Applications will be evaluated by the SDCF staff as well as a panel of directors and choreographers. If you are a finalist for an opportunity, you will be contacted by SDCF staff. Applications are evaluated on the following three categories:

Clarity: The applicant’s ability to articulate interest, with specificity, in the theatrical art form and in their own work as a director and/or choreographer. Their response has clarity of thought, understanding, and focus.

Timing: The applicant speaks to why this is the specific right moment in their career to participate in the given opportunity.

Access & Impact: The applicant articulates why this production opportunity would give them access to knowledge and/or a type of educational theatrical experience they do not currently have.