Theatre Ontario is pleased to announce that we received 74 applications for the 2011 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival. Applications came in from Canadians in six provinces and the United States.
"The seventy-four applications this year were the most received in at least eight years," said Tim Chapman, Professional Theatre Coordinator, "so the competition will be even keener than usual for this extremely valuable training project."
Each year, the Shaw Festival hires two Intern Directors for a period of about six months. They look for promising professional directors near the beginning of their careers. The Intern Directors work under the mentorship of the Directors of the Academy, which is the Shaw Festival's professional development and public education wing. Each intern is assigned to two or three successive shows as an Assistant Director. For the most part, being an Assistant Director involves observing the senior directors at work in rehearsal, doing research as required, acting as a sounding board as required. (Getting them coffee is not required.) The Interns also assist the company in educating audiences about theatre in general and the Shaw's productions and programmes in particular.
Since its inception in 1988, the project has been sponsored annually by Sun Life Financial and Theatre Ontario. Read more about the Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival on the Theatre Ontario website
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