If all the world’s a stage, Colton Abraham certainly has picked a prime location to be a player.

Abraham, a senior at Auburn High School, will spend six weeks this summer as a student at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), studying Shakespeare and musical theater.

Abraham spent about five months preparing for his Seattle audition.

“I thought it looked like a really cool opportunity to do what I love during the summer,” he said, “but in London, of all places.”

“The farthest I’ve been is Oregon,” he added with a laugh.

His destination isn’t the only mind-boggling aspect to Abraham. While LAMDA holds auditions worldwide, it accepts only 15 students per summer class.

“I’m ecstatic that I got in,” he said.

Abraham also was offered a spot in LAMDA’s full-year program, but said it was cost-prohibitive. So he plans to immerse himself in the summer program, spending about seven hours a day at the academy.

“I’m basically going to eat, sleep and breathe theater while I’m there,” he said. “Once I go home, I will study the works they give me.”

But he does have one specific item on his England bucket list: visiting William Shakespeare’s birthplace. A fitting goal, considering he used a monologue from “Romeo and Juliet” in his LAMDA audition.

“He just has a way of putting so much dimension and emotion into even the smallest of characters,” he said of The Bard. “The one monologue I did, you really got to see the development with that one small character.”

Much as he has developed himself.

As a freshman, Abraham was focused on jumping hurdles for Auburn’s track team when theater teacher Warren Kerr encouraged him to try out for the spring play.

“Here’s a kid who can learn lines quickly and actually thinks about the character and what he’s saying,” Kerr said of Abraham, then a student in his acting class. “I just said, ‘Why don’t you give it a try and see what happens.’ “

Abraham had a grand total of zero lines in his acting debut as a pitchfork-carrying farmhand in “The Miracle Worker”, but he was hooked.

He came back for his sophomore year, and then was cast in Auburn’s musical as a junior, which he called “a blast.”

Although Abraham said he would like to do musical theater, he concedes he is “not the greatest singer.” To hone his skills, he joined Auburn’s chamber and show choirs, and enrolled in vocal-coaching class at Green River College.

Kerr says his pupil underestimates himself.

“He can sing, he just needs a little more confidence in what he can do,” Kerr said. “Not only can he sing, but he can project the character through the songs, which is not an easy thing. It’s kind of an adult skill.”

Abraham plans to finish his associate’s degree at Green River and then transfer to another college.

“To be an actor is not easy,” he said, adding that there is a 98 percent unemployment rate in the profession. “To be successful, there’s a long journey, (and) I just see LAMDA as the first step.

“Theater is not a job to me: it’s what I love to do.”