SUMMER WORKSHOP 2019

FREE for work exchange or
opt to pay for the workshop

Apply for the 2019 Workshop NOW!

Extended application deadline is open ended, we can accept a few more folks!
But, to ensure your place best to apply by June 21, 2019.

Post a flyer 1, flyer 2 on your drama callboard!
View the 2019 Workshop/Performance schedule.

Now, more than ever, we need art that speaks truth to power. So join the San Francisco Mime Troupe for a seven week summer workshop on creating social change through theatre. The Summer Workshop guides talented students from around the world by focusing on scenes and excerpts of past and present Troupe scripts. The curriculum, which includes Commedia dell'Arte, American Melodrama traditions, singing, improvisation and ensemble-building, teaches students how to produce a play in the Mime-Troupe style.

Z Smith former SFMT workshopper.

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.

APPLICATION AND FEES

Applicants must pay a $25 application fee. Upon acceptance into the Summer Workshop participants will be required to immediately pay a non-refundable $60 materials fee to cover workshop expenses AND a deposit of $50 which will be returned upon completion of the workshop. Apart from these fees the rest of the workshop is free of charge. No additional money changes hands. Instead we have set up a work exchange program.

WORK EXCHANGE

For every hour of class, there's an hour in the trenches. Therefor participating in the workshop is a sixteen-hour-per-week commitment and some of that time is bound to occur on weekends. If anyone fails to keep up their end of the bargain they will lose their deposit and be asked to leave the workshop.

OPT OUT OF WORK EXCHANGE

Participants may now opt out of the full work exchange and pay $950 for the workshop classes! This is a great option for people who have full time jobs and demanding work schedules. Paying participants will still be required to work at least one full park day approximately 8 hours long. A nonrefundable down payment of $100 will be due upon acceptance into the program and the remaining, nonrefundable, $850 will be due one week prior to the start of 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.

- Completed Workshop Application

- A resume

- Head Shot (it can be a simply snapshot)

- One Letter of Recommendation (optional, but suggested)

- $25.00 non refundable application fee ($26 if using PayPal)
Upon acceptance participants will be required to immediately pay a non-refundable $60 materials fee AND a deposit of $50 which will be returned upon completion of the workshop.

Please mail 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:
Marissa Ellison at coordinator@sfmt.org


More testimonials from former workshopers:
Theresa Burns SFMT workshop selfie.

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