Q; How do I get involved as an actor?

A: If you’re an actor whose a member or Equity or a professional playwright, simply contact us and we’ll work you in. We have negotiated a special agreement with Equity under which we are proud to collaborate with professional actors who might not be able to work in as small, raw and accessible an environment as the Thirst project manages. More specifically, we do not audition, but rather take any and all Equity members, match them up with a suitable role and send them off on their performing way. Such is our faith in our craft and colleagues.

Q: What’s a professional playwright?

A: Basically it’s the same thing as a professional actor, but on paper. Only, there’s not really a parallel to Actor’s Equity for playwrights. The need is the same: artists who rely on their craft for a living and are therefore usually unable to partake in smaller, faster projects like Thirst. The nuances of “professional playwright” however are assessed on a playwright by playwright basis. If you think you fit this model, please contact us and we’ll get to know you better.

Playwrights that work with Thirst do not submit their work to us beforehand. We believe in the artist and do not want to judge him or her by her work. That means we do not jury scripts, but rather we jury people. Once signed up, we send you off, you write, we do it. That’s that. Hopefully it’s freeing.