High five, Roundabout Theatre Co!
Roundabout Theatre Company and Columbia University School of the Arts have teamed to create a new program called Columbia@Roundabout in which the theatre will present public readings of plays by Columbia MFA playwrights, provide apprenticeships to MFA students for a full season, and facilitate teaching artist training."The New Play Reading Series will be held at Roundabout’s Black Box Theatre, with mentorship provided by Columbia faculty members, including David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, and Charles L. Mee. The apprenticeship program will take two MFA students annually, who will train with Roundabout’s executive management and leadership staff, and get assistance in launching their careers. The final component of the partnership will be the training of teaching artists, who will be taught by the Roundabout’s education team; they will also be given an opportunity to shadow professional arts educators into New York City classrooms."http://www.americantheatre.org/2016/03/10/roundabout-teams-with-columbia-to-train-students/