Theatre Director Opportunities
Theatre Directors | Explore Directing Opportunities
View volunteer Directing opportunities at Alumnae Theatre Company.
Alumnae Theatre Company is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has been staging adventurous theatre for over 100 years.
Call for Directors
Mainstage Season 2022/2023
We invite experienced women directors to pitch for:
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Joanna Murray-Smith
Production Dates: Sept 23-Oct 8, 2022
This gem from one of Australia's outstanding playwrights was inspired by Germaine Greer's experience of being held captive in her country house in 2000. It frequently says the unsayable and gets away with it.
VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE by Christopher Durang
Production Dates: January 20-Feb 4, 2023
With wit and absurdity, Christopher Durang blends Chekhov’s famous ennui with the modern-day toils and troubles of celebrity, social networking, and age into a laugh-out-loud comedy that will tickle your funny bone and stimulate your mind.
STRING OF PEARLS by Michele Lowe
Production Dates: April 14-29, 2023
This deeply moving drama, which is as fresh as it is funny, explores the possibilities that open up in the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls.
Submission Deadline:
Saturday, April 30, 2022
What we need:
Submit a letter of interest with your resume attached and identify which show you’re interested in directing to rbaillie@rogers.com. A copy of the script can be sent to you if needed.
Interview Dates:
Interviews will take place on Zoom the week of May 16, 2022 (specific dates and location TBA).
At the interview you’ll present your proposal to the Directors Selection Committee outlining your ideas for a full in-theatre production.
*This is a non-paying engagement.
Mainstage Season 2022/2023
We invite experienced women directors to pitch for:
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES by Joanna Murray-Smith
Production Dates: Sept 23-Oct 8, 2022
This gem from one of Australia's outstanding playwrights was inspired by Germaine Greer's experience of being held captive in her country house in 2000. It frequently says the unsayable and gets away with it.
VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE by Christopher Durang
Production Dates: January 20-Feb 4, 2023
With wit and absurdity, Christopher Durang blends Chekhov’s famous ennui with the modern-day toils and troubles of celebrity, social networking, and age into a laugh-out-loud comedy that will tickle your funny bone and stimulate your mind.
STRING OF PEARLS by Michele Lowe
Production Dates: April 14-29, 2023
This deeply moving drama, which is as fresh as it is funny, explores the possibilities that open up in the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls.
Submission Deadline:
Saturday, April 30, 2022
What we need:
Submit a letter of interest with your resume attached and identify which show you’re interested in directing to rbaillie@rogers.com. A copy of the script can be sent to you if needed.
Interview Dates:
Interviews will take place on Zoom the week of May 16, 2022 (specific dates and location TBA).
At the interview you’ll present your proposal to the Directors Selection Committee outlining your ideas for a full in-theatre production.
*This is a non-paying engagement.
General outline of Directing opportunities at Alumnae Theatre:
They are all volunteer opportunities.
Calls and timelines for these opportunities vary each year.
Toronto's Alumnae Theatre Company puts out calls for Theatre Directors.
Please keep checking back here for details of these Theatre Directing opportunities.
__________
1) Open to both Non-Members & Alumnae Members
New Ideas Festival (staged in March)
Call for Directors for the New Ideas Festival is usually in September/October.
Alumnae Theatre Company invites non-union Directors to apply to direct one of the many plays (running time 10 to 40 minutes) for New Ideas Festival (NIF). This juried festival of new plays, works-in-progress, and experimental theatre is performed in March.
FireWorks Festival (staged in Nov.)
Call for Directors for the FireWorks Festival is usually in April.
FireWorks is a development festival, dramaturgy will continue right through production, and the writer will be part of the process.
Casting/rehearsals begin September. Alumnae is a non-professional theatre, committed to the highest standards of performance and production and diversity among artists. Performed in the Alumnae Theatre Studio - there are usually 2-3 new plays as part of the Festival.
Each play runs for one week, Wednesday to Sunday, with two performances on Saturday.
__________
2) Open to Alumnae Members:
3 Mainstage Shows (staged in Sept/Oct, Jan/Feb, April/May)
Call for Director/Producer Pitches and/or Pitch-a-Package for Mainstage shows are usually in September.
At that time, the Alumnae Mainstage Programming Committee seeks submissions from members and member teams:
Options for Directors or Director/Producer teams:
1. Pitch to direct a play from our shortlist of plays (Directors may pitch for more than one play)
2. Pitch to direct a play of your choosing that fits our criteria
3. Do both!
Are you a Director who is interested in pitching a play about which you are passionate?
Are you able to form a Director/Producer team (Designers and SM's) with other Alumnae members?
Are you a solo Producer interested in producing one of the plays on our shortlist?
__________
Write Now! Challenge (staged in Oct.)
Call for Directors who are Active Alumnae Members, for the Write Now! Challenge is usually in September/October.
The Write Now! Challenge is an Alumnae New Play Development Group event for it's group members to write a 10 minute play - over a weekend - based on a mystery subject.
Each play gets assigned a Director and it is presented, as a reading, a week later in the Alumnae Studio Theatre, usually on on a Sunday.
Audience is invited, and there's free admission.
There is typically one rehearsal.
__________
Big Ideas Festival of Readings (staged in May)
Call for Directors who are Active Alumnae Members, for the Big Ideas Festival is usually in November/December.
At that time, the Alumnae's New Play Development Group seeks experienced Directors to connect with Playwrights for our ‘Big Ideas’ play reading week of new works, which runs May.
They are all volunteer opportunities.
Calls and timelines for these opportunities vary each year.
Toronto's Alumnae Theatre Company puts out calls for Theatre Directors.
Please keep checking back here for details of these Theatre Directing opportunities.
__________
1) Open to both Non-Members & Alumnae Members
New Ideas Festival (staged in March)
Call for Directors for the New Ideas Festival is usually in September/October.
Alumnae Theatre Company invites non-union Directors to apply to direct one of the many plays (running time 10 to 40 minutes) for New Ideas Festival (NIF). This juried festival of new plays, works-in-progress, and experimental theatre is performed in March.
FireWorks Festival (staged in Nov.)
Call for Directors for the FireWorks Festival is usually in April.
FireWorks is a development festival, dramaturgy will continue right through production, and the writer will be part of the process.
Casting/rehearsals begin September. Alumnae is a non-professional theatre, committed to the highest standards of performance and production and diversity among artists. Performed in the Alumnae Theatre Studio - there are usually 2-3 new plays as part of the Festival.
Each play runs for one week, Wednesday to Sunday, with two performances on Saturday.
__________
2) Open to Alumnae Members:
3 Mainstage Shows (staged in Sept/Oct, Jan/Feb, April/May)
Call for Director/Producer Pitches and/or Pitch-a-Package for Mainstage shows are usually in September.
At that time, the Alumnae Mainstage Programming Committee seeks submissions from members and member teams:
Options for Directors or Director/Producer teams:
1. Pitch to direct a play from our shortlist of plays (Directors may pitch for more than one play)
2. Pitch to direct a play of your choosing that fits our criteria
3. Do both!
Are you a Director who is interested in pitching a play about which you are passionate?
Are you able to form a Director/Producer team (Designers and SM's) with other Alumnae members?
Are you a solo Producer interested in producing one of the plays on our shortlist?
__________
Write Now! Challenge (staged in Oct.)
Call for Directors who are Active Alumnae Members, for the Write Now! Challenge is usually in September/October.
The Write Now! Challenge is an Alumnae New Play Development Group event for it's group members to write a 10 minute play - over a weekend - based on a mystery subject.
Each play gets assigned a Director and it is presented, as a reading, a week later in the Alumnae Studio Theatre, usually on on a Sunday.
Audience is invited, and there's free admission.
There is typically one rehearsal.
__________
Big Ideas Festival of Readings (staged in May)
Call for Directors who are Active Alumnae Members, for the Big Ideas Festival is usually in November/December.
At that time, the Alumnae's New Play Development Group seeks experienced Directors to connect with Playwrights for our ‘Big Ideas’ play reading week of new works, which runs May.
Past Directors' Call
FireWorks 2022
Hallelujah! Alumnae Theatre reopens for live performance on January 26, 2021, with a brand new FireWorks production to blow away the Covid blues--MIXED DOUBLES--a 21st century farce by Ottawa’s Kate Jaimet.
It’s all about the leaky roof, a down-at-heels tennis club facing ruin, and a mixed doubles tournament that turns into a contest of gender-bending disguises. Generations collide and hilarity ensues.
4 women, 4 men.
To apply: send your resume by September 30 to
fireworks@alumnaetheatre.com
In the subject heading put 2022 Call for Directors
If selected for an interview, you will be given access to the script and asked to prepare a detailed outline of your vision for the production.
Note: Because it is a FireWorks show, dramaturgy will continue right through production, and the writer will be part of the process. Alumnae is a non-professional theatre, committed to the highest standards of performance and production and diversity among artists. Casting/rehearsals begin November. Production in the Mainstage Theatre.
FireWorks 2022
Hallelujah! Alumnae Theatre reopens for live performance on January 26, 2021, with a brand new FireWorks production to blow away the Covid blues--MIXED DOUBLES--a 21st century farce by Ottawa’s Kate Jaimet.
It’s all about the leaky roof, a down-at-heels tennis club facing ruin, and a mixed doubles tournament that turns into a contest of gender-bending disguises. Generations collide and hilarity ensues.
4 women, 4 men.
To apply: send your resume by September 30 to
fireworks@alumnaetheatre.com
In the subject heading put 2022 Call for Directors
If selected for an interview, you will be given access to the script and asked to prepare a detailed outline of your vision for the production.
Note: Because it is a FireWorks show, dramaturgy will continue right through production, and the writer will be part of the process. Alumnae is a non-professional theatre, committed to the highest standards of performance and production and diversity among artists. Casting/rehearsals begin November. Production in the Mainstage Theatre.
