Synopsis
Directing Professionally
Published by Methuen
It features a host of insightful case studies and brief interviews with professional theatre directors, artistic directors, producers, critics, managing/executive directors, and theatre leaders currently working in the field in the UK and the US
How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry?
Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as a director
Directing Professionally first lays out paths for aspirant directors to train, grow and succeed as directors, then advises freelance directors on how to establish and accelerate their professional careers
It also reveals the most significant ways those directors become artistic directors today
With a frank, thoughtful and often humorous examination of the job of professional direction and artistic direction, Thompson writes about the passion, commitment, artistic vision, directorial experience, leadership skills, and powerful persuasive gifts needed to succeed in this extraordinary field
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
PART I: Entering the Field
Chapter 1. The Big Leap
Chapter 2. Understanding the Business of Theatre
PART II: Your First Professional Job
Chapter 3. Interviewing for the Job
Chapter 4. Director's Work in Pre-Production
Chapter 5. Rehearsals in the Studio
Chapter 6. Moving into the Theatre through Final Dress
Chapter 7. Previews through Opening
PART III: Advancing Your Career
Chapter 8. Finding Your Next Job(s)
Chapter 9. Directing New Plays & Musicals
Chapter 10. Nurturing Your Art & Yourself
PART IV: Becoming an Artistic Director
Chapter 11. Leading a Theatre or Not
Chapter 12. Getting the Artistic Director Job
Chapter 13. Preparing to Lead
Conclusion
Notes
Further Reading
REVIEWS
"Kent Thompson's Directing Professionally is the perfect blend of the real experience of directing in professional theatre and the process needed to direct in today's theatre companies ... Kent's optimistic and realistic book is an invaluable guide for every student of directing or emerging director" ~ Jane Page, University of California, USA
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