The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival
is Now Accepting Applications for the
LAWTF Marketing and Development
Summer Intern!
What: The Los Angeles County Arts Internship
Program provides 10-week paid summer internships (40 hours/week) to eligible
undergraduate college students.
Students are paid
$400/week to work in nonprofit literary, performing and presenting arts
organizations and municipal arts
agencies throughout Los Angeles County.
Interns also
participate in additional educational components provided by the Arts
Commission.
Who: To be eligible to participate, students
must meet the following criteria:
· Enrolled in a community college, four-year
college or university program, and have completed at least one semester by June
1, 2014.
· Completed at least one semester of college by June 1, 2014or
will complete their undergraduate degree between May 1 - September 1,
2014 in order to be eligible to participate.
· Proof of residency (state issued ID or driver license) and
college transcripts are required.
· Interested students are not required to have demonstrated a
previous commitment to the arts.
· Students must either reside in Los Angeles County or attend
school in Los Angeles County.
Candidates can be
sought from all areas of undergraduate study and are not required to have
demonstrated a previous commitment to the arts.
All college students
regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or
disability who meet the above criteria are eligible to apply to
participate in the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program. Students
invited to participate in the program must provide a copy of their college transcripts
verifying undergraduate enrollment.
Students who have previously participated in the Los Angeles County Arts
Internship Program are not eligible to participate a second time.
When: This internship program takes place
between June and August 2014. Interns will work for a
specified ten-week period.
Interested students
should apply as soon as positions are posted as there is stiff competition for
a limited number of internships.
Sky Palkowitz, known as "The Delusional Diva", is an Avant-Garde Multimedia Performance Artist and Character Illusionist from New York. She's
performed around the country and all over Los Angeles, can be seen on
TV, internet and film, and recently toured Southern CA playing Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with
Shakespeare by the Sea in parks to over 25,000 people. Palkowitz just
returned from the off-Broadway Premier of her solo show Calling America: Don't Hang Up!!
Elizabeth Wu (I'm Dop3!, Prison Is Where I Learned To Fly) is an artist, actor, producer, and a part of the LAWTF Festival Submission Screening Panel, as well as the Founder and Executive director of Serving Artist in Process (SAIPRO). Wu believes there is an artist in everyone in whatever field of endeavor. In this light, SAIPRO is dedicated to providing a supportive community where the individual feels safe and encouraged to grow through the arts, to develop the skills to express their art, to showcase their work, and to attune to the "spirit of the artist within." SAIPRO has produced a number of solo productions. Elizabeth Wu is also a board member of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.
Sarah Zitin is a holistic practitioner, Chinese herbalist, author, public speaker, actor and part of the LAWTF Festival Submission Screen Panel. For the past 25 years, Sarah Zitin has practiced several modalities of bodywork and energy healing, working to align others in all ways- physically, spiritually emotionally and mentally, enabling others to achieve optimum well-being. Now the author of a new book, "A Simple Guide to Immunity,"Zitin is working on educating people on the benefits of participating in one's own healing, creating a healthier, happier lifestyle. Sarah Zitin is a long-time friend and supporter of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival as well as an annual member of the LAWTF Festival Submission Screening Panel. As a public speaker, artist and author, Zitin is excited to be a part of the 2nd Annual EMPOWERMENT DAY helping to further solo artists in creating both successful careers and more fulfilled lifestyles. 
Debra DeLiso has been a theatre artist for over twenty-five years working as an actor, choreographer/dancer, director, playwright, and teacher. DeLiso has guided the writing and directed nearly 200 one-person shows at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, USC, and in professional theatres. DeLiso thoroughly enjoys the challenging and personal work of taking actors through the writing process into performance. She has written two of her own solo performance pieces, one about her mother, one about the visionary dance artist Isadora Duncan. She also conceived the play Cock Tales, an evening of wickedly original male monologues from some of L.A.'s best playwrights which ran for 10 months in Hollywood.
