon Festival, Cedar City, UT (Equity summer stock)
• TVI Los Angeles Summer Acting Program for Film & TV
• CSU Summerarts, Fresno
• Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
• Ojai Shakespeare Festival, Ojai, CA (Spring/Summer Shakespeare)
• Palm Canyon Theatre, Palm Springs, CA (year-round EMC program/Equity SPT)
• Music Theatre of San Jose (Equity/WCLO) San Jose, CA
• Old Lyric Repertory Theatre, Logan, UT (non-union summer repertory)
• Western Stage Company, Salinas, CA (non-union summer repertory)
• Starlight Bowl (Equity Summer Stock Musicals) San Diego, CA
• Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, Thousand Oaks, CA (Equity Shakespeare Company)
• Summer Repertory Theatre, Santa Rosa, CA (non-union summer repertory)
• Santa Fe Opera (Tech only)
• Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum
• Performance Riverside
• Western Washington University Summer Repertory
• Coeur D'Alene (Idaho) Summer Theatre
• Missoula Children's Theatre
  Graduate Schools
• UNLV
• San Diego State
• Cal State Fullerton