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• 6 students are enrolled in the Summer Intensive Training Program at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA
• Acting classes in Boston through CP casting and Boston Casting
• Improv (classes and performances) with ImprovBoston
• Extra work for the movie Bride Wars
• Company manager intern at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport CT
• Silly Silverstein Show has been accepted to FringeJR 08 (part of the Fringe Festival in New York City)
• Directing Tom Sawyer at Vermont Children's Theater in Lyndonville, VT
• Working at Kazarian/Spencer and Associates, Inc. in NYC - an agency dealing with actors in film, television and theater
• Internships with Second City in Chicago
• Administrative intern with the Adirondack Theatre Festival
• Performing with the College Light Opera in Falmouth, MA on Cape Cod - (Showboat, West Side Story, Iolanthe, Can-Can, The Gondoliers, Crazy for You, How to Succeed..., The Scarlet Pimpernel, and A Little Night Music)
• Internship with the North Shore Music Theatre in Massachusetts
• Internship with The Saratoga Shakespeare Company
• Psychology internship at Yale University
• Internship at the Bethesda Theater (Bethesda, MD)
• Wardrobe intern for Julius Caesar at Shakespeare on the Sound in Rowayton and Greenwich, CT
• Internship at the About Face Theater in Chicago
• Teaching dance and other classes at Camp Move It in Oakland, Maine (a new performing arts camp for young girls)
• Internship at Fox News in NYC
• Saratoga International Theatre Institute - Viewpoints and Suzuki Training
• Acting Instructor at Saratoga Summer Stages
• Summer Theater Technicians at Skidmore
• Playing Lucetta and a other characters in The People's Shakespeare Project's The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Lancaster, PA
• Theater Administration intern with The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival
• Intensive improvisation class at The People's Improve Theatre (PIT) in NYC
• Asst. Production Manager for the Chapin Rainbow Stage in Hecksher Park, Huntington, New York
• Asst. lighting designer at The Inter-Media Arts Center (IMAC) in Huntington, NY
• Stagehand Shadow Box Production Company
• Teaching acting and dance and assistant directing at Appel Farms Performing Arts Center and Summer Camp in NJ
• Assistant director for the Saratoga Summer Stages Theater Camp
• Directing and performing in Lysistrata, Saratoga Springs Congress Park
• Maine State Music Theater
• Intern with Sacramento Music Circus
• Acting Intensive with the Moscow Art Theatre School in Cambridge, MA
• Marketing department of the Huntington Theater, Boston
• House manager for "Assassins" at Company One, Boston

• Second City Comedy Studies - Chicago, IL
• The O'Neill Moscow Arts Theatre Semester - Russia
• The Skidmore Shakespeare Programme - London, UK
• Skidmore in Acalá Spain
• Advanced Studies in England - Bath ( and interning at the Theater Royal Bath)

• 5 graduates are starting a new theater company (No. 11) in New York City (this has become something of a tradition for our graduates - at least a dozen such companies have been developed in NYC, Boston and Chicago - No. 11 will be performing in the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington DC and NY International Fringe Festival
• Assistant Scenic Designer for Lake George Opera
• Stage Manager for Lake George Opera
• Attending the faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal for a Master's degree in Drama Therapy
• Full-time position with Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency in Boston
• Acting with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. (Performing in All's Well That Ends Well, Wild and Whirling Words, and the Bankside Preludes, understudying for Lady's Man, All's Well That Ends Well and Othello. Director/teaching artist in Shakespeare & Company's 20th Annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare
• Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta
• Actor's Theater of Louisville intern
• Verizon commercial
• A number of students are off to LA and NYC for professional acting auditions and other opportunities

• Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC (Casting)
• NTI Theatremakers
• Shakespeare & Co. (Lenon, MA) Summer Intensive
• Summer Play Festival intern, NYC
• Internship at Theater Communications Group (TCG) internship in NYC
• Attending TCG national conference in Minneapolis
• Working with the New York City Fringe Festival in August
• Skidmore Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Grant: developing and directing a new play (Shakespeare of An Age)
• Chorus of La Boheme (Lake George Opera Company)
• Working backstage at Saratoga Performing Arts Center
• Saratoga Shakespeare Company (Equity Membership Candidate Interns)
• Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre interns
• Berkshire Theatre Festival
• Saratoga International Theatre Institute
• Scenic artist and design assistant for The Lake George Opera Company
• Adirondack Theatre Festival Administrative Assistant
• Stella Adler Studio of Acting Summer Intensive Workshop, NYC
• Performing with The Peanut Butter Solutionists, a sketch comedy group in Dedham, MA
• Teaching theater workshops at Vermont Children's Theater in Lyndonville VT
• Directing a few of the 365 plays/365 days (a National program) in North Haven, Maine
• Intern for Shear Madness in Boston at the Charles Playhouse
• Intern for the Huntington Theater in Boston
• Box office and publicity at the New London Playhouse in New Hampshire
• Instructor in Linklater voice and Shakespeare at the St. Luke's School Actor Training Program in New Canaan, CT
• Apprenticing under the fight master at Shakespeare & Co.
• Intern with AndHow! Theatre Company (NYC)
• Assistant Choreographer forThe Summer Youth Theater Production at Curtain Call Theater in Stamford, CT
• Assistant Stage Manager for La Boheme at the Lake George Opera Company
• Assistant Production Manager at the Chapin Stage in Hecksher Park, Huntington, New York
• Directing production of Measure for Measure and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy at Cafe Lena in Saratoga
• Internship with the New York Theatre Experience
• Stage Managing an event for Epiphany Theatre, Saratoga Springs
• Working in Marketing & Promotions for Disney Theatrical Productions in NYC

• Second City Comedy Studies - Chicago, IL (3 students)
• The O'Neill Moscow Arts Theatre Semester - Russia (3 students)
• The Gaiety School of Acting (The Gaiety Theatre of Dublin, Ireland) (2 students)
• The Skidmore Shakespeare Programme - London, UK (3 students)
• The London Theatre Program (BADA) - London, UK (1 student)
• Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, MA) - full fall semester in new program (1 student)
• Skidmore in Acalá Spain (2 students)
• University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia (1 student)

• Artistic Director Intern, AndHow! Theatre, NYC)
• Studying Film in Paris (The French New Wave and Video Workshop)
• New School Film & Media Studies (NYC)
• Liaison for Nadia Szold, founder of Cinema Imperfecta, production assistant on a new independent film
• Teaching English in Japan
• Teaching English in China
• Actors' Theatre of Louisville internship for full-year
• Auditioning in NYC
• Starting a theatre company in NYC
• Touring Europe
• Chorus of La Boheme (Lake George Opera Company)
• Working backstage at SPAC
• Possible tours ( National Center for the Arts children theater tour) and Food Play educational nutrition tour
• Directing As You Like It with The Gurnet Theatre Project in Boston, MA
• Teaching secondary Social Studies in Charlotte, NC with Teach for America
• Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC)
• Performing in Building a House Out of Feathers at the Ontological Hysterical Theater in NYC
• Saratoga Arts Festival
• Training with Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC
• Performing Radio Play in the NYC Fringe Festival
• Auditioning in Seattle WA

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