Yes. This happens all the time in the profession and one of the things we hope to teach is how to invest in a project that wasn’t your first choice. Remember, we said that you were required to direct one of the readings. Hopefully everyone will be able to pair off organically, but if playwrights and directors have not partnered up themselves by Wednesday morning, the program director will make those pairings and that decision will be final. We only have six weeks and there is a lot more to work on during our summer session than the festival readings. And, all the directors, playwrights, and even actors are new to this kind of work, or they wouldn’t be doing the program. It very well may be that how you go about selecting creative partners will change as a result of the training and a project that you weren’t excited about your first year might be exactly the kind of thing you want to work on by the end of your second year. We have a whole series of structured exercises to help our students find effective strategies for working together in a variety of ways under a variety of conditions.
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