By Amy Cuomo | The challenges that students face begin long before they step on campus. One of the biggest mistakes that Steven Roten, a theatre professor at Meredith College…
By Zackary Ross | I often tell my students that the greatest gift a playwright gives an actor is a pause written into the stage directions. A pause offers actors…
How did you find your theatre training program? This was a question recently posed to the SETC staff by our coworker Debi Belanger. For some, their theatre training begins at…
By Matthew Aaron Stern | Over the last year, we have experienced historical challenges that cannot be understated. A global pandemic, intense political division, a rising social justice movement, and…
Written by Erik DeCicco & Bill J. Adams | All of us in theatre understand the necessity of being able to walk in someone else’s shoes to develop good characters,…
Over the years, SETC News, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, has collected success stories of professional audition candidates. Check out some of the recently featured stories below…
Special theatrical effects can be so much fun to work on, but they can break the budget if you aren’t thinking imaginatively. Among the most challenging are those that incorporate…
Written by Deanna Thompson | Mill Mountain Theatre Creates, Presents Digital Production on Broadway on Demand When the coronavirus pandemic made it impossible for Mill Mountain Theatre to present its…
Written by Zackary Ross | When I started planning this column a short time after the coronavirus shut down theatres, my first thought was to include plays that somehow addressed…
Written by Mark Catlett | Creating a High-Quality Self-Taped Audition Is Key to Getting a Job in Our Socially Distanced World Prior to March 2020, video auditions, or “self-taped” auditions,…