MY ARTISTIC BLUEPRINT

Enrollment is Closed

The BLUEPRINT program focuses on college and career preparation to enter the world of professional theatre. Learn about career paths for theatre. including performing, arts management and marketing and the various areas of technical theatre. Get the inside scoop on current trends in internships, casting and the industry as a whole. Build an understanding of how to survive and thrive as an artist, including topics like personal finance, unions, professional conduct and how to develop and sustain career opportunities. Through panel discussions, break-out-sessions, real-life examples and mentoring, students will develop their own BLUEPRINT to realize their dream of a career in the performing arts.

Course Staff

Lendre Kearns

Lendre Kearns has worked in arts management and marketing for 45 years including stints with Broadway in Tucson, La Jolla Playhouse, Minnesota Dance Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and more. She has facilitated retreats and taught workshops in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia in a variety of subject areas among them, presenting, touring, strategic planning and marketing. She has taught at Goucher College, the University of Toronto and Thunder Bay Community College. She is a self-described “arts dilletante/worker bee”, serving on boards and volunteering her services for a number of Tucson organizations, most notably, Arts Express. She is also occasionally taking on projects including workshops and facilitating planning for a variety of organizations outside Tucson.