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.
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1) Open to both Non-Members and Alumnae Members

New Ideas Festival (to be presented in the 2025-26 season)
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 (to be presented  in April, 2025)
FireWorks is a play development festival. Dramaturgy continues right through production, and the writer will be part of the process. The Call for Directors will be posted December 1, and casting/rehearsals  will take place in February/March. Held in the Mainstage Theatre, the festival usually comprises two-three new plays. Each play runs for one week, Wednesday to Sunday, with two performances on Saturday. Alumnae is a non-professional theatre committed to the highest standards of performance and production and diversity among artists. 
Three 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?
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2) Open to Alumnae Members 

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.