IAT is pleased to announce an open call for directors for our 2012-2013 season. If you feel passionately about one of our projects, please send us your application.
The line up for IAT’s Season 6: How Dare We include:
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
October 5-6, 12-13
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello
December 6-8
5th Annual short Women’s Play Festival (featuring 6 short plays by women playwrights from around the USA)
March 7-9, 2013
Distant Music by James McLindon
April 25-27, 2013
How to apply:
1. Write a short letter stating your interest in directing one of these shows. Your letter should include the title of the play you are proposing to direct, a statement describing your approach to the show (aka director’s concept or vision), and your approach to working with actors.
2. Along with your letter, please include your resume (and representative photos from your directing portfolio, if available). Also, be sure to include contact information.
3. Email your application materials to board@iatheatre.org no later than 5 pm on Friday, June 8.
Directors for the 2012-2013 season will be selected and announced by July 4. We look forward to reading your applications!
A few special notes:
Want to know what’s up IAT’s sleeves for next season? You’ve come to the right place. We announced the line-up for Season 6: How Dare We during the final performance of the short Women’s Play Festival 4, and now we’d like to share it with the world.
Drumroll please…..
October 5-6, 12-13 – God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
Winner of the 2009 Tony Award and the basis for the 2011 movie adaptation Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s contemporary comedy of manners centers around a playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys which brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters.
December 6, 7, & 8 – The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, adapted by Joe Mantello
The Santaland Diaries gives us a glimpse of what a slacker’s Christmas must feel like. Out of work, our slacker decides to become a Macy’s elf during the holiday crunch. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of visitors start pouring through Santa’s workshop, he becomes battle weary and bitter. Taking consolation in the fact that some of the other elves were television extras on One Life to Live, he grins and bears it, occasionally taking out his frustrations on the children and parents alike. The piece ends with yet another Santa being ushered into the workshop, but this one is different from the lecherous or drunken ones with whom he has had to work. This Santa actually seems to care about and love the children who come to see him, startling our hero into an uncharacteristic moment of goodwill just before his employment runs out.
March 7, 8 & 9 – short Women’s Play Festival 5
IAT’s annual short Women’s Play Festival features new, short works by women playwrights from around the country and directed by local women theatre artists. Performed in March as a part of Women’s History Month, this annual festival celebrates the work of women artists.
April 25, 26 & 27 – Distant Music by James McLindon
On a snowy night in an Irish pub, Connor, Maeve and Dev meet, each agonizing over an irrevocably life-changing decision. The three fight over religion and beer, whether truth exists at all, the differences between the Irish and Irish-Americans, the many failings (according to Dev) of the latter, and, finally, the capacity of stout to explain, metaphorically and metaphysically, most of life. As the evening unfolds, each is eager to tell the others exactly what they should do with their lives and equally resolved not to discuss his or her own. Ultimately, Maeve’s determination to force Connor to confront their feelings for each other, and Dev’s weakness for eavesdropping on them through the heating vent, bring all three face to face with their futures.
Stay tuned for the upcoming call for directors!
Talley’s Folly
by Lanford Wilson
April 26, 27, & 28
directed by Emily A. Rollie
7:30 pm curtain
SilverBox Studio (107 Orr Street)
Written by Missouri playwright Lanford Wilson and featuring a unique, IAT barebones production aesthetic,Talley’s Folly takes place in Lebanon, MO, in 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley. Bookish, intelligent, totally honest and delightfully funny, Matt refuses to accept Sally’s fears that her family will never approve of their marriage. A play about kindred spirits and finding hope in human relationships, Talley’s Folly is a touching play from one of Missouri’s very own.
Interested in working on one of these fabulous shows as an actor, stage manager, or backstage crew?
Contact artistic director Emily Rollie, and she’ll hook you up!