Director Wanted for first show of 2005 Season
Thu, 24 June 2004, 02:50 amWalter Plinge10 posts in thread
Director Wanted for first show of 2005 Season
Thu, 24 June 2004, 02:50 amShoestring Theatre Company is now opeining it's doors. After completing 2 shows and a third on the way, we are now looking for new directors to open the 2005 season. We require directors who have a play they wish to put on and a great idea of how to do it. All shows for the 2005 season will be run on a Pro/Am (Profit Share) basis, so there's even a chance at making a little money. Email me john@shoestringtheatrecompany.com if you have the perfect play as we are now looking for submissions.
Re: Flights of fancy
Sun, 27 June 2004, 11:49 amLuke Heath wrote:
> ...so even if the theatre only pays 25% of the flight, and I pay 75%...
Hi Luke.
Just to give you a ballpark scenario, when I attended the first round of call backs for The Lion King, I was expected to pay for my own return flight from Perth-Sydney. And this was after already establishing at the Perth audition that I was someone they were interested in considering. For my second call-back the Disney company paid for the second flight....this still only amounts to them contributing 50% of the cost, after passing two previous auditions, from a company with a considerably large budget.
Similarly, for the recent Glynn Nicholas audition, I was lucky enough to at least be in Victoria at the time, but I know others who paid for their own flight from Perth-Melbourne.
As a director, when I was expressly invited by an Artistic Director I met at the Vancouver Festival to come and direct a play in Winnipeg later that year, I was still expected to find my own transport across Canada (a couple of days in a Greyhound bus).
You're effectively auditioning for the first time, when you present your scripts or your directing resume to these small-budget companies. They would be taking a chance to use you sight unseen...they're probably not prepared to risk the cost of flight expenses as well. If you're keen, which you sound like you are, post your scripts out; and save up to fly/drive over and attend the interviews in person.
Or do what John Travolta does, get a pilot's license and fly your own 747.
Cheers,
Craig
> ...so even if the theatre only pays 25% of the flight, and I pay 75%...
Hi Luke.
Just to give you a ballpark scenario, when I attended the first round of call backs for The Lion King, I was expected to pay for my own return flight from Perth-Sydney. And this was after already establishing at the Perth audition that I was someone they were interested in considering. For my second call-back the Disney company paid for the second flight....this still only amounts to them contributing 50% of the cost, after passing two previous auditions, from a company with a considerably large budget.
Similarly, for the recent Glynn Nicholas audition, I was lucky enough to at least be in Victoria at the time, but I know others who paid for their own flight from Perth-Melbourne.
As a director, when I was expressly invited by an Artistic Director I met at the Vancouver Festival to come and direct a play in Winnipeg later that year, I was still expected to find my own transport across Canada (a couple of days in a Greyhound bus).
You're effectively auditioning for the first time, when you present your scripts or your directing resume to these small-budget companies. They would be taking a chance to use you sight unseen...they're probably not prepared to risk the cost of flight expenses as well. If you're keen, which you sound like you are, post your scripts out; and save up to fly/drive over and attend the interviews in person.
Or do what John Travolta does, get a pilot's license and fly your own 747.
Cheers,
Craig
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