<p>Hi I’m one of the guthrie jrs abroad right now. As far as built in study abroad curriculum, the only ones I know of where you are required to go abroad with your acting company is UMN/Guthrie (fall semester jr yr), Rutgers (an entire year), Hartt (10 weeks during their spring semester), NIU (fall semester jr yr).</p>
<p>It’s quite a different thing to have the option to study abroad than to go separately or with only a portion of your class.</p>
<p>Honestly I’m only really familiar with the programs for my school and rutgers as I know a few students there.</p>
<p>I’ve met some students from Syracuse who are here for the fall as well, but came with only a portion of the acting and musical theatre jr class. One of my company members also ran into a hs acquaintance while we were at the National the other week who goes to Northwestern and is here for the fall through BADA.</p>
<p>I believe there are other programs with study abroad components in their curriculum. There are only a select number of the nature like mine and rutgers however that expects not just individual but ensemble growth from the study abroad experience and requires the entire company to go abroad together and continue to build upon their company dynamic.</p>
<p>To clarify Gwen, we only do an abridged show while we’re here in London and work on our Greek when we get back to the states…the fall semester in London builds on the Shakespeare training we worked heavily in last year that wrapped with our Shakespeare project and to experience more physical approaches to acting like Michael Chekhov work and Lecoq work with some other workshops/intensives thrown in to compliment and add on to what we sometimes refer the first half of our training time as the “foundation years”.</p>