About the Internship

The B Street Theatre Intern Company is an intensive 8-month program for actors and 10-month program for stage managers that immerses young theatre professionals in every aspect of professional theatre. Interns are recent college graduates seeking their firs post-college, professional theatre experience. The intern experience provides talented young people with their first real “break” in the world of professional performing arts.

Classwork 
Acting classes focus on monologues, scene work as well as instruction in improvisation for the actor. Two classes per week are scheduled with B Street Acting Company members.

The Monologue 
Each intern will receive instruction in the art of the monologue. Interns will learn a minimum of twenty-five monologues, performing each of them before a live audience on a weekly basis.

Performance 
Acting interns will have the opportunity to audition for approximately 15 professional productions. Interns appear regularly in all three series offered at the Theatre, which includes B Street Mainstage, B3 Series and Family Series productions. Interns have played prominent roles in recent productions of Doubt, Rabbit Hole, Make Someone Happy and Escanaba in Da Moonlight. Acting interns have also been featured in numerous Family Series productions. Interns also act in one of three School Tour productions throughout the year.

Directing Internship 
This internship allows for up to two directing interns to work as assistant directors as well as the opportunity to direct the intern showcase.

Technical Theatre Internship 
The Technical Theatre Internship program gives young designers and stage managers an opportunity to work and design at the professional level. Working under the tutelage of B Street Theatre’s Artistic Director, Associate Producer and Technical Director, interns will design sets, lights, costumes and sound for B Street productions, and receive full professional credit for each design. During their flexible, paid internships, they will design and build sets specifically tailored to each intern.

Housing 
The B Street Theatre provides subsidized housing. All intern housing units are within walking distance to the theatre. Theatre patrons have also donated several bicycles for the use of the intern company.

Showcase 
The entire intern company will participate in one or two showcases a year. These performances have played to full capacity houses for the past few years. Past performances have included The Laramie Project, Dearly Departed and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

Career Guidance Interns will be given guidance on such topics as headshots and resumes; approaching and dealing with agents, managers, and producers, and how to survive the business.

Equity Card 
Equity memberships will be offered upon completion of the eight-month acting internship.

In exchange for training and professional performing experience, interns provide the company with much needed assistance in the areas of administration as well as back and front of house operations. Interns are provided with a weekly stipend and housing.

How to apply: Auditions and interviews are held at the annual Southeastern Theatre Conference. Information atwww.setc.org Or you may email or mail a headshot, audition video, and resume or a design portfolio and resume to Producing Artistic Director Buck Busfield at 2711 B Street, Sacramento, CA 95816. No phone calls please.

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About B Street Theatre

What are the Top 10 Things I should know about the B Street Theatre?

1. Founded in 1986
2. 16 plays produced per year (7 B Street Mainstage, 4 Family Series, 4 B3 Series, 1 Special Engagement)
3. More than 900 performances per year (over 330 B Street, 330 Family Series performances, 200 B3 Series, 50 Special Engagement)
4. More than 10,000 Subscribers (7,311 B Street Mainstage and 2,174 Family Series, 551 B3….OK, OK….we actually have 10,036 subscribers if you want to be exact! This means 68% of available B Street seats are filled with subscribers; 71% for Family Series)
5. Music Circus, with a 2,000-seat venue, has 11,000 subscribers. Sacramento Theatre Company has 2,800.
6. Total attendance per year is over 110,000 (75,000 B Street, 25,000 Family Series and 11,000 B3)
7. Music Circus’ total attendance per year is 130,000. Sacramento Theatre Company’s is approximately 48,000.
8. We serve 200,000 kids PER YEAR in 12 counties through our long-standing outreach program, The B Street Theatre School Tour.
9. B Street Theatre is the second largest performing arts organization in Sacramento. This year’s budget is $2.2 million.
10. All B Street actors are working professionals. The company casts from a small pool of local professionals as well as from professional, union actors residing in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Each year, the Theatre spends over $900,000 on professional talent.

What are the specifics of the performance programs?

• B Street Theatre School Tour. It all started when we took the rich experience of live theatre into schools throughout Northern California. Our innovative approach has provided cultural enrichment to more than 2.5 million school children and youth in underserved communities throughout the 12 counties that surround Sacramento. In 1989 our B Street School Tour was named “Honorary Children’s Theatre of California” by California’s Secretary of State.
• B Street Theatre Mainstage. Not content to rest on our laurels as a groundbreaking children’s theatre company, we broadened our scope in 1991 by creating the B Street Theatre Mainstage with new plays for adults. Since then we have delivered thought-provoking productions to more than 600,000 people. Many plays produced each year are world, national, West Coast or regional premieres. Much honored locally and regionally, B Street Theatre has been named “Top performing small professional theatre” west of the Mississippi by the Actors Equity Association.
• B Street Family Series. In the spring of 2002 we expanded our children’s programming with the B Street Family Series, which offers performances of new works and classic children’s literature in a fixed theatre setting. Children and families enjoy these lively productions throughout the school year with performances for school field trips during the week and for the public on weekends. Curriculum materials are developed for each Family Series production, and teachers are encouraged to develop classroom lessons based on themes from each play.
• B3 Series. With B Street Theatre subscriptions SOLD OUT for another season, we realized that the demand for more theatre from the B Street model was too compelling to be ignored. We introduced our newest program in 2007 with the B3 Series, which shares space with the Family Series. Taking a more serious, dramatic focus with new contemporary plays for the more sophisticated theatergoer, B3 opened with the Pulitzer Prize winning drama Rabbit Hole.

What else does the theatre organization have to offer? 
In addition to our four performance programs, we continue to offer classes in technique and scene study to adults through our B Street Conservatory and to provide professional theatre experience through our B Street Internship program. Our summer camp program for kids is an important part of our outreach and education effort.

What is the future for B Street Theatre? 
The organization will survive in today’s competitive entertainment environment by consistently producing top-quality work and maintaining a healthy balance sheet. B Street Theatre will also educate our community, especially youth, who are the artists, technicians and leaders of the future, about the power of collaboration and the importance of creativity.

Will the B Street Theatre stage productions for the children who are patients at the new Sutter Women & Children’s Center?
Yes, the theatre already has a working relationship with Sutter Medical Center Sacramento to bring the theatre to children who are hospitalized. This relationship will continue once the new Women's & Children’s Center is built.

What is B Street Theatre’s financial position? 
The innovation and originality of our productions are backed by sound management. Operating in the black since 1997, our annual revenues now exceed $2.7 million—more than 75% from earned revenues with the remainder from philanthropic contributions and in-kind gifts.

Tell me more about the management of the theatre? 
Our nonprofit B Street organization is governed by a community Board of Directors. Producing Artistic Director Buck Busfield continues his 22 years of leadership with hands-on artistic management and extraordinary vision. Our founding director Timothy Busfield is now working as a producer and director in Los Angeles.

Why the new theatre? 
For more than 24 years it has been our dream to build a performing arts center that raises the quality of our facility to the quality of our productions. With a long history of steady growth, we are now poised for expansion with a new building to house our theatres, our educational programs and our staff. True to the B Street legacy, though, this isn’t going to be just any theatre. Our project represents a new, exciting and innovative public-private partnership model - with Sutter Medical Center providing the land and the City of Sacramento providing a community reinvestment grant for project development costs.

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Meet the 2012-2013 Professional Interns

Meg Tracy, Props Intern

Graduated from: Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Production Design

Favorite show I’ve been in: Macbeth

In ten years I plan to be: a Master Props Artisan 

If I had two super powers they would be: Moving through solid objects at will & super strength

Favorite Quote: "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."- Oscar Wilde

Kaitlin Brucker, Stage Management Intern

Graduated from: University of Memphis with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technical Production
Favorite show I’ve been in: W;t by Margaret Edson at University of Memphis and Red by John Logan at B Street Theatre
In ten years I plan to be doing: Stage management and/or company management for a national tour
If I had two super powers they would be: Telepathy and the ability to calm any tense environment
Favorite Quote: "Nothing is impossible, the world itself says, ‘I'm possible’". - Audrey Hepburn

Sarah Clancy, Acting Intern

Graduated from: Elon University with a BFA in Acting
Favorite show I’ve been in: Jake's Women with Elon University and Godspell with Open Fields
In ten years I plan to be doing: Plan your life and watch God laugh. He's already gotten a couple of good jokes out of me.
If I had two super powers they would be: 1.) snapping my fingers and being anywhere in the world and 2.) always knowing where my keys, wallet, phone and other things I spend way too much time "misplacing" are.
Favorite Quote: "It's all about perspective - for the lobsters aboard the Titanic, the iceberg was a small miracle."

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything."

Andy Rathburg, Acting Intern

Graduated from:  Principia College with a BA in Theater

Favorite show you have been in:  Avenue Q as Princeton

In ten years I plan to be doing:  well for myself.  Either living off a career in acting, outdoor education, baking, competitive eating.  Possibly a combination of those.

If I had two super powers they would be:  The ability to manipulate time, and to have a magical device that fits in my pocket that allows me to contact anyone in the world and get any information I need.

Favorite Quote:  "The duty of a patriot is to protect their country from its government."  -Thomas Paine

Claire Rigsby, Acting Intern

Graduated from: Emory University with a BA in Theater Studies and a BA in Psychology

Favorite show I’ve been in: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Logainne Shwartzandgrubenierre

In ten years I plan to be doing: Challenging work that still scares and excites me!

If I had two super powers they would be: Invisibility and the ability to add hours to the day (probably to sleep).

Favorite Quote: "The core of (wo)mans' spirit comes from new experiences." - Christopher McCandless

Sam Arnold, Acting Intern

Graduated from: Florida State University with a BFA in Acting

Favorite show I’ve been in: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

In ten years I plan to be doing: I plan to be acting as well as teaching at the University Level. 

If I had two super powers they would be: To shoot spaghetti from my fingertips and the ability to touch a book and instantly know everything inside

Favorite Quote: "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called 'the present.'"

Anna Rose MacArthur, Directing Intern

Graduated from: Birmingham-Southern College with a BA in Theatre Arts and English

Favorite show I’ve been in: assistant directing RENT at BSC

In ten years I plan to be doing: traveling the world collecting, sharing, and creating stories

If I had two super powers they would be: fluency in every language and instantaneous travel to my family

Favorite Quote: "Forget safety.

Live where you fear to live.

Destroy your reputation.

Be notorious."

- Rumi

Megan Jane West, Stage Management Intern

Graduated from: Harding University with a BA in Theatre Arts

Favorite show you have been in: The Effects of Gamma Rays on

Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

In ten years I plan to be doing: Production Stage Management at a

professional theatre and hold an MFA in Stage/Production Management

If I had two super powers they would be: Teleportation and mind reading

Perfect breakfast: anything after 10am! ... eggs, bacon, hash-browns,

biscuits and gravy

Favorite Quote: "It is a defect of God's humour that he directs our

hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."

- Lady Croom from Arcadia

Marking Time

The earth offered a November of leaves bursting into sunset and five days of rain that tore the leaves from the trees to rot ankle deep in the streets. But the street cleaners came and the clouds disappeared and leaves slipped from branch tips overnight, and all was as it was before— green sunlight days passing through 55 degree breezes to slip into 40 degree nights just as they did the day before and the day before that and every day since the day I skidded into Sacramento two months ago to begin a Professional Directing Internship with B Street Theatre.

Since arriving, the world has offered no indication that that the earth has tilted and traced the near completion of its revolve, so people mark time in a city that will not. Dates change on phones. Stores flip signs from open to closed. Decorations appear and disappear in lawns and store windows—Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas. Currently, icicles line roofs and snowflakes hang behind glass, creating a winter the city will never see. Instead, nature notes winter with citrus hanging fat and bright as summer in the trees.

To prevent these months in Sacramento from blurring into an arch of greens, yellows, and midnight blues, this blog will mark time here, narrating the B Street Theatre Internship for B Street patrons, prospective interns, and our beloveds with whom we wish to share this experience.

-Anna Rose

Midtown, Sacramento