2020 Hangar Lab Company Applications Are Open!

The Hangar Theatre is accepting applications to the Lab Company through March 27, 2020.

Since 1989, the Hangar Theatre has been home to the Hangar Lab Company, a nationally recognized theatre training program. Designed for advanced college students and theatre artists transitioning into the professional world, the program offers an immersive hands-on experience in a repertory environment, supplemented by classes and workshops taught by career professionals.

Participants will spend June 1-August 1 at the Hangar Theatre and The Cherry Artspace in Ithaca, NY. With thoughtfully curated tracks for actors, choreographers, directors, and playwright/dramaturgs, Lab Company members will enhance their craft by engaging in a series of professional level rehearsal experiences, workshop explorations, classes, and performances-all taught, led, or directed by guest artists, Hangar staff, and a quartet of directing fellows selected by the prestigious Drama League Directors Project.

ACTORS

Lab Company Actors perform in our Wedge series, which features timely and inventive works in an intimate, transformational blackbox; our TYA KIDDSTUFF series; and our Late Night at the Hangar cabaret evenings. All actors will also audition for a select number of roles in the mainstage season. Each actor in the Lab Company is guaranteed 3 roles onstage during the summer. In addition, actors are assigned to studio projects throughout the program (i.e. Directors' projects, movement pieces choreographed by our Lab choreographers, or other opportunities). The Lab provides an extremely rigorous schedule for each actor to practice their craft in rehearsals, director-led projects, professional training workshops, mentor acting classes, and performances.

All Lab Company actors have the opportunity to earn EMC weeks for a portion of their work over the summer.

CHOREOGRAPHERS

The Lab Company choreographer(s) will serve as an apprentice on one of our Mainstage musicals, an assistant choreographer on our Next Generation musical (which will feature young performers from the local community), and as lead choreographer on a KIDDSTUFF production. The Choreographer will also create one studio project of their own choosing. In addition to classes with the full Lab Company, the choreographer participates (with the Lab directors) in separate classes specifically geared toward direction and choreography.

DIRECTORS

Lab Company Directors will serve as an assistant director on several projects, with a range of styles and intended audiences. Those include: one Mainstage show (directed by Hangar artistic staff or a visiting artist), one show in our experimental Wedge series (directed by a Hangar Drama League Directing Fellow), one show in our KIDDSTUFF series (directed by a Hangar Drama League Directing Fellow), and one new play workshop. Directors will also direct a one-act play of their choosing, and produce the sharing session with their cohort. In addition to classes with the full Lab Company, the directors participate (with the Lab choreographer(s)) in classes specifically geared toward direction and choreography. The directors are mentored by the Hangar artistic staff.

PLAYWRIGHTS AND DRAMATURGS

The Lab Company playwright/dramaturgs will explore the role of the playwright/dramaturg as a collaborative artist by developing their own project with a team of creative artists as well as serving as a dramaturgical voice in the rehearsal room for a variety of scripts. Lab Company playwright/dramaturgs will serve as dramaturgs on Mainstage, Lab Company, and Wedge productions. In addition, they will collaborate with the Hangar Drama League Directing Fellows and the Hangar's artistic staff on developing their own original plays, and meet regularly with a playwriting mentor to learn about process, craft and pursuing a career in playwriting.

Applications, Auditions, and Interviews

Applications accepted on a rolling basis from January 1, 2020-March 27, 2020.

For more information please call 607.273.8588, or visit www.hangartheatre.org