Thursday, January 24, 2008

Scary Real Theatre World Stuff

So the last several days, I've been getting myself into gear in terms of...what am I going to do at the end of the TRR season in August? I need to move out of Newport News, I need a theatre job with someone who's not Denise or Steven (as much as it deeply pains me to say that because I LOVE working with them), and I need to start seriously being a grown-up.

I need a theatre that's going to pay their interns AND provide housing. Because even paid interns don't get enough to pay rent, especially depending on where you are. Based on that, my current places I'm going to apply to are:

The Shakespeare Theatre of DC (they offer a directing fellowship! eee!)
CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore
Portland Stage Company in Maine...that would be a hell of an environment change!
The Studio Theatre in DC
Long Wharf Theatre in Connecticut...also a hell of a change.
Florida Stage in - you guessed it - Florida!

There are a couple more on my list that I'm going to call to see if they provide housing and such, but that's the initial one.

So the point of this job rambling that no one cares about but me is that it's really crunch time to get my portfolio finished. I had a first draft finished at the end of last year and got great feedback from Peter and Denise. Unfortunately, I didn't write it down and then the holidays happened so I don't remember what the hell I'm supposed to do with this thing. GAH. I mean, I have some things that I need to add and take out and switch up and such...I don't know, I guess I'm just a little paranoid and panicked. And I'll also have to make copies of it that I can mail out to the companies - and how am I supposed to create high-quality copies? It's just madness.

2 comments:

Sterling Dawn said...

how do you create high-quality copies, you ask??

answer: spend one billion dollars.

Annie said...

I don't have one billion dollars!

Damn it!