This summer I will be lucky enough to one of my favorite things. I get to mentor an intern. Now if your first thought was lucky Jodi you have someone to go get you a diet coke when you want one – you are so wrong and please never mentor an intern. If your response was “wow, Jodi you are lucky you get to help teach a future leader of theater” than read on.
Internships/apprenticeships are vital to both commercial and nonprofit theater. Without these wonderful (and they should all strive to be wonderful) experiences most theater professionals wouldn’t be working today. So when I got this opportunity I decided to build one of the best theater internships EVER.
My wonderful summer intern, who you will meet the first week of June, doesn’t know it yet but she is going to be a guest blogger on Off-Stage Right this summer. (This is also a test to see if she has been reading my blog as preparation like I asked her to). We are going to embark on a wonderful theater adventure together where she will work with and observe some of the best folks I know in this business as she explores what she wants to focus on in her studies. Of course it helps that I already know she is an intelligent and talent future leader for the arts.
Here is a brief overview of her internship – I will let you start guessing who the participants who have agreed to generously work with me on this are. Of course through this all I will be meeting with her regularly and we will be using social media tools to review/share what she is learning:
- Two weeks of immersion in the New York theater community with me as her guide during which she will see shows every night (on and off-Broadway) and interview over a dozen theatre professionals from the commercial and nonprofit world.
- Two weeks working with one of the best commercial General Managers in the business.
- Two weeks working at one of top agencies in the country.
- Two weeks working with someone who I believe is the absolute best commercial theater producer out there.
- Two weeks at the biggest casting agency in theater.
So everyone get ready to follow her adventures.
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That sounds like an awful lot of fun.
I am hoping so. I think it will be interesting to see if as mentor and intern we can start a conversation via new media tools for others to listen in on.
Can I be your intern next summer? Sounds awesome!
Wow… This is a lot of pressure. But I can’t wait!
I have complete faith in you! You are going to have a great summer.