How A Submission Becomes a Production

First, the playwright slaves over the summer to create a one-act. (Here are some tips for aspiring playwrights.) The playwright submits his/her play or plays, in the format we want, to the Dramashop office in W16-018 (that's the basement of Kresge Auditorium). Scripts can also be emailed to ds_officers.

We'll make copies of the plays available here, in Rinaldi (E33), and in the Music & Theater Arts office. Potential directors spend the next couple days reading the plays and writing proposals.

The next week is reserved for directors' interviews. Directors must make themselves available on one night early that week for a twenty-minute interview. Each interview is a short discussion between the director and the Dramashop officers about the director's style and interests in the plays. The Dramashop officers then choose the plays and directors for the One Acts. After this meeting, these choices -- the final set of one-acts -- are announced via email and on the Scripts Web Page.

From there, it's a long, strange trip through auditions to the productions in November!