I’d like to work on a specific production coming up. How should I set up this Observership? | Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation

Please do not contact us with a proposed production – this is not the way the program works. Candidates cannot set Observerships up. We select Observerships by committee, with an eye towards arranging a certain mix of opportunities: musicals, plays; classics, revivals, and new works; NYC, NY state, and across the U.S.; first-time mentors and former mentors; opportunities for directors, choreographers, and director/choreographers. Additionally, open access to all candidates is a key element of this program to ensure that the program is not about connections, so no one can be pre-selected, and almost all Observers are unknown to the mentor prior to the Observership.

Founded in 1965, Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation (SDCF) exists to foster, promote and develop the creativity and craft of stage directors and choreographers. SDCF’s goals are to provide opportunities to practice the crafts of directing and choreography; to gather and disseminate craft and career information; to promote the profession to emerging talent; to provide opportunities for exchange of knowledge among directors and choreographers; to increase the awareness of the value of directors’ and choreographers’ work, and to convene around issues affecting theatre artists.

SDC Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization under section 501(c)3 organization of the Internal Revenue Code, SDC Foundation welcomes your charitable gift or grant to help realize our mission and support the work of aspiring and established directors and choreographers.