GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY SEEKS VISITING DIRECTOR FOR FALL 2025 SEMESTER

Governors State University’s Theatre and Performance Studies program invites applications for a Visiting Director position for the 2025-2026 season, specifically Fall 2025.

A $2,700.00 stipend will be offered for this assignment.

The undergraduate program in Theatre and Performance Studies (TAPS), launched in 2014, provides students with an innovative and engaged approach to performance. Bridging theory with practice, the verbal with the visual, the major situates performance—from theatrical presentations proper to acts of everyday life—as a transformative agent of social, cultural, political, and personal change. Committed to the art of storytelling, TAPS considers performing the stories of others, as well as of the self, imperative for initiating and sustaining a dialogue of shared human experience across identities, diversities, and desires. Through courses that target performance technique, application, history, analysis, theory, and criticism, the program seeks to create well-rounded students, cultivating creative, critical, collaborative, and compassionate voices that move toward fulfilling careers and meaningful lives.

For more information about our program, visit: https://www.govst.edu/taps/ and https://www.facebook.com/TAPSGSU/.

Essential Responsibilities

Specifically, we are looking for a Visiting Director for Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous).

Production dates are:

• Load-In: October 27-31, 2025
• Tech: November 1, 2025, November 3-5, 2025
• Performance: November 6-9, 2025

Audition and rehearsal dates to be scheduled by the Director in consultation with the Production Manager, considering cast availability. The rehearsal timeframe is 5-6 weeks; 2-3 weeknights and a weekend afternoon, to start, have worked best in the past. Directors will work with a Stage Manager and professional Designers. Directors are welcome and encouraged to suggest their own designers, though there is no guarantee that we can hire them.

This production is relevant to the TAPS mission and the types of socially, culturally, and politically conscious shows already produced; and a text suitable for beginning actors. Our productions are unique for academic theatre insofar as they include not only students, but community members, staff, and faculty as well.

Required and Preferred Qualifications

To apply, please prepare the following:

(1) a cover letter (no more than 2 pages) that includes: a production concept for Anon(ymous), directorial process, and philosophy of working with students.

(2) a directing resume with the names and contact information of two professional references.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled. For priority consideration, complete applications should be submitted by April 30, 2025.

Supplemental Information

Please attach the following to your application materials:

1. Cover Letter
2. Resume/CV
3. Transcripts