64th Season Director Applications

Colonial Players is still seeking directors for the 2012-2013 Season. Please contact the Artistic Director Carol Youmans at 410-263-5625 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for scripts or information or download the application which lists the plays and send it to the address above.

Applications to direct shows in the Colonial Players 2012-2013 Season are available on the Downloads page of our website. The deadline specified on the application form has been extended. Please turn in applications as soon as possible!

Directors can review the application form and e-mail the requested information to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Alternatively, directors can download the application form, complete it, and mail it with their resume to Carol Youmans, Artistic Director, 108 McKendree Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401, or to Carol Youmans, Artistic Director, The Colonial Players, Inc., 108 East Street, Annapolis, MD 21401.

Interviews with director applicants will be held in late March and early April 2012. Your interview with the Director Selection Committee of the Artistic Team will consist of a presentation of your concept, vision of the show, and a discussion of the answers you have provided to the questions on the application.

Scripts are available to borrow by prospective directors. Contact Carol Youmans at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 410-263-5625.

Rights are still pending for select shows within the 64th season slate, so the slate with performance dates will not be formally announced until rights for all shows have been secured. The proposed slate for the 64th season is as follows:

Bell, Book and Candle
Written by John van Druten
September 14 - October 6, 2012

This light hearted 50’s comedy is about what happens when a witch in New York, makes a lover of a very conventional man and then has to face the consequences when she really falls in love with him. Full of charming characters. 3 men and 2 women, 20’s to 80’s.

Sunlight
Written by Sharr White
October 26 - November 17, 2012

Matthew Gibbon, liberal lion and university president, may have finally gone too far in his battle against the conservative Dean of the law school - his son-in-law and former protégé. His daughter is caught between them and the entire university is up in arms. The personal and political collide in this stunning play about loyalty, power, and torture memos. 2 men, 2 women, 30’s to 70’s.

Shipwrecked
Written by Donald Marguilies
January 11 - 26, 2013

The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity that left 19c England spellbound. With the help of two “volunteers,” who make all the costume changes, sound effects and play nearly 100 roles right before your eyes, the incredible tale is told by the audacious autobiographer of his life on the high seas and what happens when we returns home 30 years later. 2 men,1 woman.

Trying
Written by Joanna McClelland Glass
February 8 - March 2, 2013

This play is about a young Canadian girl hired to be secretary to an irascible old Philadelphia aristocrat who served as Attorney General of the United States under FDR. The author was the secretary in the true story. One woman in her twenties, one man, 80.

1776
Music & Lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
March 22 - April 20, 2013

The seminal even in American history blazes to life in this most unconventional of Broadway hit musicals. It is the summer of 1776 and the nation is ready to declare independence if only our founding fathers can agree to it. 24 men, 2 women

In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
Written by Sarah Ruhl
May 3 - 18, 2013

In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hysteria” in women: the vibrator. Adjacent to the doctor’s laboratory, his young and energetic wife tries to tend to their newborn daughter – and wonders exactly what is going in the next room. Set in the 1880’s at the dawn of the age of electricity and based on the bizarre historical fact that doctors used vibrators to treat “hysteria”, this play centers on a doctor and his wife and how the new therapy affects their entire household. “Smart, delicate and very, very funny!” 4 women, 3 men

Taking Steps
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
June 7 - 29, 2013

Alan Ayckbourne responded to a request for a door slamming farce for a theater in the round with this play which has the three floors of an old Victorian home placed on one level, stairways, closets and all. In the course of one hectic night and morning, with continual running up and downstairs, and in and out of rooms, two couples, a solicitor and realtor, each immersed in a personal problem, try to sort themselves out. All this happens in a highly ingenious and original setting in which all the rooms, passages and stairs are on a single level. 4 men, 2 women.