Want to be a PEER next year?
Applications due THIS FRIDAY by 4pm
NOW accepting applications for next year's Peers positions.
One student from the BA program, the BFA program, and the Dance program will be chosen to act as the 2008-2009 academic year
Peers. The chosen Peers will act as liasons between faculty and students, creating easily navigable pathways of communication.
The Peers are responsible for:
- writing and updating the U of M Theatre Arts & Dance publication,
the BACKSTAGE PASS
- Planning any Townhall forum discussions
- Giving tours to prospective students
- Organizing the New Student Orientation before the start of fall semester
- Arranging Awards Day at the end of the year
Elligibility: IF YOU...
- -Are enrolled as a University of Minnesota undergraduate Theatre Arts or Dance Program Major with at least sophomore
standing at the time of application.
- - Hold
and maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA
- - Have a Breadth
of educational interests that include Department of Theatre Arts and Dance course work and extracurricular laboratory-style
design, performance, history/Lit, and/or technical theatre activities.
- -Have a strong interest and ability in representing the undergraduate majors and minors in Theatre and Dance.
- -Have the ability to work as a part of a group utilizing
reason and compromise...
Then you should consider applying for one of these coveted PAID positions!
Application deadlines:
- All applications are due March 28 by 4pm
- Interviews with specific candidates will be the 1st &
2nd weeks of April
- Candidates will be informed within a
few weeks of their interview
- A public announcement of the
2008-2009 Peers will be made at Award's Day at the end of this spring semester in May
**Get your applications from the door of the Peers' office in the basement of Rarig. ALL APPLICATIONS MUST
BE TURNED IN AS HARD COPIES. WE DON'T ACCEPT EMAILED APPLICATIONS.
the 2008-2009
Peers will be chosen by:
Sonja Kuftinec (On Sabbatical - Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Luverne Seifert (Interim
- Director of Undergraduate Studies)
Kendra Heithoff (Current - Dance Undergraduate Peer)
Ashley Peterson (Current - BFA Undergraduate Peer)
Briar DeHaven
(Current - BA Undergraduate Peer)
WE WANT YOUR BIOS & PHOTOS!
Email your Peers at peers@umn.edu with any photo of yourself including a short bio. Consider the following questions
in your bio:
What are your theatre or dance interests?
Are you performance focused? Design focused? Directing focused? etc.
What are
your goals for the rest of your education career in the dept of theatre arts & dance?
What are your plans post-graduation?
What do you hope to see on the stage in the future
in the dept?
What is one thing you appreciate most about this dept?
What is one thing you'd change about this dept? How would you change it?
What are
your favorite things? (Color, food, quote, feminist theorist, etc.)
Add anything
else of interest!
Any student in the dept of Theatre Arts & Dance
is WELCOME to submit their photos & bios.
LET'S CREATE AN ONLINE COMMUNITY OF UOFM THEATRE ARTS & DANCE STUDENTS!
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EXAMPLE BIO:
Hi I'm Bitty Bo'boppin, a performance focused student getting
a degree in Theatre Arts. I've recently been performing in the new hot play titled, "Runnin' From Poo" and
you just might catch me in mid-performance someday soon, in the basement stalls of the women's restroom. I'm very
fond of experimental, site-specific theatre. I’m not so very fond of melodrama or old-ish plays like all that old-ish
Greek shiz. My favorite color is neon and my favorite food is shrink-wrapped. My goals for the future involve me eating and
playing, sometimes eating while playing, and playing like I’m eating. That’s called acting. I love the call to
action in this department. I don’t so much love the apathy towards this call. I’d change this by setting small
fires under the asses of everyone. Hope to see you around!
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