Xavier Players
Opportunities
PERSEVERANCE THEATRE, Alaska's flagship professional theatre, is seeking highly trained interns for our 2012-2013 season. We are looking for interns in the following areas: artistic, technical direction (carpentry, electrics, paints, props), stage management, production management and arts management. Perseverance prides itself on collaboration and hands-on learning. Internships generally run August through May. A stipend and housing will be provided. For more information, visit our website at www.perseverencetheatre.org<http://www.perseverencetheatre.org/>. Applications should include: resume, cover letter and two letters of recommendation. E-mail applications to Amy O'Neill Houck, amy@perseverancetheatre.org<mailto:amy@perseverancetheatre.org>. Deadline is April 16th.
THE KENNEDY CENTER
NEW PLAY DRAMATURGY INTENSIVE
In association with
The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas [LMDA]
and
The National New Play Network [NNPN]
Saturday July 21-Sunday July 29, 2012
Led by Mark Bly
With
John Baker, Literary Manager, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Madeleine Oldham, Resident Dramaturg and director of the Ground Floor, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Celise Kalke, Director of New Projects, Alliance Theatre
Gavin Witt, Senior Dramaturg, Centerstage
Amy Wegener, Literary Director, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Miriam Weisfeld, Director of New Play Development, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
and others
An eight-day Intensive program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts focusing on enriching the participants' experience as the key resource to the playwright and director of new work.
Eligible participants are current university students [undergraduate or graduate] and recent graduates entering the field. A limited number of places in the Intensive will be held for faculty. It is anticipated that up-to sixteen participants will be invited.
The program will consist of:
- Daily meetings with Mark Bly
- Assignments with mentor dramaturgs on the eight plays being developed and rehearsed during the MFA Playwrights' Workshop, produced in association with NNPN, at the Kennedy Center.
- Group sessions with each projects' dramaturg.
- Discussions on institutional new play development process and policy with the theatre companies represented on the creative teams of the MFA Playwrights' Workshop.
The creative teams are still being determined for summer 2012, but the theatres represented in 2011 were: Unicorn, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Centerstage, New Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Victory Gardens, Fountain Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Northlight, Kitchen Dog, and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre.
Each day's schedule will be coordinated with the MFAPW rehearsal blocks [9:30am-1:30pm, 2:30-6:30pm], with lunch meetings and early evening sessions.
Tuition and Housing:
$500
$500
Travel and meals are the responsibility of the participant. Shared Lodging will be in the residence halls of the George Washington University, in the Kennedy Center neighborhood.
To Apply:
-a letter of motivation for attending the New Play Dramaturgy Intensive
-a resume of related experience
-a letter of motivation for attending the New Play Dramaturgy Intensive
-a resume of related experience
-an appropriate writing sample
By: April 1, 2012.
By attached PDF or Microsoft Word documents
Invited participants will be notified by May 1, 2012
(Early submission and acceptance notification is possible if applicants' home institutions have earlier professional development funding deadlines. Please inquire.)
Mark Bly was the Chair of the Playwriting Program at the Yale School of Drama from 1992-2004 while being the Associate Artistic Director at the Yale Rep. Over the past thirty years he has served as a Dramaturg, Director of New Play Development, and Associate Artistic Director at such theatres as the Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Rep, and Yale Rep, dramaturging and producing over 150 plays. He has dramaturged on Broadway Emily Mann’s Execution of Justice (1985) and more recently Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations. Bly has served as the Dramaturg for the world premieres of plays by Rajiv Joseph, Suzan Lori-Parks, Tim Blake Nelson, Sarah Ruhl, and Moises Kaufman. Bly has written for numerous publications: Yale Theatre as Contributing Editor and Advisory Editor, Theatre Forum, American Theatre, Theater Topics, and LMDA Review. In 2010 Bly received the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas G.E. Lessing Career Achievement Award, only the fifth time the award was bestowed in the organization’s history.
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati is holding on-going auditions for actors aged 18-35 for roles in a part time touring production in the Spring of 2012. Looking for 3 men (one Hispanic) and 3 women (one African American). Compensation for rehearsals and performances. Please call Kelly Germain at 513-569-8080, ext. 20.
MFA PLAYWRITING PROGRAM at CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, DC
Catholic University of America is accepting applications for their MFA Playwriting Program, headed by award-winning playwright Jon Klein. This is the only MFA program in playwriting in the theatre-rich Washington, DC area - and with over 80 theatres in residence, there are many opportunities for professional internships, readings and productions available to graduate students. Previous and current playwrights have had such opportunities at Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Roundhouse Theatre, Theatre J, the DC Fringe Festival, and many more.
Other benefits of the program include access to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, where CUA students have won major awards for each of the last several years, and access to the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, in which an unprecedented two students were honored as finalists this year.
We also offer the opportunity for each student to have their thesis play fully produced, and directed by a professional director from the DC theatre community, in their final year.
Last but certainly not least, we are able to offer two full tuition fellowships for the three year program. The deadline to submit an application is January 30.
More information on the program, and how to apply, may be found here: http://drama.cua.edu/graduate/mfa-playwriting.cfm. You may also wish to peruse a recent list of CUA playwriting students and alumni, which can be found on my website at this page: http://www.jon-klein.com/catholic-university-mfa.html.
Our other graduate programs - the MFA in Acting, the MFA in Directing, the MA in Theatre History and Criticism, and the MA in Theatre Education, may be perused here: http://drama.cua.edu/graduate/index.cfm.
We hope to hear from you soon!
Jon Klein
Head, MFA Playwriting Program
Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
202-319-5360
Jon Klein is the author of over twenty plays, presented Off-Broadway and at over a hundred American regional theatres, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, the Arden Theatre, the Alley Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, and the Alliance Theatre. D.C. area productions include plays at Arena Stage, Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Roundhouse Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival (where he has also directed). He has won three NEA Playwriting Fellowships for his work, as well as the Dramatists Guild/CBS New Play Award, the HBO Playwrights USA Award, and playwriting fellowships from the Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations. He was a TCG/NEA Playwright-in-Residence at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, and a Playwright-in-Residence at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. He has taught playwriting and screenwriting at Ohio University, Harvard University, the University of Texas, the University of Washington, and Hollins University.