Dogteam Theatre Project
Auditions and interviews for Summer 2025
The Dogteam Theatre Project will be holding auditions and interviews for its upcoming building summer on Thursday 2/20, Friday 2/21, and Thursday 2/27
The Dogteam Theatre Project, now in its third season, is a professional theatre company structured around alternating building and producing summers, with the former dedicated to script development and training and the latter to rehearsing and producing 2 plays in rep in NYC. For this Building summer, we will welcome 12-16 students to join professional theatre makers for a two-week residency dedicated to script development and advanced training for actors, directors, designers, technicians, playwrights, and stage managers. The building summer culminates in public showings that will include design presentations and readings from new scripts and works in translation being considered for future professional productions.
Project dates: June 9-22, 2025, Middlebury, VT.
Housing, meals & a stipend provided for a cohort of 16 Midd students.
Auditions/Interviews Open to all Middlebury students
Thursday, February 20th:
Info session about Dogteam 4:30pm MAC 232
Auditions/interviews 4:45-6:30pm
Friday, February 21st:
Auditions/interviews 5:15-6:15pm
Info session about Dogteam 6:15pm MAC 232
Thursday, February 27th:
Auditions/interviews 4:30-6:30pm
Actors, directors and playwrights: Auditions/interviews will be held in MAC 232. Please sign up here.
Designers, stage managers, and technicians: interviews will be held in MAC 340. Please sign up here.
Video auditions and/or remote interviews can be arranged for interested students who are not currently on campus or unable to attend at those times.
What to prepare:
All interested students should bring a resume to the auditions/interviews.
- Actors, please prepare a 1-minute monologue.
- Playwrights need to have taken Playwriting 1 and/or bring in a short writing sample.
- Directors will have ideally taken Directing 1 or have directed a project, but can also use this opportunity to learn more about directing.
- Designer/technicians and stage managers should bring in a portfolio if they have one.
As of now we are planning on anchoring our work on the following scripts:
Voices, by Gerard Watkins, a deep dive into the world of voice hearers from one of France’s foremost contemporary playwrights. Gerard will be workshopping his translation into English and leading a workshop on collaborative creation.
The Journey of the Saint by beloved Peruvian playwright César De María, a rollicking adventure of theatre people traversing the Atlantic and through the southern cone of Latin America in 1796 to bring a holy relic to revolutionaries! Olga Sanchez Saltveit will be workshopping the play with translator Rose Cano.
Six Inches Above the Knee, by Sally Seitz ‘17, directed by Amanda Whitely ‘19. A dark comedy set in the fictional Harpeth Valley High School, an elite preparatory school for girls. Four friends seek revenge on the beloved high school swim coach, after he assaults one of their classmates. Revenge is best served in a kilt.
We hope to see you there.
For more info on Dogteam, visit our (soon to be updated) site:https://www.dogteam.org/
If you have questions, please reach out to Alex, Olga, or Mark, or feel free to contact one of the recent Dogteam alums below.
Alex Draper (adraper@middlebury.edu)
Olga Sanchez Saltveit (osanchezsaltveit@middlebury.edu)
Mark Evancho (evancho@middlebury.edu),
Hannah Alberti (halberti@middlebury.edu)
Alex Garcia (alejandrag@middlebury.edu)
Evan Berger (eeberger@middlebury.edu)
What we do
The Dogteam Theatre Project provides transformative experiences for emerging and professional artists, creating meaningful theatrical engagements for diverse audiences. Among its programs, the Dogteam Theatre Project provides training opportunities for emerging theatre artists in all realms of the field, including but not limited to acting, directing, playwriting, and design disciplines. The Dogteam Theatre Project produces theatrical works, including works in translation, reflecting the stories of our more connected world.
Among our programs, we provide training opportunities for emerging theatre artists in all realms of the field:
- Acting
- Directing
- Playwriting
- Design & Technology
Structure
We operate on a calendar of alternating Building Summers and Producing Summers.
Building Summers
Building summers are dedicated to pre-professional training for student actors, designers, producers, playwrights, stage managers, technicians, and directors; script development workshops for plays in translation in which the students would be joined by 3-5 professional actors; and outreach programs folding in high school students from Middlebury Union High School.
Producing Summers
Producing summers begin with three weeks of rehearsals in Middlebury followed by a 5-week run, during which the company presents two productions in rep at Atlantic Stage 2 in NYC.
The first Building Summer is June 13-24, 2023.
The Team
Alex Draper
Co-Artistic and Producing Director
Alex Draper is a founding member of The Dogteam Theatre Project and Co-Artistic Director. As a professional stage, film and television actor, his twenty-five-year career includes performing with the Mabou Mines in Paris, France, filming the Bollywood extravaganza Kalapani in the Andeman Islands, and appearing in the New York premieres of Dare Clubb’s Obie Award-winning Oedipus, starring Billy Crudup and Frances McDormand, Erin Courtnry’s A Map of Virtue, the Presnyakov Brothers’ Terrorism, Neil Simon’s Rose’s Dilemma and Phillip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney. Regional work includes productions at Arena Stage, Yale Rep, the McCarter, Williamstown, the Westport Playhouse, the Huntington, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Film and television credits include: No Pay, Nudity (upcoming),Yellowbrickroad (Best Feature, New York Horror Film Festival), Joshua, Hysterical Blindness, Simply Irresistible, The Photographer, Hard Shell, John Adams, The Good Wife, Sex and the City, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order: CI, Suddenly Susan, Ed, and Dellaventura. He received his BA from Middlebury, and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, where he was the recipient of the Oliver Thorndike Acting Award.
Olga Sanchez Saltveit
Co-Artistic and Producing Director
Olga Sanchez Saltveit is Artistic Director Emerita for Milagro, the Pacific Northwest’s premier Latinx arts & culture organization, following her service as the company’s Artistic Director from 2003-2015. She is an actor, director, devisor, and arts activist, whose work has been seen throughout the US and in Peru, Venezuela, Honduras, and Cuba. Olga served as co-artistic director of the People’s Playhouse in New York City, artistic director of Seattle Teatro Latino, and co-founder of La Casa de Artes, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the beauty of Latinx arts and cultural heritage. Her ¡O ROMEO! received a Portland Drama Critics’ DRAMMY award for Outstanding Achievement in Devised Work, and her Como Agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) was nominated for several BroadwayWorld awards, including Best Direction. Olga served on the Executive Committee and the Diversity Task Force on the TCG (Theatre Communications Group) board of directors. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Latinx Theatre Commons, in partnership with HowlRound Theatre Commons, Emerson College. Associations and affiliations include: Actors Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. B.A., Theatre, Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.; M.A., Human / Bicultural Development, Pacific Oaks College; Ph.D., Theatre Arts, University of Oregon. Research interests include BIPOC theatre and activism, Latinx feminisms, and the commons.
Todd Canedy
Production Designer, Theatre - Company and Budget Manager, Dogteam Theatre
Mark Evancho
Resident Designer
Mark Evancho previously taught at Drew University, NJ, and at Allentown College, PA. Mark has designed for the New York Shakespeare Company, NYC; New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, NJ; Blue Light Theatre, NYC; Potomac Theatre Project, MD; Olney Theatre Center, MD; Pennsylvania Stage Company, PA; Bucks County Playhouse, PA; and The National Opera Co., NC. In the New England area, Mark has designed for Vermont Theatre Company, Burlington, VT; Creative Video/ CH12, Concord, NH; Lyric Theatre Co, Burlington, VT; and Lost Nation Theatre, Montpelier, VT. Mark attended Lester Polakov’s Studio & Forum of Stage Design, NYC; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA; and graduated from Western Illinois University, and Baldwin-Wallace College, OH.
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