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Every year, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival selects 12-14 talented theatre artists ages 13 years and older to perform in its Shakespeare in the Park production and to take part in an intensive two-week training program. These students are known as the "Apprentice Company" and are selected based upon auditons in the spring.
2011 Shakespeare in the Park Production: Romeo and Juliet
Students who are cast in this company receive training from Nashville's finest professional teaching artists in:
- Voice
- Movement
- Text Analysis
- Stage Combat
- Physical Improvisation
- Clowning
- Dance
- Monologue Preparation
In addition to performing alongside some of Nashville’s most talent actors, apprentices gain hands-on experience working with The Festival’s technical staff in areas such as lighting, sound, and costuming. An important initiative of The Nashville Shakespeare Festival, the Apprentice Company is designed to both enhance understanding of Shakespearean works as well as train future leaders in Nashville’s cultural community.
The training is challenging, extremely rewarding, and intensely fun! Apprentices play supporting roles in the production and take on important backstage responsibilities as well. Please note: Shakespeare in the Park is physically strenuous; middle Tennessee summers are intense and acting is a full-bodied commitment!
Please contact our Education Director for more information: beki@nashvilleshakes.org
Apprentice Company members Christy White and Stephen Berryessa
in the 2007 Shakespeare in the Park production ofThe Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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Apprentice Ashley DiGiorgi (left) in a scene with actress Marin Miller in Macbeth.
Photo by Roger Gibbs.
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Auditions: April 17
Training: July 6 - 16, 10am-3pm
Rehearsal: July 18 - August 17, 5-10 pm
Performance: August 18 - September 18, Thursday-Sunday evenings
Tuition: $500 (Some scholarships available)
Participants must be available for all classes, rehearsals, and performances July through September unless any conflicts are cleared with the Apprentice Company Director at the time of the audition.
Audition Info (click)
2011 Apprentice Company
"This program is like no other I have ever experienced. I learned so much in so little time…not just about theater, but about myself." -Ashley DiGiorgi, Apprentice Company 2005 & 2006
"To spend a summer in the park is sort of like building a tree house in the highest, fruitiest branches of the proverbial Tree of Knowledge. The feat is not easy: it requires energy and drive and willingness to learn, but if one is truly COMMITTED to absorbing all that the experience has to offer, the fruit will fall in abundance."
-Caitlin Kelly, Apprentice Company 2009
If you have participated in ApCo over the years,please join our FB group:
Official Nashville Shakespeare Festival Apprentice Company Alumni
We would love to keep up our relationship with you!
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