<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">June 2023</font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">   </span>The purpose of this letter is to recruit directors for Workshop Players’ 2024-2025 season.  We have a wonderfully balanced season for 2023-24 and are looking your way to help us achieve that for our 2024-2025 season. </font></div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">  </font></span><br></p><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">     </span>We are hoping that you will be interested in submitting an application along with a list of plays you may be interested in directing.  We believe strongly that directors have more of an investment when they are given the ability to choose shows that they want to direct.  From submissions we receive we will put together a balanced season. </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:17px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b><span style="font-size:36px">The deadline for applying is August 1, 2023. </span><font size="4">  </font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:16px"><font size="4"><b></b><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b><font size="4">We welcome new comedies as well as the tried and true; compelling dramas, small-scale musicals, Christmas shows, and even children’s shows —- It is our focus to entertain!!!  We hope you will want to be part of it all. </font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4"><b>Please submit to Play Reading Committee Chair Pat Price at</b><span style="color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b> </b><a href="mailto:joeandpatprice@centurytel.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">joeandpatprice@centurytel.net</span></a><b>  </b></span></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b><font size="4">*if you have not directed with us before, please include a theatrical resume </font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6)"><font size="4"><b>*Submit 4-5 plays that you would be interested in directing at Workshop, along with a synopsis of the play (</b>may be copied and pasted from licensing agent)<b>.  </b></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b><font size="4">*</font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b><font size="4">*Give a brief summary of why you believe the play would be effective in our unique  theater-in-the-round space.   </font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b><font size="4">*Please be prepared to have at least one copy of each script available for the play reading committee should you be selected as one of the directors. </font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(144,0,6);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(144,0,6)"><b><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></b></span>Workshop Players Theater is a non-profit, <b>fully volunteer</b> theater.  It is the longest-running theater-in-the-round in Ohio (minus the pandemic break).  We have a strong following in the surrounding community and hope that you would like to be part of our theatre family.  </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Submitting directors may be interviewed by the Board of Trustees in August. </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><b><font size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">  </span>Due to the cost of production Workshop Players would do no more than one musical in a season, so if submitting musicals also include some straight plays to increase your chance of being chosen to direct.  Be aware that our backstage space is very limited, making massive scene changes difficult.</font></b></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">      </span>We will strive to put together a balanced season based on what is submitted to us. Most of all thank you for your interest in our theater. </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:15px"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">Pat Price </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">Play Reading Committee Chair </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">Workshop Players Theater </font></div><div style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><font size="4">Amherst, OH  44001</font></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Workshop Players Theatre</span><br style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif">44820 Middle Ridge Road</font></div><div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif">P.O. Box 1193, Amherst, OH 44001</font></div><font style="font-family:georgia,serif">Box Office: 440-634-0472</font><font style="font-weight:700"> <br>Find us on Facebook!</font><br></div></div></div>