Theater Apprentice Program

SummerTheatre at Brown is a unique community of artists made up of three distinct companies, each in its own facility, each engaged in the creation of new work for the theatre. The companies are the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, the pre-college TheatreBridge Company, and the undergraduate Apprentice Company.

The Apprentice program is designed for both visiting undergraduate students and Brown students. Post-graduate students may also apply.

The Apprentice Company provides a profound creative, academic, and practical theatre experience for college students from around the country and around the world. The six-week residency offers a unique professional summer apprenticeship for exceptional young theatre artists who want to pursue acting, directing, and writing.

The Apprentice Company is made up of individuals from diverse backgrounds and interests. It includes performers, directors, playwrights and design/technical students who are interested in performance. During the course of their six-week training, actors will function as directors, directors as designers, playwrights as actors, actors as playwrights. Students will be consistently challenged to work outside their comfort zones while developing skills in their area of primary interest.

Recent Accolades: According to American Theatre Magazine, Four of the top five most produced plays this season were written by Brown playwrights and two were originally created and produced on campus in our summer theatre, the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep:

boom, by Peter Nachtrieb '97 -  Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, summer of 2007.   
Speech & Debate, by Stephen Karam ’02 - Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, summer of 2007.   
Dead Man’s Cell Phone, by Sarah Ruhl ‘97, MFA’01,
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.  by Rachel Sheinkin ‘89