Applications for the Sandglass Theater’s Summer Intensive Training Program are open now through May 1st. Intensive dates are: July 6 – 20, 2025

Applicants for the 2025 Summer Intensive training will select a focus track of Building, Performance or Directing. Participants will spend mornings as a whole ensemble developing common vocabulary through warm-ups, breath training and puppet animation/manipulation class. After lunch participants split into their tracks in puppet construction, puppetry performance or directing for puppet theater. In addition to daily classes, students will spend their evenings working on collaborative compositions in small ensembles, which will be presented at the end of the training.

Classes are scheduled five and a half days per week. Parallel lessons of morning training and focused afternoon tracks provide a strong foundation for participants to apply to their own work. Participants will have evening access to work spaces.

The objective of this training program is to:

*Inspire artists to understand and experience the strong potential of puppetry as a form of ensemble-based theater.
*Learn foundational techniques of giving life to inanimate objects in solo and collaborative processes.
*Enjoy being in a creative process with a group of peers to develop compositions that are specific to the medium of puppetry.

Sandglass teaches a method of puppet performance that has been developed over 30 years of workshops around the world. Morning training will be led by Eric Bass (Co-Founder), Shoshana Bass (Artistic Director), and Amanda Maddock (Sandglass Associate Artist). Applicants must select a first choice and second choice for the afternoon track. We will do our best to accommodate your first choice.

Applications can be accessed at sandglasstheater.org