STUDENT DIRECTING INSTITUTE
Learn about DIRECTING at the FESTIVAL!!! No experience necessary, but all experience levels welcome!
KC/ACTF Region II continues a directing initiative for students in the form of providing a laboratory for directing experience. Students who wish to participate in the series of workshops, auditions, and staged readings must fill out and submit the online application. This year participants will be limited to twelve.
Accepted applicants will choose from four or five short scripts, the titles of which will be sent to them upon acceptance to the program. Participants in the Student Directing Institute will be expected to attend and participate in four workshops spread throughout the festival. These workshops will be on text analysis; character development; and composition and the use of space. The Directing Institute students will also attend the New Play Productions (NPP) auditions and have the opportunity to cast their chosen scenes from the pool of actors, once ALL of the new plays have been cast. Upon successful casting of their scene, students will develop a rehearsal schedule and carry that out with the actors whom they have cast. During the rehearsals, directors will be mentored by experienced faculty directors to bring their work to a high level of staged reading. On the last full day of the festival, the student-directed scenes will be read for a panel consisting of the directing mentors, and the chair and vice-chair of the Directing Institute. While this program does not make a student director eligible for the SDC scholarship, success in the directing experience may yield such an opportunity the following year and/or place you in better position to direct a full-length production some time after the festival.
Include in your application a letter of recommendation from a faculty member who is familiar with your interest in and previous experience in directing. Also, please include a short essay describing why you are interested in directing and what you hope to learn from the Directing Initiative at KCACTF. Students interested must be able to attend the Region II Festival at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, Jan. 10-14. Applications must be submitted online by Dec. 1, 2011.
CLICK ON THE MENU APPLICATION ON THE LEFT TO APPLY NOW!
Don’t forget to ask you faculty mentor to also submit the FACULTY SUPPORT FORM!
Questions or concerns? Please contact:
Becky Prophet
Alfred University
607-871-2255
fprophet@alfred.edu