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Intern Ensemble
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater has offered a highly respected internship
program for over 30 years. Our program is unique in its scope and
intensity. For a full season, interns become a part of the Rep company.
Unlike many regional theaters in the U.S., the Rep supports a resident
acting
company. Through the course of the program, interns have the
opportunity to work closely with these performers on a variety
of productions and projects. The Rep maintains a strong relationship
with many playwrights
and directors. In the history of Milwaukee Rep, interns have
been a part of world premieres, international and regional collaborations,
and new works commissioned for our company.
Acting Internship
Acting interns work closely with Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Resident
Acting Company, participating in the Equity rehearsal process as
understudies and ensemble members in Rep productions. The Rep guarantees
understudy roles for all acting interns during their internship.
Understudies perform their roles for review for members of the company.
Click here to learn
more about applying for this program.
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N’Tasha Anders (Acting)
is a 2011 graduate of Cornish College of the Arts in
Seattle, Washington, where she received her BFA in
Theater. She is very blessed to have been in professional
productions with two different theater companies: Book-It Repertory
Theater and Seattle Public Theater. With this thrilling opportunity
to work in Milwaukee, she is eager to take the acting tools and
life experiences she has learned and apply them to
her new life and career. This will be her first time living more
than 2 hours away from her family, so adulthood has just begun
for this driven, 4’ 11” firecracker. Some of N’Tasha’s
favorite roles include: Little Bee in the adaptation
of the novel
Little Bee, Winnie Barnstairs in My Wonderful Day,
The Girl in Eclipsed and Little Becky Two Shoes in Urientown.
N’Tasha
hopes that her new family and friends at The Rep will
keep her warm during the Milwaukee winter season—she’s
got Texas blood in her and her little toes go numb
and turn blue very fast. |
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Joshua Baggett (Directing)
couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the 2011/2012
Artistic Intern Ensemble. He joins The Rep after just recently
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from
the University of Central Florida. While at UCF, Josh co-founded
Relevant Theatrics Theatre Company, a small theater project
in Orlando where he worked as Artistic Director and Co-Producer.
Selected directing credits include: Waiting For Godot,
Tick Tick Boom (Relevant Theatrics), Corpus Christi (Orlando Fringe
Festival), Auto Da Fe (Valencia State College), and Al
Lit Her Asian (Playwright’s Round Table). Thanks to friends
and family for their support. Visit www.joshuabaggett.com. |
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Eva Balistrieri (Acting)
is honored to be joining the 2011/2012 Artistic Intern
Ensemble after growing up in the Cratchit household
for several seasons in The Rep’s annual production of A
Christmas Carol. Other
Rep credits include: Betty Parris in The Crucible and
Kitty Bennet/Georgiana Darcy in Pride And Prejudice.
Eva spent two summers with the Great River Shakespeare
Festival in Minnesota where she was seen in The Tempest,
Love’s
Labour’s Lost and Pericles,
and understudied Bianca in The Taming Of The Shrew.
In spring of 2010, Eva studied abroad in Tuscany, Italy,
at the Accademia dell’arte where she received intensive
training in physical theatre – specifically commedia
dell’arte
and clowning. She graduated this past spring from the
University of Wisconsin-Parkside with a BA in Theatre
where her favorite roles were Ann Deever in All My Sons and the
melancholy Dane himself in Hamlet. Thank you to The
Rep for this opportunity, and to her family for their unwavering
love and support. |
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F. Tyler Burnet (Acting)
is a native of Washington State, and comes to Milwaukee
Rep from the MFA program at the University of Georgia.
Before UGA, F. Tyler lived and worked in Chicago, where
he taught at the world-famous Second City. He had several
other Chicago jobs, but none so glamorous. In his rare
free time, he loves road trips and roller-coasters.
His favorite roles to date are Dogberry in Much Ado About
Nothing,
Hamm in Endgame, Claudius in Hamlet and Edwin
in Our
Lady Of 121st Street.
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JC Clementz (Directing),
a native of Aurora, Illinois, is excited to join The Rep’s
2011/12 Artistic Intern Ensemble after working in the casting/literary
office at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, where he
also assistant directed Speaking In Tongues. As a stage manager,
he has traveled throughout Europe as the ASM for NY Harlem Productions’ international
tour of the Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess. Favorite directing
credits include: An Enemy Of The People, Rabbit Hole, Frozen
and A Man Of No Importance. His love of dark, gritty drama has
led his family to request that he direct something “a little
more uplifting” someday. JC received his MFA in Directing
from Western Illinois University. Go Cubs Go! |
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Cody Craven (Acting)
hails from the breezy ag-town of Davis, California. After tossing
his mortarboard in the air, he set off for Cal’s sunny
central coast to The Pacific Conservatory for the Performing
Arts, where he graduated this spring. Now he’s thrilled
to be battling the Milwaukee climate for his place in this
season’s Acting Internship. Past credits include Haispray (Link), Cabaret (Emcee), Company (Harry), Hair (Steve),
and the world premier of the Jose Cruz Gonzales play Invierno (AJ). Last April, Cody was lucky enough to work with The Rubicon
on the new musical Hello! My Baby with Georgia Stitt,
Cherie Steinkellner and Brian Macdonald. He would like to thank
his family, far and wide, for their support, and The Rep for
this incredible opportunity. |
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Nat French (Acting)
just received his BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist
University, where he concentrated in acting, playwriting and critical
studies. He has previously worked as an acting intern at Hope Summer
Repertory Theater. Some of his recent credits include: Our
Town, Chatroom, Room Service
and Charlotte’s Web. His full-length play, Meltdown,
also recently premiered as part of SMU’s New Visions, New
Voices festival. His academic interests include mathematics
and Russian/Soviet theater. Nat has also worked as a freelance
journalist, writing book reviews, features, and opinion columns
for The St. Petersburg Times. His other great passion is for baseball
and the Tampa Bay Rays. He grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
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Melissa Graves (Acting) is from
Columbus, Ohio, and is excited to be back in the Midwest. In
May, she completed her MFA in Acting with the University of Houston.
Some of her professional credits include The Shakespeare Theatre
Company, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, San
Francisco Studio Theatre, Maryland Shakespeare Festival, Southern
Colorado Repertory Theatre, Imagination Stage, Theater at Monmouth,
Wayside Theatre and The Tennessee Williams Festival. Melissa
taught theatre and dance with several Washington, DC, companies
and served as Education Director for Encore Stage & Studio
and Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre. Her teaching focus at
UH was in Voice and Speech. Melissa received a BA in Theatre
from Ohio University. She is spending the summer acting with
the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. |
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John Mark Jernigan (Acting) is so
incredibly excited and honored to be a part of this year’s
Acting Intern Ensemble at The Rep! Originally from Gainesville,
Florida, he received his BFA in Musical Theatre from Shorter
College in Rome, Georgia. Throughout his college career some
of his favorite roles were Cliff in Cabaret, Orin in Little
Shop Of Horrors, Nanki-Pooh in The Mikado and Hot
Mikado, Chris in
Beau Jest and “Man” in Somewhere America. He is forever
thankful and blessed by his beautiful family, all the way back
in Florida, and his best friend and fiancé Charlie. He
cannot wait to get to know The Rep! |
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Joseph Kemper (Acting) originally
hails from Huntington, West Virginia, and has an MFA in Acting
from the University of Central Florida. At UCF, he appeared as
Marvin in Falsettos, Frederick/Phillip in Noises
Off, Wang in The Good Woman Of Setzuan and Bartholo in The
Marriage Of Figaro.
After grad school, he joined the faculty at Flagler College in
St. Augustine, Florida, where he taught acting and directed Neil
Labute’s Fat Pig as part of Flagler’s 2009 mainstage
season. He recently completed a six-month national tour of Eureka! with Boston’s Chamber Repertory Theatre, and was last seen
in New York as Ryan in Gay Haiku (SingD Productions). Favorite
New York and regional credits include Wilson in Charles Mee’s
Fire Island (Sixth Borough Theatre Company), Oliver in As
You Like It, Lennox in Macbeth and Archibald Craven in The
Secret Garden (Orlando Shakespeare Theater), Bassanio in The
Merchant Of Venice (Atlantic Shakespeare Company), and Nick in Over
The River And Through The Woods (Limelight Theatre). He currently
serves as the Assistant Director of Acting at the Academy of
Music and Arts, where he recently completed his eighth summer
season, directing Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday. He currently
resides in New York City, and is thrilled to be joining The Rep
for the 2011/12 season! |
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Eric Lynch (Acting) is a native
of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the proud son of Johanna and Damon Lynch
III. He comes from a long line of Baptist ministers, which he
believes has stoked my passion for performance. This past spring,
he received this Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre Performance)
from Ohio University, and cites as the most important lesson
he learned from the amazing Ohio faculty (in particular Shelley
Delaney), is that being a good actor pales in comparison to being
a good citizen of the world. He hopes to carry this lesson with
him to Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and beyond. He is eager to
begin the next chapter of his life as an Acting Intern at The
Rep! |
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Alexander Pawlowski (Acting Apprentice)
returns to Milwaukee from Cedar City and a summer at the Utah Shakespeare
Festival, playing seven roles in three productions in the historic
Adams Memorial Theatre. Last season at The Rep, he was featured
as The Customs Officer in Cabaret and as Mr. Mudd in A
Christmas Carol, and also understudied three major roles, including Willy
Loman in Death Of A Salesman. He’s been acting for seventeen
years, studying at The University of Oregon and earning his MFA
from West Virginia University. Favorite roles include Macbeth,
Leontes, Falstaff and Claudius, as well as Lopakhin in The
Cherry Orchard, Richard in The Lion In Winter, Stanley in Run
For Your Wife and Danny in Danny And The Deep Blue Sea. He’s very
excited to be coming back to The Rep, and is looking forward to
another fantastic season. |
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Elizabeth Telford (Acting) is delighted
to be part of this season’s intern ensemble at The Rep! A
recent BFA Musical Theatre graduate of Shorter University in Rome,
Georgia, Elizabeth performed such roles as Juliet in Romeo
and Juliet, Tracy in The Philadelphia Story and Polly Peachum in The
Threepenny Opera, among others. Professionally, she has worked
at Stephen Foster Drama, and at the Prizery Theatre, where she
performed in Dames At Sea (Joan), The All Night Strut (Grace Farrell),
Side By Side By Sondheim and The Sound Of Music (Maria). She is
thrilled to join the team! |
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Jenna Vik (Acting)
is a native of Woodbury, Minnesota, and a 2010 graduate
of Central College in Pella, Iowa, where she studied Theatre, Spanish
and Secondary Education. Following graduation, Jenna held an Acting
Internship at Iowa Theatre Artists Company in Amana,
Iowa, where she performed in four original productions. Then, she
hopped across the big pond and spent six months touring Italy with
Theatrino, a children’s theatre company that teaches
English through drama. Some of her favorite recent roles
include May in The Last Train To Nibroc, Hope Cladwell
in Urinetown, Juliet in Romeo And Juliet, Sally
Brown in You’re
A Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Lydia Lansing in Shakespeare
In Hollywood. In addition to performing, Jenna loves traveling,
reading, learning foreign languages, drinking coffee and spending
time with her family and friends. She feels incredibly blessed
and excited to be part of the 2011/12 Artistic Intern Ensemble
at Milwaukee Rep. |
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