March 7, 2019
Dear Potential Director,
In several weeks the Board of Trustees of Workshop Players Theater will be reviewing applications for directors for our 2020-2021 season and setting up interviews. We are hoping that your application will be in the mix!
Directing in our unique space is a truly rewarding experience. Though we are a volunteer theater and there is no stipend for directing, the proximity of the audience, the challenge of converting our black box into varying locations, the pool of talent who frequent our theater make directing here a terrific experience. We hope you will apply to join us for what will be our 73rd continuous season!
We ask that applicants provide the following:
1) If you have NOT directed with us previously, submit a theatrical resume, detailing your experience and including two references of people you have worked with.
If you HAVE directed with us previously, this step is not necessary.
2) ALL applicants should submit a list of 3-5 plays you are interested in directing,
ALONG WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAY (which may be copied and pasted from the licensing website.
3) Add to the description of each play why you believe it would work in our unique space.
(Theater in the round, close proximity to audience, very little backstage storage space, four possible entrances two of which are accessed from wings outside of the theater)
4) Include within that list at least one FAMILY FRIENDLY OR CHILDREN’S SHOW, PLEASE.
Below is a list of shows that Workshop Players is potentially interested in producing. Your list need not be limited to what is below, but use it as a resource. These plays have not necessarily been “thought out” as a director would to solve production elements. That’s the fun part that would be up to you!!! Certainly, add other plays that are not included.
ALSO NOTE THAT WORKSHOP PLAYERS THEATER IS A VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION AND THERE IS NO STIPEND FOR DIRECTORS, DESIGNERS OR ACTORS.
Thank you,
Pat Price, Play Reading Committee Chair
List of Potential Plays for Workshop Players 2020-2021
Musicals
Chicago
Godspell
Man of LaMancha
Baby
The Last 5 Years
Title of Show
Sweeney Todd
Big Fish
Footloose
Musicals Appropriate for children AND adults
Honk
Suessical
Plaid Tidings
Li’ Abner
Scrooge
Dramas
Glass Menagerie
Death of a Salesman
Streetcar Named Desire
Bus Stop
Crimes of the Heart
Lion in Winter
Doubt
Proof
Lost in Yonkers
Comedies Christmas Plays
The Humans Scrooge
Sunshine Boys Dashing Through the Snow (Jones, Hope Wooten)
The Good Doctor The Hallelujah Girls (Jones, Hope, Wooten)
Boeing, Boeing A Nice Family Christmas
Butterflies Are Free Ken Ludwig’s, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas
Ten Nights in a Barroom 1940’s Radio Christmas Hour
Panache
Artifice
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Comedies and/or dramas appropriate for children and adults
Harvey
Anne of Green Gables
Alice in Wonderland
James and the Giant Peach
The Wind and the Willows