Kad790

Hello everyone- I ultimately decided not to apply for 16/17, as I received a promotion at Equity that paid considerably more- allowing to me save money. I plan on applying for 17/18, hopefully with a healthier savings account. This also gives me time to polish up the bunch of plays I wrote. Best of luck to all of you!

Hello all- Bumping this up, as it's application time. I'm a first-time grad school applicant, three and a half years out of undergrad. I'm only applying to three schools - NYU, Brown, Yale- due to the exorbitant app fees and desire to stay in the Northeast. I was considering Brooklyn College, but was thoroughly turned off by their extremely unhelpful and disorganized open house this week. I suppose I'm a little concerned about my resume, as it were- the last three years were spent working in theatre administration, mostly, with a lengthy GM/company management internship at an off-broadway company and now a job at Equity- which is less of a desired career than a need to pay bills and debts while working in theatre. I've been writing, obviously, and had a musical I wrote the book/lyrics for produced in a showcase production and further developed in a reading. I'm currently on a self-imposed project to write a draft of a full-length play a month, which has yielded four plays thus far (three of which I like and will be polishing). I also just got into a workshop at the Vineyard. But otherwise, I have had no other productions, fellowships, etc. etc. and I can't help but feel that I will be competing with applicants with far more impressive laurels. I know the old saw is "it really comes down to the writing" but with a diverse and diversely talented applicant pool, it's hard to imagine other things not having considerable weight.