Student-Supported Rothrock Residencies
Do you have an artist or group that you’ve always wanted to work with? A dancer, musician, filmmaker, actor, choreographer, playwright, arts administrator, or technician, to name a few examples?
Do you want to be part of a larger conversation about the arts at Middlebury and expose your peers to someone amazing?
Now is your chance to bring artists to campus!
Here are examples of previous residencies>>
The Rothrock Family Fund for Experiential Learning in the Performing Arts, established in 2011, supports opportunities that broaden the scope of Middlebury students’ experience in the performing arts. The program provides funding for students to bring one artist/ensemble/company to campus* for student-oriented residency activities.
Congratulations to Isbeth Bustos ’26!
Her proposal to bring Mexican folklore group
Mis Raices to Middlebury was selected as the winning 2025–26 residency by our PASS Scholars.Details on the residency will be available soon.
Read below for info on the process. Proposal details for the 2026–27 year will be available in the Spring.
For 2025–2026 proposals, please follow these criteria:
- Live or remote/virtual residency proposals costing <$7,500 in total
- Residencies of three days or less, between January–May 2026
- Artists based in New England, New York, or the adjoining (driving distance) states
- Artists must be US citizens, green-card holders, or already possess valid visas to perform in the US
- Support and signature from the chair of the relevant arts department
Proposal forms due Friday, October 17, 2025 and available here—>
And don’t forget the additional Departmental Support Form–>
Student-Supported Rothrock Residency (SSRR) proposals are generally due mid-Fall term (to present the artist within the same academic year), and any Middlebury student may apply. We support the winning student so they can play a key role in the artist residency planning and hosting the artist when in Middlebury. Please plan accordingly to be responsible and involved.
PASS Scholars get first notice to apply, and ultimately vote on the winning student proposal. It is free for students to join PASS, so consider joining and have a greater voice in the process!
Congrats to Sophie Liebman ’27.5 and Marco Motroni ’25 on their winning proposal for the 2024–2025 academic year.
This opportunity is made possible through the generosity of the Rothrock Family–whose son Nathaniel ’12, was active in Theatre and Music–to ensure students have access to the visiting artists who bring their talents to our campus through the Performing Arts Series and our various arts programs.
Questions can be directed to pass@middlebury.edu.
Examples of previous SSRR winning projects include:
Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof (dance)
February 19-26, 2017
Proposing students: Andrew Pester ’17 and Mandy Kimm ’17
Israeli artists Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof have done extraordinary work in the fields of dance, visual art, electronic music, and film, and spent their week-long Middlebury residency leading Gaga and Repertory workshops, Gaga People master classes, an Electronic Music class lecture, plus a closing lecture/demonstration. The artists also shared their perspectives on living and working as artists in Israel.
Rotimi Agbabiaka (theatre)
March 14-16, 2017
Proposing student: Akhila Khanna ’17
Rotimi Agbabiaka offered a theatre master class entitled “Techniques of Telling your own Story” and performed his self-written, one-man show ‘Type/Caste’—tracing his own struggles of being a Nigerian, queer man pursuing an acting career in the US.