Meet Former Scenic Intern - Joseph Fry

Meet Joseph Fry

My name is Joseph Fry and I was a Meadow Brook Theatre Scenic Intern for the 2016-2017 season. I participated in the scenic build and installation (among other things) for productions such as “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery”, “Why do Fools Fall in Love?”, “Altar Boyz”, and of course “ A Christmas Carol”. The work was hard but I was exceptionally grateful to have been able to receive the experience of working with a full-time theatre of such caliber after undergraduate college.

The fall after my time with Meadow Brook I began graduate school at Virginia Tech. where I am currently earning my MFA in Theater with a concentration in Technical Direction. Meadow Brook taught me a lot about the hard work and dedication necessary for professional theater and I was able to take those skills I developed with me to graduate school.  While at Virginia Tech., I have gone on to participate in numerous productions as several different roles including Scene Shop Supervisor, Automations Engineer and Technical Director.  I graduated in May of 2020.

While in school, for the past two summers I have worked for Peterborough Players, a summer theater in the woods of Peterborough, NH. My first summer I was hired as their Assistant Technical Director and last summer I returned as their Technical Director, a role I will be re-assuming this upcoming summer of 2020. It is an interesting feeling to now have interns of my own. The Peterborough Players produce 9 productions in 4 months and the quality of their productions are fantastic and maintained at a level similar to that of Meadow Brook Theater.

Recently as part of my curriculum at Virginia Tech. I went to the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to work for one semester as their Technical Direction Apprentice. There I continued to learn even more about professional theatre and I feel completely ready for wherever I end up working after graduation.