Joining the HotCity Team...
It's so easy, and we make it that way to attract the great number of artists and volunteers we need to produce a full season of six exciting events.
Select the link that interests you the most to find out we who are looking for, and what it takes to join the family.
- Actors/Auditions
- Volunteers
- Technicians and Designers
- Directing for HotCity
- Becoming a Board Member
- Internships
- Joining the administrative or artistic staff
HotCity Theatre Internship Program
HotCity Theatre is offering a formal internship program in Technical Theatre beginning Fall of 2010. This program is appropriate for high school and college students who want to participate in a cirriculum that is focused on any area of theatre production. Each program may include experience in as few or as many disciplines as desired, from lighting, sound, scenery, properties, costumes, or production management. The program is highly customizable but the basic outline is as follows:
• Bi-weekly meetings with the Production Manager and/or Assistant Production Manager. These meetings are first to discuss your goals for the internship, questions you have while you work with us, to discuss progress, and to evaluate the program.
• Production Meetings with the company: HotCity produces four shows that all occur during the school year, and you will be required to attend many of these meetings.
• Talkbacks: We require interns to attend designer talkbacks to ask questions and learn more about the show, the process, and the field.
• Attend at least two advance meetings with the designer of your preferred field.
• Work with that designer during the build, loadin, tech, of the production.
• Participate in strike of the show.
• Maintain a weekly journal of your work, questions, and progress.
• Write a short “post mortem” of the experience for your school and your own records.
Theatre requires a very specific schedule that relates directly to the production of the show. The bulk of every intern’s work will be completed in a 2-4 week period surrounding the show run. A typical commitment with HotCity Theatre would include between 90 and 120 hours of work per semester, based on your individual class requirements and the number of credit hours you enroll in. This is made clear in your Internship Agreement, a basic contract that details more specifically the distribution of hours.
More information about HotCity Theatre and our Intern Program:
HotCity is a St. Louis-based professional theatre company that works under contract with Actors’ Equity Association. Interns are expected to maintain a high quality of professionalism in their work with our company.
Currently, there is a limit of two intern positions per semester. These positions are unpaid, although you will be provided means for parking and reimbursed for any out of pocket expenses
For more information about the program or to inquire about enrollment, please contact Kimberly Klearman at: kimberly@hotcitytheatre.org
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - 2006