Institute for Advanced Theatre Training

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The Institute for Advanced Theatre Training was founded in 1987 by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

The Institute has been resident for twenty-two years at Harvard University's Loeb Drama Center. It is considered a professional training program which lasts for two years (five semesters) including a three-month residency at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Moscow, Russia. The current program director is Scott Zigler.

The program accepts roughly 20 acting, dramaturgy, and voice students per year who learn both through classroom activities and numerous opportunities for stage-experience including Institute productions as well as direct involvement in American Repertory Theatre productions. Recent Institute productions have included Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day, Albert Innaurato's The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie and a stage adaptation of Donnie Darko. In addition to performances during the students' academic year, graduating second year students also put on a series of showcase performances in Cambridge, New York City, New York and Los Angeles to aid their transition into professional work.

In 2003, the Institute discontinued a well-respected directing program, begun by Robert Brustein in the 1980's. Alumni of this program include Kate Whoriskey, Jeff Zinn, and 2007 Ford Fellow Tina Landau. With two students per class, the curriculum emphasized hands-on directing experience, training with actors, and individual instruction.

[edit] Production History

[edit] 2007-08

• Gray City, written by Keith Huff, directed by Lindsay Allbaugh
• Expats, written by Heather Lynn MacDonald, directed by Jonathan Carr
• Trigger, written by Kyle Jarrow, directed by Marcus Stern
• The Lacy Project, written by Alena Smith, directed by Scott Zigler
• The Room and Celebration, written by Harold Pinter, directed by Roman Kozak

[edit] External links

• Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at the American Repertory Theatre
• Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at MySpace
• The graduating classes of
  • 2008 - class members:
    • Adam Kern
    • Megan Hill
  • 2007
  • 2006

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