Design & Directing Fellowships
In 2006, as a way to commit to emerging designers in the same way that we have always been committed to emerging actors, Chautauqua Theater Company instituted the Design Fellowship program as part of our Conservatory. The fellowships provide a very valuable bridge between training and career, offering the opportunities for graduate level design students to both hone their skills working side by side with experienced professionals and to work with future colleagues (young actors, directors, writers and fellow designers). In past seasons the positions were filled by graduate students from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama, University of Texas at Austin, among others. We accept one fellow each in the areas of scenery, costumes, and lighting. Fellows work as the resident assistants to visiting designers on all mainstage productions as well as designing the new play workshops and other special events.
Like the conservatory actors, the design fellows receive scholarships from the Chautauqua Institution which cover the cost of housing (double occupancy residence hall) and board. Unlike the conservatory actors, the design fellows will also receive a stipend in recognition of their role as working members of our production team. The term of engagement is for nine weeks, with a staggered start by department.
Interested graduate design students should submit a resume with reference contact information, and a brief cover letter via email to Fellows@CTCompany.org. We will arrange for a brief interview as appropriate.
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Drew Foster Drew is currently a student entering his fourth year at The Juilliard School. Favorite Juilliard credits: Iago in Othello and Vanya in Uncle Vanya. Favorite Regional: Bach at Leipzig, All’s Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Diary of Anne Frank, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Asolo Repertory Theatre; Rabbit Hole, The Goat, Florida Studio Theatre; New York: The Silent Woman opposite F. Murray Abraham at Red Bull Theater. |
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Crystal Gomes Crystal is currently pursuing her MFA in Costume Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she designed for many companies in the Boston area including New Repertory Theatre, The Nora Theatre Company, Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company and the Boston Children’s Museum. Crystal holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Boston College. |
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Caite Hevner Caite is currently pursuing her MFA in scenic design at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Recent design credits include: Lady Windermere’s Fan, Tisch; The Hairy Ape, Columbia University; In Bocca Alla Lupa, Access Theater, NYC. Caite is a graduate of Florida State University and the Yale School of Drama. |
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Annie Wiegand Annie is an MFA candidate in lighting design at Boston University. She received her BA in Theatre with a concentration in design and technology from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Recent credits include: Are Your Ears Blind?, Gallaudet University; Trumpery, BU Mainstage; Lizzie Stranton, Wimberly Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts; One Flea Spare, BU Studio 210; and Comp, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Previously, she was a lighting design fellow with the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. She designed Lulu, A Rat’s Mass, The Possibilities and Leonce and Lena, Wedge Theatre; Reeling and Charlotte’s Web, Niederkorn Stage. Upcoming projects: Spoon River Anthology and the World Deaf Cinema Festival, Gallaudet University; Othello, Actors’ Shakespeare Project. |
