March 15, 2018

Dear Potential Director,

The Ides of March is upon us, meaning that there are approximately two weeks left before Workshop Players’ deadline for submitting to direct in our 2019-2020 season, which will be our 72nd continuous season.

If you have directed for us before, you need not submit a resume, but we will need:

1) A list of 3-5 shows you are interested in directing.

2) Accompanying those titles should be a description of the plays that may be copied and pasted from the licensing agency.

3) Your explanation of why/how the show would work in our unique space.

If you have not directed for us before, we need the above items, plus a theatrical resume.

We are looking for shows that are:

1) Family Friendly

2) Include or are aimed at children

3) Shows with title familiarity

4) Potentially Christmas selections

5) Shows of interest to you from the list below.

Please note that we have not “vetted” the below shows for “workability” in our space as that is the job of the director’s vision. If you choose one or more from the list, please justify how/why it would work in our space.

We look forward to April 1st (no fooling) to hear from you. Send applications to me at joeandpatprice@centurytel.net

This is a reminder that Workshop Players Theater is a volunteer organization and that there is no stipend for directing … just the joy of making magic through theatre.

Pat Price

Musicals: 

Chicago 

Godspell

Little Shop of Horrors 

Man of La Mancha

Honk! (a musical for children) 

Seussical

Pippin 

Baby

The Last Five Years

Dramas:

Glass Menagerie

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? 

Streetcar Named Desire 

Death of a Salesman

Bus Stop

Crimes of the Heart 

Lion in Winter 

Doubt

Proof

Lost in Yonkers—dramatic comedy

Comedies

Odd Couple—but change it up to do the female version 

Harvey

Clybourne Park 

The Humans

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

The Play that Goes Wrong

The Good Doctor

Additionally, these are plays that the play reading committee “slept” (in other words, liked but did not choose in the past)

Hail Mary, by Tom Dudzick Comedy 2m 3f Playscripts , Inc.

Life With Father by Lindsay/Crouse (done in 1978) 8m, 8f 5 teens Comedy, Dramatists Boeing, Boeing by Marc Campletti, Comedy, 2m. 4f Samuel French

Butterflies Are Free, by Leonard Bersne Comedy, 2m, 2f, Samuel French 

First Night, by Jack Neary, Comedy, 1m, 1f Samuel French

Philadelphia Story, by Philip Barry, Comedy, 9m, 6f, Samuel French 

Sunshine Boys, by Neil Simon, Comedy. 5m, 2f, Samuel French