Saint Michael's College student Katherine Rivers of Evansville lands internship with Saint Michael's Playhouse

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Katherine Rivers of Evansville lands internship with professional summer theater at Saint Michael's College, the Saint Michael's Playhouse.

COLCHESTER, VT (06/28/2011)(readMedia)-- Katherine Rivers, a sophomore theater major at Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vermont, decided to attend Saint Michael's in part because it gave her the possibility of participating in Saint Michael's Playhouse, a professional summer theater owned and operated by the college under Actor's Equity Association.

Ms. Rivers, the daughter Thomas and Nancy Rivers of Evansville graduated from Reitz High School before coming to Saint Michael's College, in Burlington, one of the top 10 college towns in the country. This summer Kit, as she is known, was offered a prized internship with the Playhouse, which puts on four professional shows each summer.

The internship role:

Ms. Rivers' primary task is as an administrative intern. She operates the box office, answers the phones, interacts with customers, and occasionally works in the shop to aid in the production of sets for each show. The real opportunity for her, though, comes in a role she landed in the Playhouse's smash-hit opening production, The Drowsy Chaperone.

Rivers plays an ensemble role in The Drowsy Chaperone, the first play of the season for the company.

"There is so much that I'm learning that class will never teach you," Rivers said about the opportunity. "I'm 19 years old, just out of my first year of college, and I'm in a professional production with a nationally recognized company. This is a great opportunity," she said. Playhouse internships are highly competitive and very valuable.

Playhouse background

Founded in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse features talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide and attracts approximately 16,000 theatergoers each season. An auxiliary enterprise of Saint Michael's College, the Playhouse is greater Burlington's only actors' Equity resident theater company and operates under contract with Actors' Equity Association in New York City. At the same time, Saint Michael's College students have the opportunity to learn from the pros through internships in technical theater, costuming, lighting, set construction, publicity, and occasionally, on-stage roles.

Learn What Matters at Saint Michael's College, The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college, www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael's provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael's College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top 10 college towns. Saint Michael's is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 373 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Saint Michael's has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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