3rd Annual Intern Show (press release)
Seaside Repertory Theatre
Media inquiries, please contact Jenny Dargavell
info@seasiderep.org / 850.231.3033
February 22, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Seaside Repertory Theatre announces its 3rd Annual Rep Intern Winter Production.
Seaside, FL — The Seaside Repertory Theatre starts 2010 with two fabulous short plays, presented by the Rep Intern Company. In How to Succeed in High School Without Really Trying! a group of student agents infiltrate an assembly to demonstrate their secret tips and tricks, ranging from legally changing your name to avoid roll call, to using Tom Cruise to help memorize science terms. In Variations on a Theme, Nick comes to a train station to find his sweetheart and see if he can fix things with her. While he waits for her to arrive, he imagines all of the different ways their conversation may play out. Both plays are directed by Rep Artistic Director Brook Stetler, and feature 2010 Rep interns Will Dargavell, Kaylyn Carter, Grayson Gilbert, Lucy Livingston, Wade Howard, and David Weintraub (not pictured).
This production will run for two nights only, Friday March 5, and Saturday March 6, at 7:30 PM, in the Seaside Meeting Hall Theatre. Doors open at 7:00pm. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased online at www.seasiderep.org or by calling the Rep box office at 850-231-0733. All proceeds from the intern shows directly benefit the Seaside Repertory Theatre Intern Program.
“We are very proud of our interns and what they are able to accomplish over the course of a year,” says Rep Intern Manager and company member Anne Marie Carroll. “The Intern Program has added so much to the vitality of our theatre, and our presence in the community. The Intern Productions offer a great opportunity for them to demonstrate their skills, while having fun and raising money for the program.”
Any interested local high-school aged students are invited to join the Seaside Repertory Theatre’s year-long unpaid Internship Program. Each intern dedicates 15 hours per week/60 hours per month to learning and performing every responsibility associated with operating a professional theatre, including working backstage crews for sets, lights, sound, costumes and props. Interns work closely with professional directors, designers, crew, and actors while providing labor support, in order to understand each process from start to finish. Rep interns also operate the box office and perform house management and ushering duties during the Rep’s main stage productions, and spend time in the Rep office, learning administrative operations including marketing, public relations, fundraising and memberships. An educational component is currently being developed which will offer bi-monthly workshops with a professional company member teaching the interns different artistic elements of theatre. Workshops will include acting through monologue work and scene study, improv techniques, script analysis and writing, and directing short scenes. Every summer and winter, the interns produce a play, directed by a Rep professional company member, and present the play on the Rep’s main stage, with all proceeds directly benefitting the Rep Intern Program. For more information on the Rep Intern Company, please contact Anne Marie Carroll at 850-231-3033 or acarroll@seasiderep.org.
