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ESSENTIAL TRAINING.
FOR YOUR LIFETIME.

THEATERMAKERS

June 15 - July 28, 2008
June 14 - July 27, 2009

Theatermakers is a fully accredited six-week summer program that engages YOUR voice and vision in an extraordinary opportunity to experience the collaborative process of creating and developing new works for the stage. Theatermakers accepts a limited number of advanced students with multi-faceted interests in playwriting, directing and performance. Theatermakers is a program of the O'Neill's National Theater Institute, and is fully integrated into the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference, America's renowned research and development program for new works. Through the creation of your own work, ensemble work and by engaging its participants in readings, performances and special events, Theatermakers offers a unique opportunity for personal artistic growth and involvement with likeminded peers. With playwrights, directors and designers as professional mentors, YOU become part of the creative process at the heart of the O'Neill's mission.

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NATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE

FALL SEMESTER 2008: September 14 - December 15
SPRING SEMESTER 2009: January 25 - May 3
FALL SEMESTER 2009: September 6 - Dec. 13

Since its founding in 1970, the National Theater Institute (NTI) has sought to provide the ideal complement to the liberal arts education. Created as enrichment for college-age students, in the belief that study of theater learned from working professionals is a valid discipline for life, our mission is to expose YOU to intensive conservatory-based training, and to provide an "orientation" into the professional theater. After a semester at NTI, you will have a sense of the commitment necessary for a career in the theater, and a deeper knowledge of your capabilities, weaknesses, and strengths. NTI is an extraordinarily demanding and wide-ranging series of classes and workshops in Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Movement, Voice, and Costume and Scene Design. The working professionals who make up the faculty have all made a life in the theater. You will absorb information not only in the classroom or studio, but also in the dining room and on walks to the beach. You will be exposed to a variety of methods and styles, all with the unifying goal of offering a practical and professional approach to working in the theater. The 14-week National Theater Institute program is fully accredited through Connecticut College.

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"I don't remember sleeping, or ever wanting to, because there was simply too much to learn and I did not want to waste any time."
- Larry Nehring, Fall '87

"This is a place where artists can come together, free of outside influences, where serious conversations about development take place for the sake of the art itself."
- Jonathan Caren, Summer '05

MOSCOW ART THEATER SEMESTER

FALL SEMESTER 2008: September 14 - December 15
FALL SEMESTER 2009: September 13 - December 14

Since 1992, the National Theater Institute has offered YOU an opportunity to travel to Moscow to live for 13 weeks while attending a full spectrum of acting and movement classes at the Moscow Art Theater (MXAT). The MATS program is a truly unique opportunity for you to study at the source of most modern American acting, with master teachers of the MXAT School, the Vakhtangov School and the Russian Academy of Drama. The semester includes pracitcal study of Russian language, theater history and culture. It is helmed by Anatoly Smeliansky, Rector of the Moscow Art Theater Studio-School and Literary Director of the Moscow Art Theater. In addition to your training, you attend theater, ballet and symphony, and visit the great museums of Moscow. The Moscow Art Theater Semester is fully accredited through Connecticut College.

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"Without knowing a word of Russian... I took a leap of faith. We all spoke in a language that was more than words and more than sounds. I learned to exceed what I thought were my limitations."
- Michael Lepore, Spring '95

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