Who pays their directors?
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Topic: Who pays their directors?
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Who pays their directors?
Date Posted: 3/03/00 at 3:19pm
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Typically, do Directors get paid in most community theaters. If not, does anyone get paid or is it all volounteer?
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 3/12/00 at 4:29pm
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It varies from theater to theater. Some larger community theaters will hire a professional director and pay him or her a contractural fee. Some have "resident directors" on salary. Others are all-volunteer organizations where nobody gets paid. At our theater, we give the director an 'honorarium' of $100.00 - and often the director will donate that back to the theater!
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Posted By: Chris Polo
Date Posted: 3/19/00 at 3:59pm
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Our theater works on an all-volunteer basis -- the only folks ever to receive payment are the musicians who play for our annual fundraiser. Paying community theater directors is an uncommon practice here in our area (Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland) -- seems to be done mainly by groups that have no directors of their own and have to entice folks in from elsewhere.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 4/01/00 at 9:29am
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Our group has done it both ways. We have gone back to volunteer directors. It just doesn't work out for us. Where do you draw the line on who gets paid? Directors are important, but what about sound/lighting people? Set design and construction? Where we have 4-6 regular directors available, there is a dearth of technical people. My knowledge about lighting equipment, design and techniques is probably the most extensive in our catchment area and shows have often hinged on my helping out throughout the production or at the last minute. I have never asked for money (and probably spend more of my own than the group's) because I love the theater and the challenge of helping create the necessary stage illusions. I have used this argument (about paying technical people) to bring it back to volunteer directorial staff.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 7/27/00 at 12:17am
We are a small community theater in a town of only 5000 in Southern
Indiana. Our directors, choreographers, etc. have to come in from
over 50 miles away (Louisville). If we didn't pay them the would not
make the trip. There are too many opportunities for them to work in
the Louisville area. A musical director will receive from
$1000-$1200, a choreographer $500, music director $1000 (for this he
will orchestrate the score), etc. We rely on large rural arts grants
from the state for help with the funding and can only afford to do
one every two years.
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