NYC Summer Internship at Prospect Park Summer Stage/ Celebrate BK

No unpaid internship is worth it to break into NYC - especially one in Brooklyn. Just my $.02
What would you see as a fair internship? I graduate from undergrad in a little under a year and I've been looking around.
 
What would you see as a fair internship? I graduate from undergrad in a little under a year and I've been looking around.

If you are strictly interested in working in New York, particularly in theater there are only two internships worth your time. You will quite literally be nothing but a warm body at Celebrate Brooklyn, who is working 6 days a week for no good connections - at best you are looking at maybe meeting someone who does strictly off-off Broadway and is some starving brooklyn artist who is making their yearly money off of Celebrate Brooklyn.

The two internships worth your time - 1. williamstown, but you are fighting against 20 other interns to get noticed by a designer and designers can't always promise work, so you have to hustle pretty hard, and also not get paid anything. 2. shakespeare in the Park, because the crews are often Broadway and off-Broadway folks inbetween gigs. There are usually no more than 2 to 3 interns per department, you get exposure to a Broadway designer and crew meaning you have more opportunities to get outside work after the internship, plus the Public does have 5 other theaters downtown so there is a good chance that if you do a good job that could toss you overhire work after the internship. Pay is a small stipend, but they follow the rules of an unpaid internship so it's not as bad as other places.
 
Just as clarification that Williamstown is not in NY/NYC but in NW Massachusetts.
 
Just as clarification that Williamstown is not in NY/NYC but in NW Massachusetts.

Yea, I should have mentioned that. My rationale in Williamstown is that it's a good avenue to getting work in NYC. There's usually a handful of people on any crew i'm on that did at least a single summer up there.
 
Yea, I should have mentioned that. My rationale in Williamstown is that it's a good avenue to getting work in NYC. There's usually a handful of people on any crew i'm on that did at least a single summer up there.

One could then also add the Spoleto Festival in Charlston, SC as well as the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, NM.
 

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