For Immediate Release
November 19, 2010

Director, Bob Smith, is seeking staff and crew members for The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Bob is in immediate need of a Stage Manager, Producer, and Assistant Stage Manager. Other positions on the crew will be available also, but these need to be filled first.

Performances will be at:
Hylton Performing Arts Center
Gregory Family Theatre
10960 George Mason Circle
Manassas, VA 20110
Map/Directions

Persons interested in these positions should contact Bob at bobsmith@vpstartcrow.com.

Auditions will be held in February and Performances are May 6th– May 15th

For more information, please contact Vpstart Crow at info@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.