Summer Opportunities
This list is by no means exhaustive. Please speak with department faculty and staff about these and other opportunities, and follow announcements on Reed Theatre Info.
Summer Study Away
*Summer study away classes can be taken for transfer credit at Reed-approved programs. They can also be taken for the experience, and not for credit. Non-credit-bearing study away programs can be supported by URC and CLBR grants (see below), both of which are competitive and require an application process. Credit-bearing options are not eligible for these grants.
- Bard Berlin Theater Intensive
- One Year Lease Study Abroad in Greece, Japan, and India
- British American Drama Academy Summer Acting in Oxford, UK
- Summer Shakespeare Intensive with Prague Shakespeare Company
- Summer Drama Studio Intensives at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU (New York)
- CUPA Summer Paris Program
- Summer Intensive at Pig Iron (Philadelphia)
Summer Internships and Apprenticeships
*Unpaid and underpaid internships can be supported by a CLBR Summer Internship Award or a URC Summer Opportunity Fellowship Award, both of which are competitive and require an application process.
- Bread and Puppet Apprenticeship (Glover, Vermont)
- Original Practice Shakespeare Apprenticeship (Portland)
- Seattle Children’s Theatre Summer Internship (Seattle)
- Broadway Rose Summer Internship (Portland)
- Portland Actors Conservatory Summer on Stage Internship (Portland)
- Williamstown Summer Intensive (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
- Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre Summer Internship (Wellfleet, Massachusetts)
- Stages Theatre Company (Hopkins, Minnesota)
- Wolf Trap Summer Internships and Apprenticeships (Vienna, Virginia)
- Steppenwolf (Chicago)
- Manhattan Theatre Club (New York)
- Florida Studio Theatre Summer Internships (Sarasota, Florida)
- Portland Stage Summer Education Internship (Portland, Maine)
- Goodman Theatre (Chicago)
- Summer Internships at Disney (variety of locations)
- Contemporary American Theater Festival (Shepherdstown, West Virginia)
- American Dance Festival (Durham, North Carolina)
- Public Theater (New York)
- Laika (Portland)
- Spoleto Festival (Charleston, South Carolina)
- Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Garrison, New York)
- Roundabout (New York)
- Summer Apprenticeships in Singing and Technical/Backstage work at Santa Fe Opera
- Broadway Rose (Portland)
- Alley Theatre (Houston)
- LaJolla Playhouse (LaJolla, California)
- Westport Country Playhouse (Westport, Connecticut)
Summer Work
- Bard Summerscape (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)
- Caldera Arts Camp (Sisters, Oregon)
- Northwest Children's Theatre and School (Portland, Oregon)
- Berkshire Summer Theatre Festival (Pittsfield, Massachusetts)
- Summer Jobs at Disney (variety of locations)
- Wolf Trap (Vienna, Virginia)
- Williamstown Summer Theatre Festival (Williamstown, Massachusetts)
- Blue Lake Arts Camp (Twin Lake, Michigan)
- Willowbrook Arts Camp (Tualatin, Oregon)
- Goodspeed Musicals (Chester, Connecticut)
Summer Funding Sources from within the College
You may apply for multiple awards, but may only accept one.
- Theatre Department Adler Fund to support summer projects
- Undergraduate Research Committee (URC) Summer Opportunity Fellowship Award
- URC Opportunity Grant to support non-credit-bearing summer study away
- URC Reed Arts Grant Experience Fellowship
- URC Ruby Lankford Grant for Faculty-Student Collaborative Research in the Humanities *note: this grant must be developed in collaboration with an available and interested faculty member.
- URC Mason Student Opportunity for Research in the Reed Canyon
- URC Evan Rose Fund for Research in Urban Design, Architecture, City Design, and/or Urban Planning
- Center for Life Beyond Reed (CLBR) Summer Internship Award to support summer internships with little to no pay
- CLBR Career Advancement Fund
- Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Scholarships
- President’s Summer Fellowship