Directing Amateur Musical Theatre

This book is an absolute necessity for anyone directing (or hoping to direct) AmDram or community theatre! Working on the Disney+ series Encore!, I discovered firsthand how special the required skills are when mounting musicals with amateur casts. This wonderful and exhaustive book covers everything you could possibly need to know about this tricky – but just as often magical – theatrical medium. * Adam Wachter, Music Director/Author/Composer *A handy resource to have to hand when taking on a new amateur musical project, particularly for inexperienced directors who can check in throughout the production process. And for those with a few more director credits under their belts, there is still plenty to appreciate. * Theatre and Tonic *

Dom O’Hanlon is a director of musical theatre who has over fifteen years of experience directing and working within amateur theatre in the UK and USA. His experience spans university and college productions, summer camp and summer stock, educational and TIE musicals as well as many London and regional amateur theatre societies and companies. He has worked in a range of capacities on productions with amateur performers from ages 6 to 70 in all manners of spaces from traditional theatres to outdoor arenas and converted swimming pools and on a range of work from classic to new musicals. He holds an MA Distinction in Text and Performance from RADA and Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is currently a Senior Publisher of Plays and Musical Theatre at Methuen Drama.