Women’s Theatre Alliance Presents Actors’ Scene Showcase

The Showcase features 20 actors in ten two-actor scenes that were chosen by a panel of local theatre directors at auditions in October. This year, 60 actors in 30 scenes competed for the ten spots in the Showcase. The ten wining scenes will perform for an invited audience of agents, casting directors and theatre companies, as well as the general public.

The Actors’ Scene Showcase is one of the WTA’s keystone events and has been a great success for the WTA and its participants for 15 years. The Showcase serves as a springboard for many acting careers. According to Women’s Theatre Alliance President Katie Carey Govier, “Some of Chicago’s finest young theatre artists get their first exposure at this event.” This year another memorable group of 20 talented actors, both women and men, will be featured in a wide variety of scenes.

The Women's Theatre Alliance of Chicago is a membership organization devoted to supporting, promoting and showcasing Chicago's female theatre artists. The WTA is a union of theatre artists (female and male) and theatre organizations which support women, helping to promote leadership and provide opportunity within the theatre community. The WTA works to build a unified voice so that we can more effectively be advocates for women in theatre, publicize and promote our members and increase positive public awareness of our goals.

Many successful local playwrights such as Mia McCullough and Margaret Lewis have participated in the WTA’s New Play Development Workshop, which is held every spring.

Scott Dray

This is Scott Dray’s seventh year producing the Actors’ Scene Showcase for the Women’s Theatre Alliance, where he serves as Secretary/Treasurer on the Executive Board. He also produces independently as Scott Dray Productions, and those productions have included the Jeff Citation Winning Misery with Pyewacket at the Heartland Studio and Bailiwick. His collaboration with the Strange Tree Group resulted in two productions of Emily Schwartz plays, “The Dastardly Ficus and Other Comedic Tales of Woe and Misery” and “Funeral Wedding (The Alvin Play),” both at the Athenaeum Theatre.

Katie Carey Govier

Katie Carey Govier is president of the Women’s Theatre Alliance. She is a local actor, director, and producer, and was recently named Managing Director of Camenae Ensemble Theatre. Katie has worked with many Chicago theatre companies, including Stockyards Theatre Project, BooYa Productions, and Noble Fool Theatre. -- www.theatrebuildingchicago.org