Theatre Internships
We encourage every theatre major to undertake a professional internship at least once during their four-year undergraduate education. During the school year, students can undertake local internships requiring 10-20 hours of work per week, receiving from 3 to 6 credit hours. Additional internships for credit or non-credit are available during the summers. Butler Theatre internships fall into a multitude of categories:
- Short-term, semester-long, and summer internships with the Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre
- Summer internships with the Indianapolis Shakespeare Company, a professional, Equity theatre company which enjoys a special partnership with Butler Theatre
- Summer internships with theatre companies and arts organizations locally, across the nation, and abroad
- Students also utilize their Theatre training in internships at area museums including the Indiana History Center, Conner Prairie Interactive History Museum, The Children’s Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and many more
- Students also apply their Theatre training in internships at social service organizations like ArtMix
Internships are available in a wide variety of areas including the following,
- Costume/makeup
- Acting
- Administration
- Marketing/development
- Stage management
- Production assistant
- Sound
- Lighting
- Company management
- Casting
- Directing
A few of the places our students have successfully completed internships include:
- Actors Theatre of Louisville
- Arena Stage
- Arts for Learning
- Asante Children’s Theatre
- Barrington Stage Company
- Berkshire Theatre Group
- The Chicago Cultural Center
- The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
- Cincinnati Ballet
- Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
- Civic Theatre
- Contemporary American Theatre Festival
- Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
- European Live Art Network
- Florida Studio Theatre
- Goodman Theatre
- Heartland Film Festival – Truly Moving Pictures
- Hope Summer Repertory Theatre
- Illinois Shakespeare Festival
- Indiana Repertory Theatre
- Jacob’s Pillow
- La Jolla Playhouse
- Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
- Miramax
- The Nashville Shakespeare Festival
- National Youth Theatre of Wales
- New York Stage & Film
- Northern Sky Theatre
- O’Connor Casting Company
- Peninsula Players
- The Phoenix Theatre
- Raue Center for the Arts
- Road Pictures
- Roundabout Theatre
- Second City
- Shawnee Theatre
- Steppenwolf Theatre
- Theatre At The Center
- Utah Festival Opera
- Utah Shakespeare Festival
- Williamstown Theatre Festival