Category: Apprentices
Connecting Research and Practice: Arden Apprentice Attends ASTR Conference in Seattle
By Tara Demmy, Arden Professional Apprentice The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) is a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theatre and performance, both historical and contemporary….
Read MoreArden Professional Apprentices—On the Fringe
By Bobby Bangert, advice Development Assistant and APA Class 16 At the Arden, nothing heralds the beginning of another season like the arrival of the new class of Arden Professional…
Read MoreFalling Into Place
Arden Professional Apprentice Class 17 completes our 2009-2010 season with our APA Showcase Falling Into Place, featuring five short plays by Christopher Durang, David Ives, >decease Shel Silverstein, and Sean…
Read MoreFinishing the Hat
by Mark Kennedy, Arden Professional Apprentices Every day, except for Mondays, I hum the song “Finishing the Hat” from Sunday in the Park with George in the Arcadia green room…
Read MoreSeurat Painting Comes to Life
For First Friday on June 4, >physician we staged a living version of Georges Seurat’s painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte right on Filbert Street! A…
Read MoreA Backwards Cabaret: The Songs You’ll Never Sing, The Parts You’ll Never Play
By Meredith Sonnen, Arden Professional Apprentice The first play I ever remember seeing was The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan. I proceeded to name our next dog Katisha after a…
Read MoreDrinking Tea at the Precipice
By Mark Kennedy, Arden Professional Apprentice Whit MacLaughlin, view director of If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, used a metaphor I loved one day in rehearsal as he was…
Read MoreTragic Humor
By Brittany Howard, rx Arden Professional Apprentice Romeo and Juliet is nearing its end (the real end, not the kind where you take a sleeping potion so that people think…
Read MoreOf Teachers and Tragedies
By Brittany Howard, Arden Professional Apprentice I come from a family of teachers. Literally, sisters, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents—they are all teachers. So, growing up, I was determined that I…
Read MoreLike Father Like Son
by Mark Kennedy, Arden Professional Apprentice I always think about my father when I work on Blue Door. Whether it’s ironing Kes Khemnu’s stubbornly wrinkled pants, >buy or focusing the…
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