Tony Hagopian understands how important the University/Resident Theatre Association is: He went through it and took part in its unified auditions before entering Temple University. He’s now the director of communications and contract services, helping other students get the training they need to enter the theater arts.
What’s URTA’s purpose? Our mission is to support the American theater by maintaining the highest possible standards in theater in training. Our most well-known program is the National Unified Auditions and Interviews, which combines MFA auditions. They happen every January and February in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. We have 39 member universities recruiting MFA candidates in acting, design, theater management, stage management, and so on. Candidates can come to a single location instead of having to set up 15 individual auditions. Some of our other major services include a contract management program. It’s used a lot by university theater programs that want to bring in a professional union guest artist to perform with their students or teach a class. There are a lot of impediments for universities to engage those services, but for the students, having an artist like that work with
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