If yes, you will receive a $700 tuition credit. No additional application is needed to receive this work study position and spots are not limited! We encourage ALL interested Apprentices to participate! Please review thoroughly the website description of this workstudy.

Are you interested in requesting dormitory housing through Suffolk University? *

Yes, (additional housing costs apply, please see website for rate information)
No, I will secure my own housing and acknowledge I am responsible for my own transportation to program locations

Please note that all housing is handled through individual agreement with Suffolk University and is deployed on a first come, first served basis as space is available. CSC does not guarantee any housing or roommate assignments.

Is there anything Suffolk should know about your housing needs including any accessibility accommodation requests?

Do you plan to apply for any of the following? (Check all that apply)

Need-based financial Aid

All of the above opportunities require an additional application, which can be found on our website.

How did you hear about our program? *

Recommended by former Apprentice
Professor or acting coach
Internet search
KCACTF Region
Strawhats
URTAs
Boston Area Theatre Auditions (BATAs)
Other

Which alumni recommended our program?

Which KCACTF Region did you participate in?

If "other," please describe:

Are you applying to other acting/theater training summer programs? *

If yes, which? *

Are you considering work or other non-acting training opportunities this summer? *

If yes, what? *

Audition Requirements

Please check the FIRST location we saw an audition from you: *

ACTF
URTAs
Strawhats
Stagesource
None of the above, I will be sending or have already sent a video

Which ACTF Region?

Did you show a Shakespeare monologue already? *

Yes
No, I will submit a video to apprentice@commshakes.org show my Shakespeare monologue before the deadline

Please contact us if you have questions about what audition material we may still need to see from you.

Please list the Shakespeare monologue you performed *

Other Requirements

Please upload your current acting resume as a PDF: *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Please make sure to include your name in the file title.

Please upload a current photo as a JPG *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

This does NOT need to be a professional headshot, just a photo of you! Please make sure to include your name in the file title.

A separate recommendation (or nomination for Spark Scholars) is required as a part of your application. This online form can be found at the Apprentice Program page on our website. Please share the link with your intended recommender/nominator*. Please let us know their name here so we may keep an eye out for your recommendation: *

*We suggest this to be a teacher, director, coach or other theater professional who can speak to your work as an actor and theatrical collaborator.

Recommender's/Nominator's Email *

Personal Response Questions

In considering applicants for the Apprentice Program, our goal is to offer apprenticeships to actors that are seeking to develop specific skills or to sharpen their artistic perspectives with specific experiences. Please take a few minutes to review the information about the Apprentice Program and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company that's available on our website and social media. You may even reach out to Apprentice Program staff to get a clear picture of what the apprenticeship is all about. With that information in mind, please tell us how you hope or expect the CSC Apprentice Program to influence the following: (Please use no more than 250 words.)

a) Your current personal relationship to Shakespeare's works. *

Include a challenge you face in performing one of these plays. If you have not performed one of Shakespeare's plays yet (that's ok!), please reflect on why that might be and how that informs your relationship with these works.

b) The role you want to play in the world as an artist. *

Describe how you see this apprenticeship helping you to achieve that goal.

Please pick one of CSC's core artistic values - access (as the word is used on the CSC website), education and excellence - and tell us how this value resonates with the work you want to do as an artist. *

Is there anything else you think we should know about you?

Optional Demographic Questions

In an effort to make this program accessible to a diverse group of applicants, we like to collect demographical information from all of our applicants so we can learn more about who is applying for our program and find ways to be more inclusive in our recruitment/enrollment process. Answering questions in the section is completely optional and information provided in this section is not used in making acceptance decisions.

Could you share the lenses and/or identities that make your perspective as an artist unique? These could include categories such as: race, ethnicity, gender, ability/disability, neurodivergence, additional vocations, familial or personal roles, or any other identities that resonate for you. Please answer only as you are comfortable.

EXAMPLE: Michelle Obama's lenses might include being a cisgender black straight married woman who is a lawyer and a mother.

What is your household's income?