Apprentice Program
The Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Apprentice Program at CITF (Inaugural Season 2010) offers 20-30 promising students age 18 and up an exciting opportunity to expand their theatre education and training over a period of three intensive weeks.
Jack Oakie and Victoria Horne Oakie Apprentice Program Information
Apprentices will attend daily workshops with acclaimed faculty and special seminars with visiting artists from around the globe. This unique international training program will expose students to a series of diverse acting, movement, & vocal disciplines including commedia, clown, mask work, kabuki and innovative character creation, taught by Grotowski, Decroux, Adler, & Lecoq trained master teachers. It also will provide apprentices with hands-on experience in producing and launching an international theatre festival. Classes are taught by a dedicated international group of artist faculty that includes Master Teachers from Universities and theatres nationwide as well as international artists from the festival. Summer 2010 will feature Business Bistro, a series of 4 casual dinners with show business professionals. They will share with the apprentices tools of survival in the entertainment industry; how to get a job, how to get an agent, how to write a grant, how to network into the international scene of theatre arts.
In addition, apprentices will work on the many facets of mounting the touring productions by participating in crews alongside visiting artists and assisting in every step of the production, from lights and sets to rehearsal assistance and house management. The program will provide valuable hands-on experience into the inner workings of a professional theatre operation.
Not only will students have the opportunity to work on and attend all festival presentations, panel discussions, and performances, but the program will culminate in a performance by the Apprentices as part of the festival. The performance will allow the apprentices a chance to utilize their new theatrical skills and participate not only as students, but also as performers in the festival.
A fee of $1,500 includes tuition, tickets to Festival performances, plus accommodations and breakfast daily at Cal State University Channel Islands. ($1,200 for non-boarders.) Apprentices are required to provide their own lunch and dinner daily, as well as their own transportation (car, etc) as the festival itself takes place in the city of Calabasas (a 30 mile drive from CSUCI). Attendance for the full term will be required June 30 - July 27, 2010. There is a $35 nonrefundable application fee. Thanks to generous contributions, scholarships are available in limited number.
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