Career Advising for Theatermakers
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These career advising office hours are an opportunity to ask any and all questions you have about next steps for launching your career in theater. Are you wondering about moving to NYC post-grad? Or maybe you want to know about how to prepare for auditions? Would you want to ask someone what the difference is between commercial and non-profit theater? Marti McIntosh, James Stanley, and Aislinn Brophy are here to answer your questions and strategize about your goals!
Sign up for a twenty minute slot to discuss your career with us. Feel free to bring any materials you’d like us to look at. If you have any questions about areas outside of our expertise, just let us know! We will help you find answers to those questions. Snacks will be provided.
ABOUT MARTI MCINTOSH
Marti McIntosh (she/her) has been working in professional and educational theatre for over twenty years. She spent over a decade working as an Equity Stage Manager on Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours, and at regional theatres including Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, Signature Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Kennedy Center, Center Theatre Group, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Vinyard Theatre, Daryl Roth Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. Marti also spent some time at ArtsEmerson working with the General Management team. Before moving to Harvard, she was in the Department of Theatre at Northeastern University first as the Production Manager and then Operations Manager for a collective nine years. She has a BFA in Stage Management as well as an MS in Arts Administration, both from Boston University.
ABOUT JAMES STANLEY
James Stanley is a multi-disciplinary theater artist, educator and artistic producer. He was a founder and co-artistic director of the now defunct National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) with whom he wrote, directed, designed, performed and produced from roughly 2000 to 2017. The NTUSA created immersive spectacles and material artifacts that mined the history of media and popular culture in America. Their works were presented at The Kitchen, PS122, The Chocolate Factory, The Public Theater/Under the Radar, Abrons Arts, the Walker Art Center (MN), ICA (Boston), Segerstrom Center (CA), among others, and were recognized with an OBIE, a Spalding Gray Award and two Henry Hewes Design Award Nominations. The NTUSA’s final work, an illustrated acting manual called A New Practical Guide to Rhetorical Gesture and Action, was published in 2017 by 53rd State Press. As an actor he originated roles in works by Young Jean Lee, Hal Hartley, Richard Maxwell, Thomas Bradshaw and Phil Soltanoff, among others. Since relocating to New England in 2015, Stanley has continued to create original work with longtime partner Jesse Hawley including House Warming (2017), The Olneyville Expo (with Darcie Dennigan, 2019), and their transmedia piece CVK: Extended Play (2023). Stanley studied Classical Acting at LAMDA, holds a PhD in Media, Culture and Communication (MCC) from NYU and has taught at the intersection of media, theater and performance at NYU, Harvard and MIT.
ABOUT AISLINN BROPHY
Aislinn Brophy (they/them) is an actor, writer and arts administrator who graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Theater, Dance & Media. They are proud to have been part of the very first TDM graduating class. Since graduating, they have gathered experience working to support arts organizations in various disciplines, including dance, music, opera and theater. They have worked to support organizations in the Greater Boston area such as the Dance Complex, City Strings, Brown Box Theatre Project, and the American Modern Opera Company.
As a performer, they have worked with companies such as ISLE Theater Company, Company One, Liars & Believers, Fresh Ink Theatre, Brown Box Theatre Project, Theatre Espresso, and Central Square Theater. Aislinn is also a cross-genre writer who works as both a playwright and an author. The world premiere of their play with music, Water, Water Everywhere, was produced by ISLE Theater Company. In 2022, they published their debut young adult novel How to Succeed in Witchcraft with Penguin Random House. How to Succeed in Witchcraft received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, was included on YALSA's 2024 Best Fiction for Young Adults list, and was chosen as a 2023 honoree for the American Library Association's Rise: A Feminist Book Project. Their second novel, Spells to Forget Us, was published in September 2024. It was nominated for an Ignyte Award for Outstanding Young Adult Novel, long-listed for a Massachusetts Book Award, and chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.