Summer Workshops

Apply for the 2010 Workshop by April 1st 2010.

The San Francisco Mime Troupe offers an eight to nine 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.

Applicants must pay a $25 application fee and upon acceptance into the Summer Workshop participants will be required to immediately pay a non-refundable $25 materials fee to cover workshop expenses and a deposit of $50 which will be returned upon completion of the workshop. No additional money changes hands. Instead we have set up a work exchange program.

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. 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.

If you have questions, please read the Summer Program FAQs and The SFMT Gerneral FAQs before contacting us.

TO APPLY, SUBMIT: Please note, applications missing any of the required documents will not be considered.

- The Workshop Application

- A resume

- Head Shot (it can be a simply snapshot)

- $25.00 non refundable application fee ($26 if using PayPal)
Upon acceptance participants will be required to immediately pay a non-refundable $25 materials fee and a deposit of $50 which will be returned upon completion of the workshop.

All completed applications must be received no later than April 1, 2010.


Please email all application materials to:
SF Mime Troupe
Attn: Workshop Coordinator
855 Treat Ave.
SF, CA 94110

Thank you for your interest in our workshop!

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