Philadelphia Theatre Company's Career Development Initiative has one overall objective: to inspire and train theater professionals. While revealing to young people the limitless possibilities for a rewarding career in theater arts, we seek to develop a genuine pool of committed behind-the-scenes personnel that we, as well as other theaters, can draw upon. Our program addresses the difficulties that emerging professionals encounter in gaining on-the-job experience and achieving a foothold into their chosen field — an often elusive goal for administrative and production trainees.

Over the last decade, PTC has nurtured over seventy aspiring professionals in a wide range of administrative, production, and artistic areas, many of whom now work professionally in theatres in Philadelphia and across the country.