PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Local city and county partnership with African-American Shakespeare Company has created the opportunity to build a professional development training program for both emerging and experienced artists.

EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM

Our emerging artists programs works with performing artists of color to develop their skills in branding and promoting their work as artists; and/or comprehending the process of the audition workshop for artists of color and how to strengthen their own identity and voice without losing opportunities.

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                                                                                    MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

African-American Shakespeare is also engaged in training through the Theatre Bay Area’s Associate Artistic Director. A year-long fellowship has been established for an artists who wants to learn the field from the ground up. Devin Cunningham is the 2021-2022 Associate Artistic Director learning under L. Peter Callender. This program will help Devin Cunningham identify the different areas of a successful director from working with and hiring artists, to creating and building a budget.

MASTER WORKSHOP CLASS

As we are developing our national reach and scope with various artists in the field, Master classes and workshops will be offered for training actors of color regarding the nuance of performing Shakespeare; or meeting with Keith David and Dr. Monica White Ndnounou for a 2-hour talk-back session and interview.

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                                                                                        TRAINING PROGRAMS

Teaching Artists Development Program The Office of Economic and Workforce Development is supporting a training program for experienced artists to learn how to become teaching artists in the field. The artists will be paid while receiving training on the modules needed to become successful teaching artists. This 4-month program will provide classroom learning content and the ability for trainees to partner with experienced teaching artists in the field. After 2-months, participants will be partnered with schools and community groups to execute what they have learned in the program. At the end of their participation, a placement opportunity with other performing arts organizations will be established. This program specifically focus on training BiPOC artists

This program is designed to be simple and straightforward. It provides mutual benefits and access, requiring minimal staff time and seeks to maximize existing resources which allows for greater flexibility. There are no fees to participate just an opportunity to actively engage with our organization for your students and classroom.