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GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY SEEKS DIRECTOR FOR FALL 2023 SEMESTER
Governors State University’s Theatre and Performance Studies program invites applications for a visiting director position for the 2023-24 season, specifically fall 2023.
The undergraduate program in Theatre and Performance Studies (TAPS), launched in 2014, provides students with an innovative and engaged approach to performance. Bridging theory with practice, the verbal with the visual, the major situates performance—from theatrical presentations proper to acts of everyday life—as a transformative agent of social, cultural, political, and personal change. Committed to the art of storytelling, TAPS considers performing the stories of others, as well as of the self, imperative for initiating and sustaining a dialogue of shared human experience across identities, diversities, and desires. Through courses that target performance technique, application, history, analysis, theory, and criticism, the program seeks to create well-rounded students, cultivating creative, critical, collaborative, and compassionate voices that move toward fulfilling careers and meaningful lives.
TAPS produces three large-scale productions per academic year: a fall show in early November, a dance concert in late winter, and a spring show in early April. Some past productions include 12 Angry Jurors, The Scarlet Letter, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Fat Pig, Eurydice, The Laramie Project, Fahrenheit 451, and A Raisin in the Sun. Current season productions include Cloud 9 and Othello. Productions are staged in one of two venues/configurations: in our proscenium-style 1,100 seat Center for Performing Arts (CPA) or cabaret style with audience seated on the stage of our CPA and a more intimate proscenium stage of approximately 200 seats. We are also open to productions that utilize found space across campus.
Our productions are unique for academic theatre insofar as they include not only students, but community members, staff, and faculty as well.
The rehearsal timeframe is 5-6 weeks; 2-3 weeknights and a weekend afternoon, to start, have worked best in the past.
Responsibilities
Shows to Submit for Consideration
small cast shows (<10)
unit set or minimal scenery
relevant to TAPS mission (socially, culturally, and politically conscious)
text suitable for beginning actors
already produced
Director’s Responsibilities
determine rehearsal schedule based on cast availability
work with stage manager and production designers (directors are welcome to recommend their own designers, but there is no guarentee we will be able to higher them)
Requirements
Previous experience working with undergraduate students is desired
MFA/BFA in directing
Interest in cultivating connections with the city of Chicago
How to Apply
To apply, please prepare the following:
(1) a cover letter (no more than 2 pages) pitching at least two shows, production concept(s), directorial process, and philosophy of working with students
(2) a directing resume with the names and contact information of two professional references
Submissions should be sent electronically to Patrick Santoro, Artistic Director, at psantoro(at)govst(dot)edu. Please use “Visiting Director Position” as the subject line.
Application deadline is February 15, 2023.
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Posted on December 6