The
Resident Ensemble Players

The REP consists of 10 Equity actors and an Equity Stage Manager who are contracted for a four year period of residency that commences with the beginning of each PTTP training cycle. The company is composed of some of America's most experienced and respected regional theatre actors and actresses as well as two members directly from the most recent PTTP graduating class.

During the first three semesters of the training cycle, while MFA actors rehearse and perform full-length classic plays in which all the leading and major supporting roles are played exclusively by MFA students, the REP acting company performs in a season and a half of productions cast exclusively from the professional company, directed and designed by PTTP faculty and some of America's leading professional directors and designers. During this three semester period, REP professionals also play minor and supernumerary roles in the MFA productions, thereby providing strong mentoring and support to the MFA actors in this crucial period of training.

This unique utilization of a resident professional company in conjunction with a conservatory is designed to:

• • Provide audiences with a steady diet of outstanding professional productions of a wide variety of classic, modern, and contemporary plays;
• • Provide exceptional mentoring and support to MFA actors from remarkably talented and trained professionals;
• • Provide MFA actors with Equity Membership Candidacy that enables them to compete favorably for professional roles after graduation;
• • Provide long-term employment and respectable compensation to outstanding professional stage actors, affording them both regular acting opportunities in outstanding professional productions and opportunities to meaningfully contribute to actors entering the profession.