Amaris Bates ’18

I did an internship in London, and that’s when I sort of started getting interested in arts admin. I wanted to explore that more. I worked for Professor [Craig] Quintero my senior year as assistant to the theatre department chair. That was a lot of administration work, and that made me more interested in it.

Amaris Bates ’18

“I did a [Mentored Advanced Project] in Taiwan [60 30-minute performances of Night Magic to one audience member each] that was really great in terms of getting a professional theatre experience. It was really cool to be able to get that experience under my belt and to be able to be in that professional performing environment and to know what that schedule is like and how rigorous it is. And I think that was helpful in determining whether or not I wanted to do this as a job.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do after graduation, but I wanted to work in theatre somewhere. So I applied to a bunch of different programs that were either apprenticeships or residencies or paid internships where I could get my foot in the door in the professional theatre world.”