CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Angone Project: Training and Professional Workshop Opportunity for Emerging Actors ALLEN MACINNIS Arsc Director NANCY J. WEBSTER Execuve Director Young People’s Theatre (YPT) is thrilled to announce The Angone Project, a new and innovave training/pro- fessional opportunity for emerging arsts from across Canada. This project consists of two components. Part I is a week-long, summer intensive program (August 27th-Sept. 2nd, 2016) co-taught by veteran director and teacher, David Latham (Straord’s Birmingham Conservatory, Naonal Theatre School) and Allen MacInnis (Arsc Director of Young People’s Theatre). This six-day session will focus on Epic Theatre, which can be described as a bold, high stakes story told through heightened language and big emoons. The demands of such theatre cannot be met without willing emersion in what it means to be a fully-alive human being. In Part II, three parcipants will be selected to return for a professional play development workshop (May 8th-19th, 2017) of Angone, creang an adaptaon of the play that focuses on the young characters (An- gone, Haemon and Ismene) and their perspecves. The emerging actors will work alongside two professional actors, a playwright and YPT’s Associate Arsc Directors, Karen Gilodo and Stephen Colella. Parcipants will gain the skills needed when working in a new play development/workshop environment including text analysis and developing sensivity towards the creave process. The workshop will culminate in two readings for an invited audience. The training poron of this program is free for selected parcipants thanks to generous support from the Slaight Family Foundaon. Some funding may also be available to offset some travel/accommodaon costs. The three emerging parcipants selected to parcipate in the adaptaon workshop and public readings will be paid Canadian Theatre Agreement rates. Applicants must be: • Training to be a professional actor at one of Canada’s theatre schools or parcipang in an actor training program offered through an arts organizaon. • Available for both the training and workshop dates of the program. Sessions will run from 9:30am-5:30pm. Public Reading mes are TBC. Applicants should send in a video of themselves performing two monologues. One must be from Angone (either Angone, Ismene or Haemon), the other is the actor’s choice. The video must not exceed four minutes. The video can be a DVD submission or a YouTube link. Applicants must also send in a brief leer (no more than 500 words) expressing their parcular interest in this training/workshop opportunity. Applicants should indicate how they might benefit from financial assistance for travel/accommodaon if required. Applicants must also include two reference leers from current instructors. Applicaon Deadline: May 27th, 2016 (mailed applicaons can be postmarked). Successful candidates will be nofied by June 24th, 2016. Applicaons may be emailed to [email protected] with the subject line “Angone 1617” or mailed to the aenon of: Given the many different skills theatre-school students are asked to learn, how does the emerging arst go deeply into any one of them? What sews together all of these skills? How can we learn to learn? (David Latham) Karen Gilodo, Associate Arsc Director, Educaon 165 FRONT ST. EAST TORONTO, ON M5A 3Z4 | YOUNGPEOPLESTHEATRE.CA