STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS (SDC) FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
ELIGIBILITY AND THE EVENT:
For information on the Eligibility and the Event, please visit the KCACTF National website.
http://www.kcactf.org/KCACTF.ORG_NATIONAL/Directing.html
HOW TO APPLY:
The following documents must be submitted electronically by November 21, 2011 by completing the SDC Directing Fellowship form at
http://www.kcactf1.org/sdc_fellowship_form_2011.asp.
The following application material must be sent by email as PDF’s to
adam.zahler@worcester.edu. The body of the email should contain a cover letter including your name, contact information and school.
- Faculty Letter of Nomination and Recommendation which speaks to the student’s:
- Ability as a Director
- Organizational abilities;
- Imagination and artistic vision;
- Communication skills;
- Ability to collaborate with others.
- Resume that focuses on your experience and training as a director.
- Statement of Interest by the student, addressing the reasons for his / her interest in the SDC Fellowship Program and what he / she hopes to achieve and learn through involvement in the process; this must also include a statement of your intent to attend the entire Festival and participate fully in all aspects of the SDC / KCACTF program.
DEADLINE: November 21, 2011
AT THE FESTIVAL:
Students participating in The SDC Fellowship Program should be prepared to be busy during the Festival. In addition to the Program Rounds, directing students will be provided rehearsal time, and will participate in directing workshops and roundtable discussions.
Up to twelve students will be invited to participate in the SDC Fellowship Program at the Region 1 Festival. Those students will prepare a scene at their home school, using bona fide students from their school. These scenes will then be presented at the regional festival.
Scenes are to be selected from a list that will be posted in the fall on the national website http://www.kcactf.org/KCACTF.ORG_NATIONAL/Directing.html
Note: Student directors or their school are responsible for purchasing and/or providing their own script copies for the above listed scenes.
Logistics and Technical Information: The only furniture items permitted and provided will be one table, and two chairs.
Any hand props or costumes required for the scene must be provided by the director. The regional host and coordinators will not be able to provide props or costumes for the scenes. Costumes may be used (but are not required). Please note that there is no technical support in the way of lighting and sound. The festival will provide a stage manager from the regional event. Directors should come prepared with a script for the regional stage manager. There will be a five minute break between scenes for set-up, with a ten minute break after every fourth scene.
DIRECTOR’S BOOK
Student directors will create a book for review by the respondents to include:
- Director’s Statement (see KCACTF National website)
- Analysis
Questions for Analysis
Identification:
1. List title of play, name of author, and date of writing, first production, or both.
Plot:
2. Briefly describe any significant previous action that occurs before the scene begins.
3. Describe the major event(s) of the scene.
4. Describe the scene’s basic conflict in a concrete sense (example: Edna wants Joe to join the striking cab drivers but Joe is afraid).
5. Describe how this scene’s basic conflict integrates with the basic conflict of the play in an abstract sense (example: Edna and Joe’s conflict reflects the basic conflict of Waiting for Lefty which is an exploration of the struggle of the working class against capitalist greed… etc., etc.).
Character:
6. List the characters, and provide an overall character objective and an objective for the scene.
7. Identify the obstacles between each the characters and each of their objectives in the scene.
8. How do the characters change over the course of the scene?
Vision / Concept
9. What is the importance of the scene to the play as a whole? How does this scene reveal, highlight, detail, or expand upon one or more of the ideas that the playwright hopes to communicate to her / his audience? (Please understand that the last part of this question asks you to identify at least one of the playwright’s ideas or purposes in writing the play.)
Spectacle/Design
10. List a series of imagistic words that capture your aesthetic sense of the scene’s look and “feel” of the play. These words could include colors, textures, ornamentation, relevant metaphoric images, light and shadow, composition, degree of detail, etc.
