Play Selection Process

1. We announce we are looking for plays for the following season, and provide a deadline for submissions. We accept ideas at any time, but if they come in after the deadline, they will have to wait until the following year to be considered.

Anyone (audience members, people who see the announcement on the web site, board of directors, potential directors, promising new playwrights, etc.) is permitted - and encouraged - to submit ideas.

2. The approved directors go through the play suggestions and choose plays they would like to direct.

3. A schedule of play selection committee meetings is published. It is distributed to all who submitted play ideas, and will be posted on the Kaleidoscope Theatre web site and in the newsletter (if scheduling permits).

4. At the first play selection committee meeting, those who have submitted plays can make pitches as to why the suggested show would be a good one for Kaleidoscope Theatre to produce. If it is a show no director has said they would be willing to direct, this is the last chance for the submitter to convince them.

After this meeting, any shows which do not have a director willing to mount the production are removed from consideration for the season under consideration and placed on a list of potential future plays.

5. The voting play selection committee members (i.e. approved directors) read all the plays under consideration.

6. All plays which the committee agrees are not feasible for Kaleidoscope Theatre to produce for technical reasons (requiring something that we cannot do, such as a fly system) are eliminated from consideration.

7. The play selection committee then works to narrow the field to six shows with a schedule. Criteria for the final selection includes:

budget
marketable to our traditional audience
possibility of bringing in new audience
variety of genres
variety of roles for our actors
variety of directors
optimal scheduling (for maximum audience turn out)

8. The final slate the Play Selection Committee puts together is submitted to the board of directors for approval.