<p>soozievt - it sounds like another amazing experience for your amazing D! </p>
<p>Did she have any regrets about staying around school during the summer? Did it ever make it harder to go back in the fall if she never really left during the summer?</p>
<p>No, she loved it. During the school year, it is so busy, there is hardly any time to really go out and enjoy and explore NYC and there was more time in summer. Soooo many of her college peers opted to stay in NYC for summer, and after her first summer of summer stock, she only wanted to work in NYC in summers and this job working on the show for NYU was a great job with great pay and she had several friends in it too, one of whom is her BF. But she also did this job after graduating as it was a good gig. </p>
<p>It wasn’t hard to go back in the fall because what she did in summer was not like going to school…it was working on a show, creating it and rehearsing it and not going to classes. Also, she was then able to do other things in the city those summers too, like her own gigs or one summer she also was in a workshop of a new musical for Tisch Graduate Musical Theater Writing. She had time to fit in other things besides her main job. Or one summer, she was in a musical at a venue in NYC in which a fellow directing student directed it and her fellow performing students were cast in it but it had nothing to do with school. </p>
<p>This might be different than staying at a school that is a campus but for my D it was more than the college related musical she worked on, but summers in NYC doing several things. The college job paid her way all summer as we do not pay for our kids’ summers once they are in college and live away from home (which they have done every summer). Anyway, she did not audition for summer stock except that one summer after freshman year and much preferred her summer gigs in NYC in subsequent summers.</p>
<p>PS, I forgot but one summer she did another job at Tisch. She was the accompanist for the MT pre-college program after her soph year when she was 18. She did NYU Reality Show for NYC the next two summers and NYU Reality Show for Abu Dhabi as musical director only and not performing the one summer after that. So, technically, only one summer DURING college was Reality Show, and one summer was Tisch Pre-College job.</p>
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<p>I’m so glad to hear others have that philosophy as it’s also our plan but I wasn’t sure if it was unreasonable!</p>
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<p>Also glad to hear this, as our D missed all her summer stock audition opportunities this summer due to school performance conflicts, but I wasn’t sure if there might be unforeseen negatives to working on campus during the summer. Great to hear it worked well for your D!</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience for summer interns that are not musical theatre based? This is probably an ignorant question, but are summer stock auditions always MT? Can anyone share their straight acting summer experiences? My D is not interested in MT at all; probably at this point her dream summer internship would be in Shakespeare. Thanks so much.</p>
<p>@hoveringmom - The Texas Shakespeare Festival (Kilgore) offers summer internships, however, they are generally behind-the-scenes, not acting roles. Most of the acting roles go to MFA’s, recent MFA grads, and a few equity actors. The festival does a mix of Shakespeare, other plays from the period, and one musical.</p>
<p>@hoveringmom - don’t know if they offer internships, but I used to work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and it’s fantastic, so that might also be worth investigating!</p>
<p>Shakespeare & CO in Lenox, MA has a summer intern program as well as a summer training program for undergrads and recent grads.</p>
<p>thatsmyboy - I think that’s not happening this year. hoveringmom, check their website.</p>
<p>Here is the information on internships at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The applications are closed for this season but are open for summer of 2013 already. It is an amazing place. It so happens my daughter is going to be there in a few days. </p>
<p>[FAIR</a> - Apprenticeships - Oregon Shakespeare Festival](<a href=“Company - Oregon Shakespeare Festival”>Company - Oregon Shakespeare Festival)</p>
<p>Yes the summer performance intern company program is on hiatus this year… it requires an audition and interview anyway so I was not recommending it for this summer as it would have been too late.
The summer training institute is happening this summer, I believe</p>
<p>My D worked in the box office at the Texas Shakespeare Festival last summer and had a blast. Made great contacts with actors and directors from all over the country. But, she couldn’t face the idea of another summer in Kilgore this summer so she staying in DC this year - interning with a theatre company with a small stipend.</p>
<p>There are definitely opportunities for straight actors during the summer. Institute of Outdoor Drama hosts a regional audition and many of those roles are straight acting. IODs is not as large in terms of the number of theatres there but also not nearly the number of actors auditioning as what you see at some of the other regional auditions. Your D can apply for acting only slots at SETC, NETC, StrawHats, etc. as well.<br>
<a href=“http://outdoordrama.unc.edu/auditions[/url]”>http://outdoordrama.unc.edu/auditions</a></p>
<p>My D started applying for internships in late November/early December I believe. I have the spreadsheet and it was just like keeping track of college auditions! Everyone needed something different too. Most of what she looked for required an audition but a few were application/interview based. Some of the by audition ones would accept a video. Most provided housing and a small stipend but at couple were “pay to play” internships. In the end, she was cast from her audition at StrawHats so is set for this summer. But I am glad she went through the process she did, especially since she did get some interest from those applications.</p>
<p>Thanks SO much for all this info. We are Philly area based, so I do know the Delaware Shakespeare Festival also auditions for college interns, as well as the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (although I think they take mostly from DeSales?), and several professional theatres take college interns to work in mostly non-acting capacities, albeit with great contacts, general experience, and overall opportunities.</p>
<p>austinmtmom, that’s a great link. Does anyone know if there any other general auditions - like outdoordrama - that funnel toward straight theatre? Or would my D have to apply to each individual theatre? </p>
<p>And soozievt, big congrats to your D! ALthough of course, she’s already a graduate; is Oregon mostly focused on graduates and MFA candidates? I do know the Washington one is focused on grads and MFA grads/candidates. Anyone know anything about Canada or do they operate entirely differently from US summer work?</p>
<p>I’m really glad this thread was started–very practical advice! And thank you also for the heads up about planning early for this. My D wouldn’t start her program until this upcoming fall - and she still is undecided about her particular program - so her applications wouldn’t be until the end of this year or so, but it’s never too early to start thinking about this!</p>
<p>Also, megpmom, did your daughter audition separately for the Texas theatre last year and for the DC area theatre this year? Or did she she get the interns based on a general audition/application? Thanks!</p>
<p>Each theatre is different. Some attend the various regional auditions; others hold auditions at their theatre. Some accept audition videos while others do not.</p>
<p>Here is the info from Texas Shakespeare Festival for 2012. Their acting intern company was 5 men and 2 women this year, so as you can imagine there would be lots of applicants for those 7 spots. They had several audition opportunities:
[Acting</a> | Texas Shakespeare Festival](<a href=“http://www.texasshakespeare.com/employment/acting-opportunities/]Acting”>http://www.texasshakespeare.com/employment/acting-opportunities/)</p>
<p>Just as another example, here’s one that was in attendance at StrawHats this year. Obviously straight acting opportunities here.
Theatre Under the Stars/Shakespeare in the Valley:
<a href=“StrawHat | Home”>StrawHat | Home;
<p>One great source of information is going to be the current students and faculty at your D’s school. I know right now that CCU is compiling a list of where everyone will be working this summer. That will help in future years as students are deciding which auditions to attend and what internships to apply for. Plus they share experiences about what to expect if you are hired at one of these theatres.</p>
<p>hoveringmom, I can’t answer questions about interns/apprentices at Oregon Shakespeare Festival beyond what I read in the link I posted. My D is not an intern or apprentice but has another kind of contract with OSF. She is based in NYC.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, austinmtmom! This is really awesome info. I’ll pass this along to my D.</p>
<p>One of my theatre students is doing the Apprenticeship at the VA Shakespeare Festival this summer – [William</a> & Mary -*Acting Auditions](<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/as/vsf/jobs/auditions/index.php]William”>http://www.wm.edu/as/vsf/jobs/auditions/index.php) – <a href=“http://www.wm.edu/as/vsf/jobs/internships/index.php[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/as/vsf/jobs/internships/index.php</a> – The festival is on the William and Mary campus.</p>
<p>I had the pleasure of seeing AlexaMT and BvilleLady’s S in GREASE at Gretna Theatre this past weekend. Such a fun show and a very talented cast! Terrific acting and vocals top to bottom. And talk about hard working. It was hot sitting in the audience - I can’t imagine what it was like to be up on stage dancing in a leather jacket! Seeing a show in that environment gives you a real appreciation for how dedicated these actors are.</p>
<p>austinmtmom, huge congrats to your D & to bvillelady’s S!!! You guys must be incredibly proud.</p>