Directing Opportunities at Region IV
There are two exciting tracks for directors at the regional festival. All directors need to officially apply, even if you were nominated for student directing a production on your campus.
10 Minute Play Festival
The Ten Minute Play Festival Directing (NPP) is a regional award program designed to support the work of student playwrights and directors.
Directors of all experience levels are encouraged to apply, as long as they have completed at least one 3-hour course in directing. Up to six student directors are chosen for this project on the basis of experience and faculty
recommendations.
These student directors will watch audition submissions prior to the festival, and participate in a group casting session at the start of the festival. During the festival, you will work with the student playwright, stage managers, dramaturg and actors to produce a virtual staged reading, informed in presentation format by Actors’ Equity Association guidelines, of the new script. Not only is this a wonderful opportunity to work with student actors, stage managers, dramaturgs and playwrights from other schools, but it can also be a great springboard to the SDC Fellowship Program.
- For more information, check out the Ten Minute Play Festival page
- Send your Letter of Intent and Letter of Support to Dewey Scott-Wiley
- Materials should be turned in no later than December 15
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) Directing Initiative
SDC is the theatrical union that unites, empowers and protects professional stage Directors and Choreographers throughout the United States. Founded in 1959, SDC has spent the last six decades fighting for the rights and livelihoods of these seminal artists.
The SDC Directing Initiative provides recognition, honor, and financial assistance to outstanding
student directors who have demonstrated success in direction.
One student director from each region will be selected as a Regional Finalist and invited to
participate at the national festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC each April. This
finalist will be awarded travel, lodging and per diem expenses, as well as attendance at KCACTF
National Festival workshops and performances. In addition, finalists receive a one year Associate
Membership in SDC.
Region IV Procedures
Each student will choose from the listed scenes on the National KCACTF website for 2021.
Students must be able to cast actors from their home schools to work on the scenes.
For all the details on the application process, and the new virtual processes, click here.
Deadline for SDC Application materials is December 1st