AY25-26 Theatre and Performance Studies (TAPS) - Visiting Director

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

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/.

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.