2025 AICA Portfolio Showcase
Do you or someone you know hire technical theatre professionals? Meet the graduates from the Arts Institute for Creative Advancement’s Class of 2025: a talented, diverse, hire-ready cohort trained and ready for more work in lighting, sound, carpentry, props, costumes, and more.
AICA Emerging Theatre Tech Portfolio Showcase
🗓️ Date & Time: Thursday, August 28, 6-7:30pm
📍 Location: The Theatre Lab, 900 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001
🎟️ Tickets: Click this link to RSVP for free
Our diverse group of soon-to-be graduates, ages 18-25, are available for hire and have already worked as professional theatre technicians with esteemed performing arts and entertainment organizations in the DMV, including: 1st Stage, 4Wall Entertainment, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Complete Fabrications, District Fringe, GALA Hispanic, IATSE Local 22, Mosaic Theater, NextStop Theatre Company, Spooky Action Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
At the showcase, each graduate will give a brief presentation highlighting their portfolio, areas of expertise, and work samples. Immediately following the showcase, you’ll have an opportunity to meet and mingle with the graduates and even conduct brief interviews as you look to staff your season.
Your attendance and support can help launch these young professionals into thriving, lasting careers in theatre. If you’re unable to join us, we invite you to send a colleague in your place so that our graduates still have the opportunity to meet leaders in our industry.
About the AICA
Launched at the beginning of 2023 to help alleviate the labor shortage in backstage workers and diversify the field, the Arts Institute for Creative Advancement (AICA) is a paid year-long career training and apprenticeship program in technical theatre production for young adults who have encountered obstacles to livable wage career paths. To date, 84% of AICA graduates are working consistently in professional theatre and event venues.
The groundbreaking career-readiness program was formed by the founding members of the DC Arts Education Alliance and is led by The Theatre Lab, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, and Life Pieces To Masterpieces. Participation in the AICA program leads to immediate job placements that offer livable wages in the DMV theatre and entertainment industries. Partnering theatres at which apprentices have worked and trained include 1st Stage, Atlas Performing Arts Center, GALA Hispanic, Keegan Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Spooky Action Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and more.
The AICA is supported by the Clark Winchcole Foundation, Congressional Sports for Charity, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Community Project Fund, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the DC Department of Employment Services, the Department of Education through a subgrant from the Kennedy Center’s Access/VSA, the Harman Family Foundation, the Morgan Fund, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Revada Foundation, The Share Fund, VC Mars Foundation, and the Venable Foundation.
