Job Type: Part Time
Start Date: January 21, 2025
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024
Compensation: USD $28 / hour
Areas of Focus: Arts & Music, Children & Youth, Education

The AICA, now in its third year, is an intensive education and apprenticeship program, in which participants are paid to learn and work in the technical theater field. Seventeen of the leading arts education organizations in the city, led by The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts, Life Pieces To Masterpieces, and the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, have teamed up to train young adults who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic to enter DC's creative economy. Through an intensive education and apprenticeship program in technical theater, 26 young adults will be prepared for careers as offstage theater professionals whose roles include lighting and audio engineering, set construction, scenic painting, rigging, and stage management. Participants receive three months of course instruction, M-F, 12:30-6:30pm followed by three months of apprenticeship work (typically nights and weekends), resulting in nationally recognized certifications in lighting and sound and qualifying them to work as overhires in the high-demand, high-wage field of theater production upon graduation. Program graduates are currently working at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington Stage Guild, Design Foundry and many others, and, through the IATSE Union, with Capitol One Arena and Northwest Fed Field on major concerts and events.

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