Alabama Shakespeare Festival

April 24, 2006 by Dennis Baker 

I was called by ASF on Good Friday. They were interested in me and wanted to fly me out to see the theatre. When I auditioned for them they said contact them once offers come in and they would let me know if they were interested. When I was talking with Rutgers, Iowa, and Indiana I emailed ASF to let them know I needed an offer. That was a month before they called me.

I wanted to relook at ASF before I called and told them I had accepted another school. The good things about ASF is that it is a two year program, which is paid for with a stipend. The degree is through University of Alabama, but all the work is done at the professional theatre. There were no Children’s Hospitals in the nearby area. I knew this was not going to happen. If they would have contacted me a month earlier, I would have seriously considered it. My last thought was that ASF would be a great program if I wanted to go off and act in professional regional theatre full time. With the realization that we will move back to LA after graduate school, Rutgers is a better education for film and television, knowing that I can do some theatre in the area.

So with all that in mind, I called ASF and thanked them, but declined the offer. I expressed regret that they had not contacted me earlier. The response I got was that they had dropped the ball on their end with the organization of contacting students.

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