The Hangar Theatre is currently celebrating its 38^th year as a leading regional theatre in New York. For the past 22 years, The Hangar Theatre has been home to the Lab Company, a nationally recognized theatre-training program for young professionals in acting, directing, design, and playwriting. The Lab Company is a training ground for emerging actors where the focus is on professional experience, gearing new actors up for a career in the theatre.  This year, we are pleased to announce new apprentice opportunities in the 2012 Hangar Theatre Lab Company! Actors in the newly renovated Lab Company will have opportunities to perform in a new play in our Wedge Space, work on a new play reading by a working, professional playwright, perform a role in our KIDDSTUFF season for young audiences, as well as a role in our Mainstage season.

 

The 2012 Hangar Theatre Mainstage Season includes:

 

Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig

Titanic by Peter Stone & Maury Yeston

Full Gallop by Mark Hampton & Mary Lousie Wilson

Next To Normal by Brian Yorkey & Tom Kitt

The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote

 

Additionally, Lab Actors will participate in Master Classes throughout the summer taught by top industry professionals including Andréa Burns (Broadway’s In The Heights),  as well as Associate Artistic Director Stephanie Yankwitt (Tara Rubin Casting, Telsey & Co.) and Artistic Director Peter Flynn.  Finally, the Hangar Theatre Lab Company works as an ensemble all summer, creating their own work under the direction of our Drama League Directing Fellows – a group of emerging professional directors recruited for professional development and leadership by Artistic Director Peter Flynn.

 

Distinct from other summer training programs, the 2012 Hangar Theatre Lab Company is a uniquely special opportunity for both actors who are finishing college and about to embark on their careers, as well as those looking to further develop their career. This year, our apprenticeship is a free tuition-based program.  Actors will get 9-12 EMC points for the summer toward future membership in Actors Equity Association.  The Hangar Theatre Lab Company is in residence in Ithaca all summer, from Mid-May through Mid-August.  The actors are required to pay for their housing, however our Company Management will help locate and arrange for centrally located housing in Ithaca.

 

Here’s how to apply: Send in an application, along with a Video Audition of 2 contrasting monologues as well as two songs: one from Pop-Rock genre, one from traditional musical theatre, ballads are fine (32 bars). Singing a cappella is accepted, but not preferred. Also please include a Personality Audition (take about 1 minute to tell us about yourself: where are you from, how did you hear about our program, what do you want to learn from our program, and what strengths do you have that will contribute to our program?) Please submit your Video Audition along with your application to casting@hangartheatre.org.  If we are interested we will invite you to come to NYC for a live call back the week of March 14^th. 

Get the Straight Talk About the Hangar Theatre:

The Hangar’s Mainstage season includes premieres of new plays, recent dramas, classic plays and musicals; each artistic team approaches the productions with fresh ideas.  Artists working on and off-Broadway proudly call the Hangar their country retreat, and Mainstage artists and Lab Company members share time and space together.  The Hangar prides itself on producing new work by emerging writers, and providing the space and resources for young artists to hone their craft alongside established professionals.

Get the Straight Talk About Ithaca, New York:

Ithaca, with the campuses of Ithaca College and Cornell University, boasts a very liberal, intellectual, and supportive theatre-going community off which the Hangar thrives. Seven state parks in the town of Ithaca give residents places to relax and swim in waterfalls.  Ithaca, in the heart of the Finger Lakes, features a pedestrian mall downtown with bookstores, cafes, and shops.  The highly aware, highly politically active community allows the Hangar to push the envelope when selecting our seasons.