A large variety of productions are presented throughout the school year as part of our regular instructional program and during the summer by our nationally acclaimed pre-professional training program, Summer Repertory Theatre. Auditions for school year shows are generally held within the first ten days of each semester. Participation in Summer Repertory Theatre is based on special auditions and interviews held in February and March of each year. Don't miss the opportunity to participate in a program that will change the shape of your life. Most students are of college age, although we do have a high school apprentice program in the technical and management areas.
Students apply from throughout the state and the professional staff comes from around the nation.
Local students who number at least half the company each season are challenged to compare their skills with those of students from many different backgrounds. While our production values are high, training is our priority. Using a combination of repertory and conservatory concepts, SRT offers the professionally oriented theatre and music student a chance to explore what can only be theory during the academic year, thus making this type of program unique. The program serves an audience of some 30,000 each season. Our graduates have gone on to work professionally as teachers, technical directors, costumers, directors, designers, actors and technicians throughout the world, in such prestigious venues as Euro Disney, The Los Angeles Music Center, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, California institute of the Arts, Disneyland, Portland Repertory Theatre, Disney Feature Animation, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Illinois Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Cal State University Stanislaus, Old Globe Theatre, UC Santa Barbara, the New York City Opera, and the Broadway productions of Les Miserables, Pacific Overtures and Forty Second Street.