For the performing arts, an industry built on the gathering of bodies and the ephemerality of the moment, this has been a difficult, if not career-questioning process. I spoke to several New York City-based performing artists, from comedy & drag to theatre & dance, who have made the leap to virtual live events.

Interns are not meant to be indispensable to operating the theatre or running the show. If you’re solely responsible for lighting Scene 4, laundering costumes, checking props for Act I, keeping the actor playing Hamlet from missing his entrance, and acting as the understudy for Gertrude, you’re indispensable and therefore not an intern.