1. Performance majors are urged to audition for all college productions.
2. Any Sinclair student can audition. Auditions are usually also open to the general public. Individual directors may choose to limit auditions to only Sinclair students. While the priority for casting will go to Sinclair Community College students who are deemed suitable for a particular role, directors are at liberty to cast from outside the college.
3. Casting shall be made according to the individual priority of the director. The faculty and guest directors recognize and honor the need to provide educational opportunities for students. They also recognize the delicate balance needed to maintain high quality work. In addition to the director, the Chair of Theatre and Dance will assign a member of the faculty or staff to observe auditions, ensuring that students are given fair consideration for roles for which they are suitable.
4. Students must indicate on the audition form which roles they wish to be considered for, and which roles they would not accept. If cast, students are required to accept any role which they indicated that they would accept on their audition form. Students may be offered roles other than those indicated on their forms and are encouraged to accept those as well. Rejecting a role after the cast list has been posted is a serious breech of professionalism and most likely would prevent the actor from being cast in a Sinclair production for a twelve-month period. Exceptions to this rule will be made by petition to the Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department, who will consult with other faculty members in considering the request.
Company Expectations
1. There is no eating or drinking permitted in the theatre, control booths, or rehearsal spaces. NO SMOKING, EATING or DRINKING in costume.
2. Actors are expected to arrive 15 minutes prior to their call times. It will be the director’s prerogative, in consultation with the Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department, to replace actors and crewmembers that are unacceptably late or absent.
3. Directors are free to arrange rehearsal schedules to suit the needs of the production and the availability of rehearsal spaces. Actors are expected to be available for rehearsals whenever called, unless specific conflicts were listed on the audition form.
4. Actors should always bring pencils, scripts, and notebooks to rehearsals.
5. Actors must meet all assigned line deadlines. It is the director’s prerogative, in consultation with the Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department, to replace actors who fail to meet established line deadlines.
6. Actors and crew members will arrive at the theatre alert and ready to focus on the production. Company members who use mood-altering substances prior to or during rehearsals and performances risk expulsion from the company.
7. A sign in sheet will be posted for technical rehearsals and performances. Please do not sign in anyone other than yourself.
8. No visitors are allowed backstage, in the dressing rooms, or control booths before, during or after technical rehearsals and performances.
9. Directors will establish their own policies regarding visitors during rehearsals.
10. Actors should not meet with the audience until after a performance. Actors must be out of costume and makeup before entering the lobby area.
11. Actors and crewmembers who have to leave the rehearsal or waiting areas should let the stage manager know where they will be and when they will return.
12. If an emergency occurs that will make an actor or crewmember late for a call, the actor/crew member should contact the stage manager or director at (937) 512-3102 (stage manager’s office) or (937) 512-3808 (control booth).
13. All actors and crew must attend load-in & strike. Actors with unavoidable conflicts must clear the conflict with the technical director at least two weeks in advance and make arrangements for alternate technical service (generally work in the shop at a later date). Failure to do so will jeopardize the actor’s/crew member’s eligibility to be involved with future productions.
