Saint Michael's student Marla Caram of Hudson lands internship at Saint Michael's Playhouse,

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Marla Caram of Hudson lands internship with professional Saint Michael's Playhouse at Saint Michael's College.

COLCHESTER, VT (06/14/2011)(readMedia)-- Marla Caram, the daughter of Bruce and Kathleen Caram of Hudson, Mass., a senior theater major at Saint Michael's College, landed a coveted summer internship with Saint Michael's Playhouse. The Playhouse, which operates under contract with Actors' Equity Association contract, is owned and operated by Saint Michael's College in Burlington, VT.

Ms. Caram was offered an administrative internship with the professional theater company. Her duties include box office operation, which entails selling tickets and customer interaction, and work in the set shop, helping to build the scenes that will appear on stage.

"I've learned more about tools in these couple weeks than I ever knew before," Ms. Caram said, after describing herself as normally acting in college theater productions.

"I've taken classes on set construction, but actually being exposed to a working set shop is an entirely different experience." She says the increased pace and higher standards of perfection demanded by working for the Playhouse are a shock, but are well worth the effort.

When asked about the opportunities presented to her, Ms. Caram expressed deep excitement about the connections she is making. "The connections you make at the Playhouse are crazy and can last a lifetime. I'm sure I'll work with people from the Playhouse again, in or out of the college."

"I think everybody who is a theater major at Saint Michael's should try to do it," she said. "I wouldn't have spent my summer any other way." 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.