July 2 through August 16, 2025
Intern Program
Door Shakespeare, in Door County, Wisconsin, is accepting submissions for our 2025 Intern Cohort.
The Season
Door Shakespeare presents William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, adapted for the stage by Gale Childs Daly. The two shows will run in alternating repertory from July 2, 2025 to August 16, 2025. Shows are Monday through Saturday: weekdays at 7:30 and Saturdays at 5:00.
The 2025 Intern Cohort seeks Production/Acting Candidates
- Primary responsibilities and opportunities include onstage performance in at least one mainstage title (outdoor), understudying a second mainstage title (outdoor), assisting in production tasks during seasonal and daily set-up and tear-down (indoor and outdoor).
- While Door Shakespeare seeks to specialize the experience of each cohort member, there are potential overlaps in responsibilities and learning experiences between tracks. We welcome hybrid skill sets: acting candidates with technical theater skills or box office skills, for example, are highly encouraged to apply.
Schedule
Prep week begins May 26. First rehearsal is June 2. First preview is July 2. We open July 4. We close on August 16. Strike is August 17. Interns are an essential piece of Door Shakespeare’s work, so candidate availability across the season is essential.
Compensation and Benefits
- A weekly stipend of $300.
- Company provided housing.
- Assigned mentorship relationships within and beyond the company.
- Additional enrichment and training opportunities to help you meet your individual goals.
The Workplace
- Door Shakespeare performs outdoors on a wooden stage abutting Lake Michigan in Björklunden, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. The company is invested in safety and accessibility for all performers and, with that, wants everyone to know that workdays will involve outdoor rehearsal and performance in fluctuating temperature and weather conditions.
- While Door County is a tourist destination known for its natural beauty, it does not have public transportation. During the 2025 season, interns need to arrange their own transportation to, and within, Door County.
- Door Shakespeare is a COVID-19 vaccinated workplace.
Applying
If you are available for these dates, interested in the work, have your own transportation, and the funds fit into your budget, then we would love to hear from you.
Production/Acting internship candidates
- Send a headshot, resume, and video submission by 5 p.m., on February 6, 2025, to casting@doorshakespeare.com.
- Please submit your audition via unlisted (private) video link (YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, Google Drive) as a link to casting@doorshakespeare.com.
- In that video, please slate with your name, current age, academic institution, and the names of your two contrasting pieces and song. Scroll down for details on song and monologue choice.
- Reels are happily accepted. Individual pieces may be edited together or submitted separately. If submitted separately, please slate at the top of each submission, and include all links in one email.
- If this technology is an obstacle to submission, please contact Door Shakespeare. We are invested in helping you to show your work.
Monologue Submissions
- Please share a Shakespeare monologue and a contrasting classical or heightened language contemporary piece (ie. Sarah Ruhl, Benjamin Benne, Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, August Wilson, Brian Friel, Shaw, Lillian Hellman etc.). Dialects are not necessary for initial submissions, but may be asked for in callbacks.
- We are particularly interested in strong characters and active choices based on truth, with a clarity of language and text. We are looking for range and vocal technique.
- Monologues do not have to be long: approximately one minute each would suffice. Please do not go over two minutes per monologue.
Song Submissions
- This season will include onstage acoustic music and songs performed by actors.
- Interested performers should submit 16–32 bars of folk or traditional music from any cultural tradition, although a musical theater piece is also welcome.
- If you are able to self-accompany on a portable instrument, please do so.
- Multi-instrumentalists are encouraged to submit videos showing aptitude with 16–32 bars played on as many instruments as they competently play. We welcome the submission of music reels.
- Supplemental materials like singing and instrumental talents will not be held against anyone.
Door Shakespeare will view every submission. You will be contacted if we believe that your work may be a fit for the company this summer. Submissions will be kept on file for future opportunities unless you wish not to be considered for future productions.
Thank you for your interest in Door Shakespeare!