LEGACY Program for Youth
Backstage Tours
ATP gives groups of students of any age an information-packed, interactive guided tour of ATP's state of the art theatre facility, including the fly gallery, the lighting grid, the under-stage, the dressing rooms and of course the unique Martha Cohen Theatre itself.
For more information please contact the LEGACY program at legacy@ATPlive.com
Job Shadowing
ATP’s Job Shadowing program is a unique and productive way for students to spend time in the life of theatre. ATP is happy to create a job shadowing program which fits your schedule, whether you are available for a day, week or month. You will be offered multiple opportunities to shadow an ATP professional offering a wide variety of experience and tools. Areas available to shadow are:
- Artistic Direction
- Play Development
- Directing
- Design
- Stage Management
- Acting
- Production Management
- Technical Direction
- Business Management/ Fundraising
Recommended for individuals in Junior or Senior High School.
ATP’s LEGACY program also offers Job Shadowing for Teachers.
For more information please contact the LEGACY program at legacy@ATPlive.com
Internship
The University of Calgary Drama Department offers this program in cooperation with several professional theatre companies, of which ATP is proud to be one of. Under the supervision of a faculty member, one qualified fourth-year Drama student spends a full season at ATP gaining varied practical fieldwork experience.
For more information please contact the University of Calgary Drama Department.
Junior Apprenticeship
 The Junior Apprentice Program provides a 35 week long opportunity for graduating students to spend their first year out of high school learning by doing. The program combines training in the field with supplemental instruction by professionals.
- Learn everything you ever wanted to learn about theatre but were afraid to ask.
- Free hands-on training in the theatre arts!
What is an apprentice?
An apprentice is a person who is learning a trade by being employed in it for an agreed period at low wages (The Concise Oxford English Dictionary).
Positions are available for graduating Grade 12 students for a 8-9 month, full-time Junior Apprenticeship with Alberta Theatre Projects.
Concentrations are in the following areas:
- Technical/ production
- Stage Management
- Resource Development/ Fundraising
- Marketing and Communications
- Play Development
"This program gave me an education in theatre and a set of new skills but most importantly, it gave me clarity in what I want to do with my life in the coming years. A clarity that stems from the mentorship and support of the folks at ATP. I now have the confidence to pursue what I am passionate about. It is true I have always loved theatre but it is also true that I have always loved a great deal of other things too. What the people atATP taught me is that I can spend four years at university, studying everything that interests me from sociology to linguistics, and come back to this community when I am ready because this is a community always open to nice, dedicated individuals." - Ian Wylie, 07/08 Junior Apprentice
"Discovering the Junior Apprentice program at Alberta Theatre Projects was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me to help me make the choice of what kind of post secondary education to pursue. I had some interest in scenic carpentry and props building prior to starting at ATP, but the week I got to spend in the shop with the company’s Scenic Carpenter and the Head of Props really put a perspective on just how much interest and passion I have for that particular area. Without this apprenticeship I do not think I would have got the hands-on experience necessary to feed that passion"
- Ashlee Matkin, 07/08 Junior Apprentice
For more information please contact Dianne Goodman at 294-7433 ext. 1123 or dgoodman@ATPlive.com
The Junior Apprentice Program is made possible through the generous support of the following corporations and
foundations:
Student Writers' Group
From October through March, a dozen high school students are selected to form the Student Writers Group. They meet for two hours every Saturday to learn the craft of playwriting under the tutelage of Ethan Cole, a
playwright/ librettist/ composer and Eugene Stickland, formerly ATP's Playwright In Residence. The course culminates in Fresh Prints, a staged reading of the student plays during the Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays. The students workshop their original scripts with professional actors who then read each student writer's script for friends and family.
Recommended for High School students. The cost is $100, including Fresh Prints.
For more information or to register please contact Ethan Cole at 891-4041 or ethancole@shaw.ca.
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