<p>I've been reading a lot of previous posts, and it seems like a lot of people mention paid theater jobs in New York City (not summer stock). Does this mean that many college BFA students get jobs working for casting agencies, theater companies, etc? I thought that those were all internships. What other theater jobs are out there?</p>
<p>To soozievt: I know you mentioned that your daughter got some of these jobs during the summer. Did she get these opportunities through some career service at Tisch, NYU, or her studios? Or did she seek these opportunities out herself?</p>
<p>My D has friends who work for theater companies (ie. The Public Theater). I am not sure how each person got their jobs but networking is a big factor, I am sure. </p>
<p>My D’s jobs have been for pay. I am not sure which jobs you are referring to in previoius posts of mine. She has never used the career office at NYU. Most of her work has been through networking…people who know her work and offer to hire her or opportunities she may seek out or even create for herself. </p>
<p>Hmmm…let me think of some paid work she has done…
She has been a paid musical director at a professional rate of pay on several occasions. Some of these jobs are through a faculty member who is a playwright/director and has simply offered her these jobs (my D did not apply for anything). That person also paid her to transcribe some of her scores for her. While she doesn’t have time for it, she has also worked for a MT program for kids and she contacted them in her freshmen year and the owners knew mutual people and knew of my D. My D has subsequently gotten jobs for her friends at that place. Let’s see. She has recorded CDs of new musicals for pay and the composers knew of my D and cast her. She worked one summer as an accompanist in the vocal classes for the pre-college Tisch MT program but hasn’t had time for that since (though I think she could get work doing that for the regular college now that she is a graduate as well). She has also played gigs…some of her own and then others have asked her to play piano for their gigs for pay. Then of course, she has been cast in shows, some for pay, some not. She also creates her own opportunities such as she composed a musical that a theater in NYC is producing this month. One could say she is being paid in that she will earn money through ticket sales but she has expenses she must use it for as she is paying her musicians and also a professional CD recording in a studio of her musical. Being at NYU and being in NYC, there is a great deal of networking and one thing can lead to another. That’s what I observe with her and with her friends.</p>