Be a Theatre Ambassador at Park Square Theatre
Are you a student in 10th-12th grade (class of 2015, 2016 or 2017) that loves theatre and wants to learn more about Acting, Directing, and Design from Professional Theatre Artists?
If so, Park Square Theatre Ambassadors Program may be for you!!
How do I apply for the Park Square Theatre Ambassadors Program?
· Application Process: Students must submit an application, two Candidate Endorsements from High School teachers or theatre and/or theatre professionals they have worked with and complete a phone interview. Applications are due May 16, 2014.
· Selection Process: Participants in the program will be selected by Park Square Theatre Staff. Ambassador finalists and alternates will be announced June 16, 2014.
· Tuition Cost: $125 or $25 for students who qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch.
· Age Level and Eligibility: 10th-12th graders as of 9/1/14
What’s in it for you?
· Take Master Classes from professionals in Voice, Movement, Stage Makeup, Acting, Stage Combat and Musical Theatre.
· Learn about Theatre Design (scenic, costume, lighting, sound) from professional theatre designers.
· Attend six shows at Park Square and discuss them with your peers and the artists who created them.
· Get career advice from theatre professionals.
· Become a part of a group of teens from throughout the metro who enjoy theatre as much as you do.
· Bring a free theatre workshop to your school or community.
What will the theatre ask of you?
· Attend all seven sessions. (Absences for theatre performances are excused.)
· Plan and invite five students to an event to introduce them to the Theatre Ambassadors Program.
· Connect a teaching artist to other students in your community by coordinating and advertising a theatre workshop to be taught in your school.
· Read excerpts from scripts.
· Blog or journal about your opinions and thoughts about the shows.
What days will you be needed?
· Theatre Ambassadors meet one Saturday a month September - May. Generally meetings run from 4:00 – 11:00 pm (expect one meeting in January or February will be 12:00 – 6:00 pm).* A final schedule will be provided to Ambassadors in the summer prior to the first meeting.
· Sample Schedule: Exploring Theatricality
4:30-5:00pm Discussion about and Experiments with the Script from Oliver Twist.
5:00-6:15pm The Actor’s Instrument...Communicating with the Body with Kym Longhi.
6:15-7:15pm Theatricality...Designing and Directing Oliver Twist. Joel Sass will share his creative process
from pitching the show to designing and directing it at Park Square.
7:30-10:00pm Attend a performance of a stunning new adaptation of Dickens’s Oliver Twist.
10:00-11:00pm Social and Group Discussion
*Dates, productions and artists subject to change