Summer Workshops

The deadline for our 2008 Summer Workshop has passed.

Apply for the 2009 Workshop by April 1st 2009.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe offers an eight week workshop to 20 talented people from around the world. Typically workshops run from the last week in June or the first week of July to the last week in August. You will study the Mime Troupe style, based in American Melodrama and Commedia Dell'Arte traditions, use trust-building and improvisation exercises to form ensembles, and finish by presenting plays in our style.

Apart from a materials fee of $25 per person ($26 if using PayPal) to cover the costs of giving this workshop,

no money changes hands. We want committed radical theater makers to spend the summer with us, not only learning our acting and writing style, but working with us in the trenches, setting up and striking our stage on the show days and postering and flyering in advance of shows. This is how it works: For every hour of class, there's an hour in the trenches. This is a sixteen-hour-per-week commitment and some of that time is bound to occur on weekends. It's important that this arrangement is clearly understood because the labor that you provide as a workshopper is very crucial to the success of our summer park tour. If anyone fails to keep up their end of the bargain they will be asked to leave the workshop.

Please fill out the application and return it as soon as possible -- April 1st is the deadline. Unfortunately we can only accommodate twenty people. You will be notified in early May. If you have questions, please read the FAQ's before contacting us.

Thank you for your interest in our workshop!

855 Treat Ave. - San Francisco, CA 94110 - 415-285-1717 - info@sfmt.org