International Young Critics Seminars

(March 4 — ALTHOUGH IT IS NOW TOO LATE TO APPLY for St. Petersburg — taking into account the time it takes to secure a visa — the following also explains the process to go through for future IATC Young Critics Seminars.)

St. Petersburg in April, 2010

Jan. 16, 2011 — Applications are being taken from professional theatre critics, ages 18-35 (with some flexibility at the upper limit), for a Young Critics Seminar (YCS) attached to the 14th Europe Theatre Prize in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 12-17, 2011. Go to ATCA International, the separate site of our International Committee, for details — click here for the specific Jan. 16 announcement. But here are the guidelines:

As it says on the webpage of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) and again on its “applications” page, applications for a YCS must include “a brief (one page) CV, two or three examples of your writing as a professional critic and a letter of recommendation from your national section of IATC.” In the USA, that national section is ATCA, whose leadership (chair and executive committee) customarily delegate these recomendations (while retaining oversight) to its International Committee chair, currently Jeffrey Eric Jenkins. Applications for a YCS should go through him. ATCA members are preferred — but a non-member interested in an international seminar can join ATCA expeditiously, in time to be considered.

Note that for YCS seminars, as with other IATC meetings, housing and meals (“hospitalty,” they call it) are normally provided by the host organization, leaving only the costs of international travel to be born by the participant. Foundation ATCA sometimes provides subsidies for that travel, but here, too, ATCA members are preferred.

ATCA’s International Committee chair keeps a cumulative list of ATCA members interested in attending a YCS, of which there are generally two or three each year.