• Auditioning
  • Directing
  • Helping Backstage
  • Season Memberships
  • Donations
  • Gifts
  • Jean Lewis Scholarship
  • Summer One-Acts

AUDITIONING

Auditions for upcoming adult shows are usually held the first two nights after the previous show ends (or shortly after Labor Day for the first show of the season).  Audition dates and times are posted on our Current Season and Home pages.  Auditioners read from the play script instead of performing a prepared monologue.  Copies of scripts from the current season are available (for in-library reading only) at the Danville Public Library.  Everyone who is cast in a show is required to purchase a season membership.

Information on auditioning for children's shows is found on our Children's Theater page.

DIRECTING

Each year, the Red Mask Board of Directors accepts director applications for the forthcoming season.  Applicants must download and complete an application (below) describing their production plans.  Applicants are interviewed by the Board during the summer.  Applications should be mailed to: Red Mask Players, P.O. Box 814, Danville, IL 61834-0814.  Deadline dates will be posted on our homepage.  Scripts for the forthcoming season are available for in-library reading at the Danville Public Library.

  • Red Mask Director Application (in Microsoft Word format).  The total document runs 12 pages -- 5 pages for the application itself and 7 pages for the Director, Producer, and Stage Manager job descriptions.  Please submit the completed application portion and retain the job descriptions for your reference.

Contact us (redmaskplayers@hotmail.com) with questions about the application process.

HELPING BACKSTAGE

We're always looking for help behind the scenes -- building sets, working box office, ushering, running lights and sound, and more.  To get involved on a show, please talk to the director at auditions, or contact us soon after rehearsals begin.

SEASON MEMBERSHIPS

Season memberships are a great way to support Red Mask and save money at the same time.  Season Memberships to adult shows are available for $35 (or $30 for seniors age 60+; $25 for students).  Season Memberships for groups (6 tickets per show) are $180.  For more information about Season Memberships, call (217) 442-5858.

Season members are eligible to vote for Board Members and receive Asides, our newsletter.

2011-2012 Season Membership brochure/order form (PDF file)

DONATIONS

Donations of money, tools, equipment, props, or in-kind services are welcome.  Please let us know how you'd like to help.

GIFTSTheater painting by Amy Chrisman

Support Red Mask with these great gifts:

Tickets
Why not give your theater-going friends or family members a gift season membership or tickets to a particular show?  Contact us for more information.

Theater Print and Notecards
Danville artist Amy Chrisman has created an attractive watercolor painting of the Kathryn Randolph Theater (right).

High-quality prints of the painting are available for $89, and notecards are available for $2 each or $8 per four-pack.  Prints and notecards are sold during intermissions, or by contacting us.

JEAN LEWIS SCHOLARSHIP

Named after the founder of Red Mask Children's Theater, the Jean Lewis Scholarship is an annual award of $750 to a student planning a career in the theater, performing arts, or a directly related area such as speech or radio/television.  Area high school students as well as university or community college students are eligible to apply.  Applicants will be expected to demonstrate their ongoing interest in theater by their past participation in local theater opportunities. Performing artists will be asked to audition as part of their application.  Along with a completed application, those seeking the scholarship funds must submit two letters of recommendation.  The Scholarship deadline is April 6, 2012.

Guidelines and applications are available for download below, and from guidance counselors, speech teachers, or drama departments at area high schools and from the DACC Communications Department.

Mail completed applications to:

Sue Richter
Red Mask Scholarship Committee
P.O. Box 814
Danville, IL 61834-0814

SUMMER ONE-ACTS

Red Mask occasionally offers a summer season original one-acts.  A contest is held in the months before to select the plays.

The contest is open to high school students through adult writers.  Only unpublished, original plays are considered, and all scripts must be typed.  Plays are judged on originality, quality of writing and adaptability for the Red Mask stage.  Red Mask reserves the right to edit for gratuitous sex, violence or language.  Manuscripts will be returned to the writer if accompanied by self-addressed, stamped envelope.  Red Mask Players claim exclusive rights to the plays for the rehearsal and performance period, after which rights revert to the author.  Winning authors will be furnished with a videotape of the production.