PTTP

 

2007-2008 is the recruitment year
for the Professional Theatre Training Program.

The PTTP Class of 2007 graduated last May. The faculty will now begin traveling throughout the country auditioning and interviewing potential students in acting, stage management, and technical production for the new class, which begins in September 2008. Consequently, we will not be producing plays in 2007-2008. For periodic updates on our talented alumni and the recruitment tour, please join our E-mail Update List.

Below and to the left is information regarding the PTTP 2006-2007 Season which ended in May of 2007.  This information serves as an example of the training opportunities available in a typical season as well as the exciting offerings to the public by the PTTP.

 
In 2006-2007 we were proud to welcome some of America's most outstanding artists as part of our season, including:

  • Mark Lamos—Broadway’s Tony® nominated director and former Artistic Director of Hartford Stage
  • Ethan McSweeny—Broadway’s Tony® nominated director, Outer Critics Circle and Drama
    Desk award winning director
  • Joseph Hanreddy—Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Artistic Director
  • John Going—New York and regional director at such theatres as Seattle Repertory, Hartford
    Stage, Houston’s Alley Theatre, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse and South Coast Repertory among many others, and director of PTTP’s TRANSLATIONS in 2003
  • Adrian Hall—founding Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Theatre, former Artistic Director of the Dallas Theatre Center, one of the founders of the regional theatre movement, director for multiple Broadway, off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions, and director of PTTP’s ALL THE KING’S MEN in 2003
  • Walter Dallas—New York and regional theatre director and Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Freedom Theatre
  • Edward Stern—Producing Artistic Director for the Tony Award-winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
  • Paul Barnes—regional director at such theatres as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Producing Artistic Director of the Great Rivers Shakespeare Festival             
  • Drew Barr—regional director at such theatres as Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Portland Stage Company, among many others.

In addition, a number of outstanding guest scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers such as Liz Covey, Nick Embrey, Rebecca Frederick, Ted LeFevre, and Lee Savage among others, joined our resident PTTP designers Andrea Barrier, Bill Browning, Stefanie Hansen, Eileen Smithheimer, and Fritz Szabo to provide wonderful visual and aural inspiration to the year.

This season also brought the inauguration of the University of Delaware’s beautiful new Center for the Arts.  The CFA’s Thompson Theatre and Studio Theatre now allow the PTTP to expand our repertory of plays to further develop the training of the PTTP’s talented actors, stage managers, and technicians and to provide to our loyal audience further opportunities to enjoy the plays that comprise the best of our dramatic heritage.

PTTP Box Office: (302) 831-2204; pttp-boxoffice@udel.edu