Class A interns work at Theatre Three for one full season (approximately one year), have already completed their bachelor's degree and are paid a salary of $250 a week.
Theatre Three is proud to offer this unique internship opportunity to people who have just graduated and are interested in a career in professional theatre. Interns can develop experience in a wide range of areas within the theatre. An intern can expect to learn a general overall view of a professional theatre by working in each of the following catagories:
Production Assistant
- Manage the audition process
- Rehearsal assistance
- Meeting recorder at production meetings with designers and communicator of needs for the production to non-present staff members
- "2nd unit work"- that is, taking a group of actors into a second space and rehearsing them while director work with another set of actors
Assistant to the Technical Director
- Assist the Lighting Designer including hang and focus
- Assist the Master Carpenter with the set build at the off-site warehouse
- Assist with load-in, build, and strike of sets
- Assist the scenic painter
- Assist with general building maintenance
Customer Service Staffer
- Handle all duties including customer information, ticket processing, reservation processing, and accounting on phone, on-line, and in person
- Assist house manager with housekeeping duties associated with receiving the public
- Assist house manager with concessions or party food connected with celebratory evenings
Administrative Assistant
Needs strong word-processing and writing skills
- Gather and prepare material for playbill
- Track print jobs using publication log
- Provide update of web site info as directed to webmaster
- Manage publicity photos and clippings
- Assist with setup and strike of Press Nights
- Assist in mail-outs to subscribers and donors
The application deadline for this internship is April 16, 2010.
To apply for this internship, please send a cover letter specifying your interest in this internship program, a resume, and two letters of recommendations by April 16, 2010 to:
Kimberly Richard
Theatre Three Internship Program
2800 Routh Street #168
Dallas, Texas 75201
Phone: (214) 871-3300, option 2.
Fax: 214-871-3139
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