Meredith Maiorana
By Zoë Eitel
For Meredith Maiorana, choosing where to intern means choosing how she wants to brand herself to future employers and which skills she wants to develop. In order to ready herself for a future in commercial theatre management, Meredith has spent time interning for Allied Touring, the Goodman Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre, the last of which has led to her current job as a development assistant.
She has grown her portfolio with skills like brand management and public relations for commercial and nonprofit organizations. She hopes to find one more internship so she can get experience with general management before graduation.
Development Assistant at Victory Gardens Theatre
Through the internships she’s held, Meredith’s love of her major has been cemented. She specifically loved her work at Allied Touring because she sees her future in commercial theatre and working on big Broadway shows like the “Mean Girls,” “Rent” and “Spongebob” tours was exciting.
“It’s great to sit around in the classroom and talk about how something could work or look like and have a template, but until you go out there and actually do it, it’s hard to really understand how it all works.”
“It’s great to sit around in the classroom and talk about how something could work or look like and have a template, but especially in the theatre world, until you go out there and actually do it, it’s hard to really understand how it all works,” she says. “In all three places I interned at, I had supervisors and bosses who were invested in my growth as a person, were interested in helping me learn and grow.”
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Meredith was able to land two of her three internships by connecting with professionals in the field. Her boss at her job in DePaul’s Theatre School connected her with a friend at Victory Gardens who was looking for an intern.
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