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INTERN - Children's Musical Theatre Creative Team

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The Stage

INTERN - Children's Musical Theatre Creative Team

Lincoln, CA
Paid
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    Job Description

    Job Description

    ATTENTION THEATRE STUDENTS

    We are seeking some creative and theatrical interns to join our growing organization.

    Intern Duties and Responsibilities

    $100-$250 STIPEND FOR EACH POSITION

    DIRECTOR:

    • Audition and cast actors
    • Oversee the production team
    • Provide design directives
    • Lead rehearsals

    MUSIC DIRECTOR:

    • Oversee all musical aspects of the production, including casting performers and rehearsing singers
    • Understand how songs and music serve a show’s story, setting, drama, and emotional context,
    • Develop an overall vision for the production's music, leading the musical aspects of the audition process and helping cast actors and singers

    CHOREOGRAPHER:

    • Must help realize the vision of a director or production team
    • Create powerful, evocative, and communicative movement sequences.
    • Communicate these movements to the movers (dancers, actors, etc.), and, in some cases, work directly with them as a movement coach, shaping the performance
    • Collaborate with theater designers in the costume, set, and lighting departments.
    • May need to choreograph movement to match the work of a specific composer or artist, a skill that requires a nuanced understanding of and strong relationship with music

    COSTUMER / WARDROBE

    • Begin with a close reading of the script—getting to know the roles and relationships of the principal characters
    • Researches designs, materials, and colors popular in the period, as well as details like how they might signify a character's social class.
    • Use a combination of sketches, photos, and digitally altered images to create a costume plot
    • Whether purchasing, creating, or tailoring costume pieces, the costume designer is in charge of the costume team, budget, and time frame for the project
    • Schedule fittings with actors and oversee costume alterations and repairs, as well as providing actors and stagehands with guidelines for their proper care

    LIGHTING DESIGNER / OPERATOR

    • Collaborate closely with other members of the design and production team, as well as the technical director.
    • Communicate ideas to the rest of the team using visual aids such as renderings, storyboards, and photographs
    • Before drafting a light plot, will take precise measurements of the space and assess the venue's power capacity, taking into account the location and position of fixtures, the truss, catwalk, stage, and other infrastructure
    • Program the lighting for the show, inputting cues into the board for every color, effect, and movement and overseeing installation of the lighting rig by lighting technicians

    SOUND DESIGNER / OPERATOR

    • Create sound effects, textures, atmospherics, and ambience that enhance the show's storyline, dramatic arc, or subtextual themes
    • Plan microphone and speaker placement such that the audience has the best possible sonic experience
    • Be both creative artists—contributing to the show's content and aesthetic—and engineers—improving the show's technical clarity and quality
    • Apply quick and clearheaded problem solving when something goes wrong
    • Assist in the integration of music
    • Edits and mixes the performance tracks
    • Plans and creates a bespoke sound system tailored to the demands of the production and theater
    • Work the soundboard for each performance, triggering effects and recorded music and fixing audio problems as they arise.

    MINI MUSICAL - 8 wks (ages 6-11)

    _ $100 STIPEND_

    Rehearsal Schedule

    8/22 - 10/5 : Tue & Thu 4-6pm

    Tech

    10/10 & 10/12 - 4-6pm

    Performances

    10/13 @7pm

    10/14 @11am & 2pm

    JUNIOR MUSICAL - 11 wks (ages 11-15)

    _ $250 STIPEND_

    Rehearsal Schedule

    8/21 - 10/13 : Mon/Wed/Fri 4-7pm & Tue/Thu 6-7pm

    Tech

    10/16 - 10/19 : 4-8pm

    Performances

    10/20 @7pm

    10/21 @ 2 & 7pm

    10/27 @7pm

    10/28 @ 2 & 7pm

    JUNIOR MUSICAL - 11 wks (ages 15-19)

    _ $250 STIPEND_

    Rehearsal Schedule

    8/28 - 10/26 : Mon-Thu 7-10pm

    Tech

    10/30 - 11/2 : 6-10pm

    Performances

    11/3 @7pm

    11/4 @ 2 & 7pm

    11/10 @7pm

    11/11 @ 2 & 7pm

    Intern Requirements and Qualifications

    • Must be CURRENTLY enrolled as a theatre or music major at an accredited university/college program to receive credit
    • Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
    • Must be 18 years of age
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • Self-directed and able to work without supervision