SEEKING 2 INTERNS

Seeking Interns

Award winning NYC based theater company The Shalimar seeks 2 Productions Interns for fall/winter 2007 to work with Artistic Director Shoshona Currier. Please send resume and letter of interest to shoni@shalimarproductions.org.

Seeking two individuals who have an interest in theater administration, producing, or directing. This is a truly hands-on internship designed to give young theater artists the opportunity to learn about the day-to-day work of a small theater company. Past Shalimar interns have gone on to act, direct, and tour internationally with the company. Transportation stipend available.

Internship Requirements:
October 2007-January 2007

10 hours/wk of administrative work in Upper Manhattan office.
Duties Include: development research (grants, festivals, sponsorship,
etc...), organizational work (filing, copying, etc...), assisting in
seasonal mailings, helping to schedule readings, rehearsals,
performances, and workshops.

Minimum attendance of 3 rehearsals/wk.
Duties include: Assisting the director and stage manager in rehearsal, attending production meetings,assisting the dramaturge with research, taking rehearsal notes,
occasionally running rehearsals and/or warm-ups, actively
participating in the creation of the plays.

Participation in Shalimar Fundraisers
Duties include: Attending planning meetings, working on various fundraising committees, working at the events.

THE FALL SHOWS

Those Ones: A Modern Day Minstrel Show
November 29-December 16
at The Interart Annex
A controversial new take on our ever popular annual ten-minute play festival. It's "us vs. them" as writers confront stereotypes with ruthless candor and wit. Our modern interpretation of this old but not entirely forgotten form.
With new plays by Michael John Garces, Tommy Smith, Hilly Hicks Jr., Sharyn Rothstein, Josh Liveright and Nastaran Ahmadi.

Late and Live
November 29-December 16
at The Interart Annex
The Shalimar is thrilled to announce this brand spanking new late night series, with offerings from some of New York's most exciting theater artists. Schedule TBA.

MONDAY NEWS

Hot off the presses...

We have a new assistant producer coming on. His name is Matthew and we're really excited. It's always amazing to get more people involved. Last year we had Megan and she set a great precedent...we're so busy right now, with 3 productions in the next six months (dear lord), it's great to get new people in the room. People who aren't exhausted. Other new people we love are Brandon Bales (who was in the workshop of Aliens and is playing Ryan in the upcoming stirring production), Rachel Plotkin (playing Laura in stirring), and Shani Colleen Murfin who stage managed Aliens. NEW PEOPLE RULE.

The intern search rages on.

Hilly Hicks Jr. has signed on to write a play for The Minstrel Show. Now the writers involved are Tommy Smith, Michael John Garces, Sharyn Rothstein, Josh Liveright, and Hilly. We are almost ready to go!

Rebecca Brooksher, occasional Shalimar actress (Humidity of Fish reading, 2006) and writer (Preface, 2001), and longtime friend and supporter started previews for her Lincoln Center show this week. Joey and I went to the invited dress. I know better now than to write anything about a show before it officially opens, but I will say that we all support Boo and send her our love.

And Jesse Hooker (Hippolytus in LA FEMME) goes into previews for his off-Broadway show next week. I can't wait to see it. For...ahem...big reasons.

And in other celebrity news, Britney brings sexy back. It's like a car crash. Can't. Look. Away.

aging artfully...

My first intern just got his first intern. Does this mean I'm getting old?

Seeking 2 Productions Interns

NYC based theater company Shalimar Productions seeks 2 Productions Interns for 2007 season to work closely with Artistic Director Shoshona Currier. Please send resume and letter of interest to shoni@shalimarproductions.org.

Seeking an individual who has an interest in theater administration, producing, or directing. This is a truly hands-on internship designed to give young theater artists the opportunity to learn about the day-to-day work of a small theater company. Past Shalimar interns have gone on to act, direct, and tour internationally with the company.

Internship Requirements:
March 2007-July 2007

10 hours/wk of administrative work in Upper Manhattan office.
Duties Include: development research (grants, festivals, sponsorship,
etc...), organizational work (filing, copying, etc...), assisting in
seasonal mailings, helping to schedule readings, rehearsals,
performances, and workshops.

Minimum attendance of 3 rehearsals/wk.
Duties include: Assisting the director and stage manager in rehearsal, attending production meetings,assisting the dramaturge with research, taking rehearsal notes,
occasionally running rehearsals and/or warm-ups, actively
participating in the creation of the plays.

Participation in Shalimar Fundraisers
Duties include: Attending planning meetings, working on various fundraising committees, working at the events.

THE SHALIMAR SEASON

stirring
March 15-25
at The Interart Annex
Back by popular demand, stirring takes us inside the lives of seven lonely hipsters as they navigate their desperate fantasies and grim realities all from the safety of their laptops.
"Riveting...provocative, hip, and beautifully put together." - Three Weeks
"Highly stylish...perceptive about a generation." - The Guardian

The Minstrel Show
June dates TBA
at The Interart Annex
A controversial new take on our ever popular annual ten-minute play festival. It's "us vs. them" as writers confront stereotypes with ruthless candor and wit. Our modern interpretation of this old but not entirely forgotten form.
With new plays by Michael John Garces, Tommy Smith, Sharyn Rothstein, and Sibyl Kempson.

LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F!%# My Son
July dates TBA in New York
August dates TBA at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival
Take a ringside seat at this Phaedra adaptation. Sexual tension runs high, there's a boxing match to the death, the paparazzi are swarming, nobody is telling the truth. Using found text, live music, frenetic dance, and many wigs, experimental theater company Shalimar Productions entrenches themselves in America's celebrity obsession in the midst of a war. Flash photography is encouraged.

ALIENS
by Saviana Stanescu
Fall 2007/Winter 2008 dates TBA
ALIENS is a play about cross-cultural love and greencard-marriage that explores the immigrant experience in New York. Does a marriage with an American citizen solve every problem? Is a greencard a strong enough reason for a marriage? Based on true stories of immigration explored collaboratively by Shalimar Productions and fictionalized by a playwright who is trying to understand her own story, ALIENS is a story about the American dream and its everyday nightmare.