La SITI is Now Offering Scholarships to American Actors

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28, 2017 -- La SITI is opening its doors to international students by offering $11,000 worth of one-year scholarships for aspiring American actors. Scholarship recipients will learn the Italian theatrical technique at the International School of Improvisation and Theater (La SITI) based in Rome. Students will also produce original shows and perform throughout the year in different theaters and festivals across Italy and Europe.

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The scholarship, worth $11,000, will have two rounds of submissions for American students interested in attending La SITI in Rome. The first round of scholarship submissions will be September 1, 2017 and end September 30, 2017. The second round closes in October and the final round of submissions will be accepted at the end of November. Qualified students will learn from some of the best actors, directors, writers, authors and improv specialists in Italy. They will learn authentic Italian theatrical art, such as Commedia dell’Arte, Giorgio Strehler or Federico Fellini, while producing their own pieces in original format with shows touring throughout the year in beautiful theatres across Rome.

“We don’t teach students to act, we teach students how to be an actor,” said co-founder Maria Beatrice Alonzi. “Acting is a unique and beautiful art form. We are thrilled to be able to teach and pass down our knowledge of Italian theater technique through our Empathy Method to international students.”

Students interested in applying will need to submit a resume, headshot, social media links and a brief cover letter. In addition, applicants need to compile a video that includes a brief description of themselves, approximately 30 seconds long, along with a monologue of their choice lasting approximately two to three minutes, and lastly an improvisational skit. The improvisational skit will be based off the actor opening to a page of a random book in their possession and improvising a short monologue based on the first words they see. Applicants must upload their video to a video transfer site and submit all requested material to [email protected] for review. For additional information interested applicants can visit: www.theatrescholarship.com.

“Our goal is not to find and select perfect actors, but instead find great people who are up for a challenge,” said co-founder Giorgia Mazzucato. “We want to see them challenging themselves while enjoying the risk and exposing themselves to different ways of acting. Attitude is the most important attribute to us.”

La SITI garnered international attention when Mazzucato took home the Outstanding International Artist award for “Lifegate” at this year’s San Diego International Fringe Festival. La SITI is now collaborating and producing alongside the most important movie and theatre production companies in Italy to bring their students’ hard work and visions to life.

About La SITI

La SITI, the International School of Improvisation and theater, is an International Production Center and Drama School in Rome. Its goal is to create the figure of an entrepreneur actor. La SITI offers professional classes in acting, movement, directing, writing, music, voice, history of theatre and also marketing, digital strategy, mobile photography. La SITI’s first purpose is to prepare the actors to be ready to work. Students are expected to be involved in photo shooting, video making, and learning how to become protagonists of their own career providing them professionals, specialist and a personal PR Office during all the year. The teachers of the school are professionals from all over the world. "The actors learn how to play through the “MIT^® Method” (www.metodo-mit.it), a method used to teach acting through empathy, which helps to develop creative freedom and improve artistic capabilities for life.”

For more information visit: http://www.lasiti.it/

Contact information:
Nadia Duwaik
[email protected]
310-994-7380