NEW YORK CITY: The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) is accepting purposes for its 2022-23 Professional Development Program Season Cycle 1. The program offers alternatives for early profession administrators and choreographers to look at and/or help skilled administrators and choreographers throughout the manufacturing course of.
This 12 months’s program will give attention to early-career artists however can even settle for entries from mid-career artists. Three forms of alternatives can be supplied: shadows, observers, and fellows. Shadows are short-term alternatives to look at one particular side of a manufacturing course of, whereas observerships are production-long alternatives to look at the manufacturing course of from first rehearsal to opening evening, and fellowships will permit people to help a director and/or choreographer throughout a manufacturing course of as a part of the inventive workforce.
The objective is to offer mentorship and entry to newer choreographers and administrators who haven’t but seen, shadowed, or labored on extra superior productions.
This 12 months’s first cycle is providing candidates alternatives to shadow choreographer JoAnn M. Hunter throughout tech of Bad Cinderella on Broadway, and resident director Hannah Ryan on Hamilton on Broadway. Observership alternatives embrace observing director Anne Kauffman on The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window by Lorraine Hansberry at Brooklyn Academy of Music; director and choreographer Susan Stroman on New York, New York on Broadway; and director Thomas Kail on Sweeney Todd on Broadway. Fellowship alternatives embrace supporting director Desdemona Chiang on a co-production of Young Americans by Lauren Yee, going down at each Portland Center Stage and Pittsburgh Public Theater, and director KJ Sanchez on a manufacturing of Private Lives by Noël Coward at Arizona Theatre Company.
Applications are due Dec. 5. More data on this system might be discovered at https://sdcfoundation.org/professional-development-program/.
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation celebrates, develops, and helps skilled stage administrators and choreographers all through each section of their careers.
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