68 Applications Received for the 2014 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival

Theatre Ontario is pleased to announce that we received 68 applications for the 2014 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival.  Applications came in from Canadians in six provinces (Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia), the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Each season, the Shaw Festival hires two Intern Directors.  They look for promising professional directors at a point in their career where an extended residency with a company like the Shaw Festival will be of benefit to their professional development.  Applicants should have a good amount of professional experience but will not have had an opportunity to work on the scale of production that is characteristic of the Shaw Festival.

The choice of the two Intern Directors for 2014 is expected to be announced by the end of September.

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

Gray Powell, Wendy Thatcher, Wade Bogert-O'Brien, Sharry Flett,
Jeremy Carver-James, Kelly Wong, and Ben Sanders in Senora Carrar's Rifles
Directed by Michael Wheeler at the 2012 Neil Munro Intern Directors Project at the Shaw Festival.
Photo by Mark Callan.