Clone of Paul A. Kaplan Theatre Management Program - 2024-25 ECPT Track

Your application to the Early Career Professional Training program provides the MTC team with an opportunity to get to know you and your experiences. Please be thoughtful when crafting your résumé and responses to each of the application questions. To the extent you feel comfortable, we encourage you to bring to the application your full authentic self and your unique perspectives.

We recognize that applicants may wish to use AI as a supportive resource when putting together application materials. To ensure that all applicants are evaluated fairly, we ask that use of LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot be limited to copyediting. These tools should not be used in the generation of application content such as the résumé or responses to application questions.

You are asked at the end of this form to disclose whether you used AI tools in the process of putting together this application. This disclosure is for internal research use only and will not impact how your application is evaluated.

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Which department is your first-choice preference?*

Which department are you applying to as your second choice? (not required)

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Eligibility and Availability

If you are not currently eligible to work in the U.S., you will need to be able to provide proof of employment eligibility upon offer into the program.

Interviews will be held via Zoom between June 11–July 15, 2026.

The process will consist of a first-round interview, with the possibility of select candidates moving on to a second-round interview.

Please list times in which you would generally be available via video conference between June 11–July 15, 2026.

Note: We do not conduct interviews after 6pm EDT or on the weekends.

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Interview Availability Dates/Times via Zoom between June 11–July 15, 2026.*

What specifically about MTC’s mission, history, or place in the theatre landscape drives you to apply for this program and why? Why are you interested in intensive on-the-job training in the department(s) to which you are applying?*

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Explain why this career development opportunity at MTC is the best next step for you. What is one specific experience from the past year that clarified why now is the right time for you to apply?*

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What is one concrete contribution you believe you could make as a trainee? And, what are two specific things you would hope to learn or observe during the experience?*

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Describe a challenge, mistake, or unresolved tension you experienced in a collaborative or professional setting. What went wrong or felt difficult? How did others respond? What would you do differently now? *

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Company Management. The Company Management Trainee works under two supervisors and has to balance competing priorities in the office and at multiple theatres. Describe an experience you've had working in a collaborative team or partnership that has been especially beneficial for you. Please provide examples of both how you work in a team and how you manage balancing priorities across multiple projects.*

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Learning & Community Engagement. MTC Learning & Community Engagement creates experiences that empower learners to engage joyfully and authentically with theatre. Describe an educational or professional experience from your own life that aligns with our mission. What was meaningful about it? Were there any aspects that could have been more effective?*

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Literary. The Literary Department manages a high volume of script submissions, readings and workshops, and artist relationships. These many responsibilities often overlap during a given week or day. A successful Literary Trainee will demonstrate the ability to maintain robust organizational systems while balancing contributions to ongoing play development concurrently. Please describe an experience in a professional and/or collaborative setting when you managed similar competing priorities and how you did so.*

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Marketing Management. What's a Marketing campaign you love (it doesn't just have to be theatre) and what do you think makes this so strong? What's a Marketing campaign you think could be improved, and how would you improve it?*

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Marketing Strategy. Please describe a project that you led and/or managed and how you measured its success (or not) afterward.*

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Production Management. Describe a situation in which you had to balance competing needs from a group of collaborators in service of a positive outcome for the project. What measures did you take to ensure that all perspectives were acknowledged even if specific requests couldn't be met? *

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Special Events. Special Events is a fast-paced environment with many details to be noted and fulfilled for multiple events occurring concurrently. Mistakes can happen. How do you handle last minute changes and mistakes, yours and others, and how do you reset afterwards?*

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Résumé Submission

Please submit a one page résumé in PDF format. The font size should be no smaller than 11pt. This document may include: education and training, work history, relevant theatre/arts experience, and skills.

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