Doing college theatre with Equity card?

itu123
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:02:13 +0000

Hi all - hopefully this is the right place for me to ask this. Not sure if many people in here are super well versed in the theatre world, but hopefully someone is and can help me out!
I am a current high school student looking at a multitude of colleges. Although I am not planning to major in it, I would love to do college theatre as an extracurricular. Due to a stroke of luck in high school, I was cast as one of the main roles in a national tour and got my Equity card. This means that I cannot perform in non-Equity theatre productions. This is very unfortunate, but does anyone know if I would be able to participate in the technical side of college theatre at least? I’m not really interested in going into theatre as a career/for the rest of my life (bolstered by the fact that my parents don’t support that at all), but I’m honestly very hesitant to give my Equity status up. (Also, I consider this a pretty strong extracurricular - does anyone have ideas on ways to frame this in my college app?) Thanks to anyone who can help!