"One of America's Top 100 Internships" --The Princeton Review
Wolf Trap's Internship Program provides project-based training and experience to approximately 40 interns annually. Interns become integral members of the staff working side-by-side with professionals producing, promoting, and administering all aspects of the performing arts.
http://www.wolftrap.org/Education/Internships_for_College_Students.aspx
Summer Internships are offered in the following departments:
- Communications and Marketing: Multimedia, Graphic Design, Marketing, Advertising Sales/Group Sales, Web Communications, Publications, Public Relations, and Photography
- Education
- Planning and Initiatives
- Development: Grants Management/Foundation Relations, Donor Relations, Major Gifts, Annual Fund, Special Events
- Program and Production
- Accounting
- Wolf Trap Opera Company: Directing, Administrative, Stage Management, Technical Theater, Scenic/Prop Painting, and Costuming
- Information Systems
Summer internships are paid, full time (40-plus hours per week), and 12 weeks in duration.
Housing is the responsibility of the student, although guidance in this matter is available. Wolf Trap Interns are required to have a reliable mode of transportation as the Wolf Trap Foundation is not accessible by public transit.
Diversity Initiatives:
Wolf Trap administers the Josie A. Bass Career Development Program and the Los Padres Internship Program, which are designed to provide intern experience in arts administration for qualified African-American and Hispanic/Latino students to facilitate their entry into the profession of arts management. Learn more at http://www.wolftrap.org/Education/Internships_for_College_Students/Diversity_Initiatives.aspx
Application deadline for Summer 2009 internships is March 1.