Audition to Be a 2016 Junior Fellow at O'Neill Center's Cabaret & Performance Conference

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Cabaret & Performance Conference will hold two days of auditions for its 2016 Junior Fellows summer program. Auditions will be in held in Waterford, CT on Saturday, April 9, and in New York City on Sunday, April 10.

The Junior Fellows Program, led by Brad Simmons (Lysistrata Jones), offers selected students the opportunity for professional vocal instruction, movement, and hands-on artistic guidance in the art of performance. Understudying our rising professionals of Cabaret, these students gain valuable interaction with professional guest artists and world renowned faculty, and acquire skills needed to make Cabaret performance an important part of their creative lives. Notable Junior Fellows alumni include Braiden Sunshine, a semifinalist on NBC's The Voice in 2015.

Brad Simmons, Junior Cabaret Fellows Director, notes, "Now in the program's seventh season, the 2016 Junior Cabaret Fellows will study, interpret and perform the songbook of an artist from the New American Songbook. Past studies have included The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Nicks, and Dolly Parton, as well as a Glee-themed song revue and an age-appropriate Broadway revue. This year, the Junior Fellows will take on the lauded and legendary music of the Beach Boys! Consider spending ten life-changing days with us in Waterford, CT."

The program will run August 3-13, 2016 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Students must be between the age of 12-18. Tuition is $1,000, and includes all meals. Optionally, students with an accompanying parent or guardian, may choose to stay in O'Neill dormitory housing at a total cost of $700. Limited, need-based, scholarship aid is available.

Those interested in the Junior Cabaret Fellows Program can get more information online by visiting www.theoneill.org/summer-conferences/cabaret/submission-info. For additional questions, contact Jill Anderson, General Manager, at (860) 443-5378 ext. 290 or e-mail generalmanagement@theoneill.org.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964 in honor of Eugene O'Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and America's only playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the country's preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the American theater. The O'Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and 2,500 emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O'Neill have gone on to full production at other theaters around the world, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and major regional theaters.

O'Neill programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, National Puppetry Conference, the Cabaret & Performance Conference, and National Theater Institute - which conducts semester-long intensive theater training, and a six-week summer program, Theatermakers. In addition, the O'Neill owns and operates Monte Cristo Cottage as a museum open to the public. Childhood summer home of Eugene O'Neill, the Cottage is a National Historic Landmark. The O'Neill has received two Tony Awards - including the 2010 Regional Theatre Tony Award, the National Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award for Theatre Excellence, and the Arts and Business Council Encore Award.

For more information, visit the O'Neill website, www.theoneill.org.