Applications are OPEN for 2025 Fall/Winter E-Term!
The collaborative relationship between Dartmouth College and Northern Stage provides Dartmouth theater students with extraordinary access to a fully professional and nationally renowned theater company. The Dartmouth campus is located just 10 minutes from Northern Stage, and the close relationship between Northern Stage and Dartmouth College provides students with an important stepping-stone from the study of theater to the practice of theater as a professional endeavor. Internships are offered in acting, directing, production and arts administration for both undergraduate students.
“As a member of the Dartmouth theater faculty and Producing Artistic Director of Northern Stage, I am proud to offer the opportunity for our students to receive hands-on training with nationally renowned artists and administrators. The journey to a career in the theater is made much smoother for students who are given the firm foundation of real world professional experience. Dartmouth College has one of the most expansive theater departments in the Ivy League, and our relationship with Northern Stage deepens our students’ understanding of and ability to create theater for the future.”
– CAROL DUNNE
Producing Artistic Director, Northern Stage
Lecturer, Dartmouth College Department of Theater
2025 Fall/Winter E-Term Program - Introducing Stratford Festival Intensive!
The Dartmouth Department of Theater, The Stratford Festival (Ontario, Canada) and Northern Stage (a LORT professional regional theater) are partnering to provide students from Dartmouth an immersive educational experience that is unparalleled in undergraduate theater education. They will encounter multiple aspects of theater production, from the logistics of running a not-for-profit business to the creation of the art itself, in a carefully mentored environment in which they work alongside professional artists and administrators. The concept of the E-term originally grew from the department’s awareness that students in the arts rarely have the opportunity to work alongside professionals, similar to how STEM students assist in a professor’s lab. The E-Term was so named because it exemplifies the promise and potential of experiential education.
WEEKS 1-2* will be a residency at the world renowned Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada. Students will attend all productions in the 2025 season (including As You Like It, A Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, Annie, Sense and Sensibility), observe rehearsals, and receive masterclasses in voice, speech, acting, dramaturgy, and design from Patsy Rodenburg and other Stratford company members. The students will be immersed in all aspects of one of the worlds largest and most prestigious theater companies.
WEEKS 3-16 will be a residency at Northern Stage in White River Junction, VT. In addition to hands-on work, they will receive specific mentoring and career preparation from Northern Stage staff as well as visiting artists. Under the mentorship of Producing Artistic Director Carol Dunne and BOLD Associate Artistic Director Sarah Wansley, each student will also develop a passion project; past passion projects have included a solo or group performances produced at Northern Stage, original written work, well-researched dramaturgical resources for Northern Stage productions, a community outreach or educational initiative, etc.
Northern Stage will also be producing COME FROM AWAY, directed by Northern Stage’s Producing Artistic Director Carol Dunne. For the holiday season, we will be producing PETER & WENDY, a new re-imagination of Peter Pan, adapted and directed by Eric Love.
Other opportunities: assisting a designer in production, or participating in run crew in production, assisting in Neukom Award workshop planning & marketing, teaching opportunities with younger students, assisting artistic administration or general management.
2025 Fall/Winter E-Term Timeline
MAY 1, 2025 – Fall/Winter 2025 E-term application window closes. In order to participate, students must be on an off-term in Fall 2025.
MAY 15, 2025 – Students selected for E-term.
SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 – Students in E-Term travel to Stratford Festival and begin their immersive learning.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 – Students travel back to the US to Northern Stage.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025 – Students begin their administrative duties and passion projects.
NOVEMBER 7, 2025 – Students begin rehearsals for mainstage holiday show (TBA), a new adaptation by Eric Love.
DECEMBER 6, 2025 – Holiday show opens
JANUARY 1, 2026 – E-Term concludes
Term ends on Wednesday, JANUARY 1, 2026. (*Due to Northern Stage’s performance schedule, involvement in the run of the holiday show–as part of cast or production–will result in E-Term overlapping with Dartmouth’s winter break.)
Questions about the E-Term? Please contact BOLD Associate Artistic Director Sarah Wansley swansley@northernstage.org to inquire.
“My time at Northern Stage is something that I look back on with immense amounts of pride, gratitude and fulfillment. Northern Stage is a very special theater doing incredible work and it’s astonishing to me that I had such open access to the space and the professionals working within it. I think the E-term was incredibly well designed and perfectly built to challenge and expose me to many different aspects of the craft and business…. It becomes more and more clear to me as time goes by that I hit a gold mine in the time spent with [Sarah Wansley] and others at Northern Stage.”
—Isaiah Brown D ’23 (writer, actor, musician, and administrator)
See our students in action!
“I am forever grateful to Northern Stage for my E-term!! I had such an incredible time working with artists from so many different backgrounds as well as the staff who have experience in so many different fields in both the theater and nonprofit worlds… Northern Stage empowers its community and does its best to create spaces that are truly for everyone.”
—Sarah Grace Williams (Fall 2023 E-Term)
““The E-Term not only provided me the opportunity to work with professional artists in a capacity I never had, but also get to know and learn from them. The diversity in experiences showed me that there is space for me to follow my own artistic voice in the professional world.”
—Lexi Warden (Winter 2020 E-Term)
Where are our E-Term students now?
E-Term students continue their professional careers at Northern Stage and beyond…
Jaclyn Pageau ’18 (Fall 2016 E-Term) After graduation Jackie joined the Northern Stage company as a stage manager and education director. She has since added intimacy direction to her skills and coaches actors at Dartmouth and other regional theaters.
Tess McGuinness ’18 (Fall 2016 E-Term) Tess graduated and went into the film industry. She is currently a producer for Red Wagon Entertainment and worked on the recent Gladiator II.
Claire Feuille ’18 (Fall 2016 E-Term) Claire graduated from Dartmouth and began a freelance acting career. Recently she has been producing and is instrumental in bringing Operation Mincemeat to Broadway in March 2025.
Virginia Ogden ’18 (Fall 2016 E-Term) was a theater major who performed in Macbeth and A Christmas Carol at Northern Stage. After graduation she became Northern Stage’s first Helen Gurley Brown Associate. Virginia is currently a film producer in Los Angeles with Reveal Entertainment.
Stephanie Everett ’19 (Fall 2017 E-Term) Steph, a varsity soccer goalie at Dartmouth, discovered theater her junior year. Her passion project at Northern Stage, It’s Fine, I’m Fine, won top honors at the United Solo Artists Festival, toured to medical schools, and was one of the first live professional productions in the pandemic. She was recently in the cast of Suffs on Broadway as well as Skeleton Crew at the Guthrie Theater.
Holden Harris ’19 (Fall 2017 E-Term) Holden is currently a graduate student at the Gallatin School at NYU, with a concentration in Writing, Film, and Journalism. He is also a freelance artist and production assistant.
Kerrigan Quenemoen ’19 (Fall 2018 E-Term) Kerrigan became Northern Stage’s second Helen Gurley Brown Associate, working in all areas of artistic producing at Northern Stage. She then took on performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is currently adding producing Suffs the musical to her work portfolio.
Sam West ’20 (Fall 2018 E-Term) After graduation, Sam became the Assistant to Barry Grove, Executive Director of Manhattan Theater Club and is now a Producer of Audiobooks for Simon and Schuster.
Jacqui Byrne ’21 is currently a graduate student in the MFA Acting program at Columbia University.
Lexi Warden ’21 (Winter 2020 E-Term) became a teaching artist at Seattle Repertory Theater. She continues to work as an actor and choreographer as well.
Kate Budney (Fall 2020 E-Term), Cait Deerin (Fall 2020 E-Term), Claire Feuille (Fall 2016 E-Term), Sophie Kinne (Fall 2018 E-Term), and Sam West (Fall 2018 E-Term) have all continued their professional theater careers at Northern Stage and beyond.
Questions about the E-Term? Please contact BOLD Associate Artistic Director Sarah Wansley swansley@northernstage.org to inquire.