SUMMER WORKSHOP
FREE for work exchange

Apply for the 2012 Workshop NOW!
Application deadline is March 16th.

View this year's Workshop/Performance schedule.

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 end of June to mid/end of August. The Summer Workshop's main focus is on developing an original ensemble-created political play. The curriculum will also include Commedia dell'Arte, American Melodrama traditions, use trust-building and improvisation exercises to form ensembles, and finish by presenting a play(s) 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 $50 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 loose their deposit and be asked to leave the workshop.

Current & past interns and workshop participants are also eligible for consideration to become an SFMT Emerging Artist-in-Residence.

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.

- Completed Workshop Application

- A resume

- Head Shot (it can be a simply snapshot)

- One Letter of Recommendation (optional)

- $25.00 non refundable application fee ($26 if using PayPal)
Upon acceptance participants will be required to immediately pay a non-refundable $50 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 March 16, 2012.


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!

If you have any questions after reading this and our FAQ pages contact:
Karen Runk at coordinator@sfmt.org

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