For Immediate Release
January 30, 2008

MANASSAS –Vpstart Crow Productions is now accepting director proposals for its 15th season. (ALL POSITIONS HAVE BEEN FILLED. - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST.)

Artistic Directors Paul D. Rubenstein and Robert P. Smith are seeking directing proposals for the enhances 2008-2009 season.

All proposals are due no later than 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19, and must include a submission form, which can be downloaded at www.vpstartcrow.com. The submission form includes proposal criteria that all potential directors must follow to be considered.

Interviews will begin immediately thereafter and the 2008-2009 directors will be announced by early March. Proposals may be e-mailed in an attached Microsoft Word document to Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Smith at artistic@vpstartcrow.com (preferred), or mailed to the following address:

Director's Application - Microsoft Word Format

Director's Application - pdf Format

Artistic Director
Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc.
Re: 2008 Season Director Proposals
PO Box 552
Manassas, VA 20108

For more information, please contact Mr. Rubenstein and Mr. Smith at artistic@vpstartcrow.com or (800) 660-8580, or visit www.vpstartcrow.com.

ABOUT VPSTART CROW PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Founded in 1994, Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc. (pronounced “upstart”) is a non-Equity and non-profit professional theatre company dedicated to performing the works of William Shakespeare and other theatre classics. Vpstart Crow’s mission is to produce live theatre as a vital, accessible and exciting part of community life. Employing a resident company of local professional actors and artists of the highest caliber, Vpstart Crow is dedicated to breaking down the barriers between audience and actors in a performance style that is thought-provoking and altogether vpstartling.

The term “vpstart crow” comes from one of Shakespeare’s rival English playwrights, Robert Greene. In his 1592 pamphlet, Groats-Worth Of Wit Bought With A Million Of Repentance, Greene criticizes Shakespeare: “… for there is an vpstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers hart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum (“Johnny-do-it-all” or “Jack-of-all-trades”), is in his owne conceit the onely ‘Shake-scene’ in a countrey.” In fact, Vpstart Crow spells its name with a “v” rather than a “u” in reference to the way the English language was written in Shakespeare’s day.