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THE DEPOT THEATRE, Westport, NY

SPT Tier V pending AEA contract approval
Shami J. McCormick, Artistic Director
Chris Casquilho, Managing Director

Casting
2010 Roles TBD

Production Positions
2010

Box Office Manager - July - September 2010 - $295* per week
Equity Summer Stock. 136 seats, 5-6 shows per week. Housing provided, $130 travel expenses reimbursed. Friendly, respectful atmosphere. Appx 32 hours/week average (varies from 25-40 hours). PC savvy required, Easyware TotalInfo knowledge prefered. Reports to managing director. Send cover letter and resume via email.

Staff Bios

Shami J. McCormick (Artistic Director) - Shami has been the Artistic Director of the Depot Theatre since 1980 and is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors.  As a professional actress, Shami trained at both the National Theatre Institute and the Hartman Theatre Conservatory after completing her undergraduate degree at Kenyon College (where she majored in Religion and where she later received an Honorary Doctorate in Theatre).  She has appeared in a variety of plays including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Waiting For Godot, Three Sisters and La Ronde as well as in musicals such as Tom Jones and Olympian Games.  Since settling in Westport, Shami has performed in several productions at the Depot Theatre, most notably in The Lion in Winter, Absurd Person Singular, Harvey, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Arsenic and Old Lace and Collected Stories. Her directing credits include productions of Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls, Our Town, Down in the Valley, On the Town and several children's theatre shows.  Shami began her Adirondack theatre-producing career with the North Country Theatre Company in 1978.  In addition, she has been an adjunct instructor of Theatre at SUNY Plattsburgh and a past director of the Adirondack Center Museum where she also served as Essex County Historian.  Shami has served as a NYSCA grant panelist for the Theatre, Individual Artists and Capital Aid Programs as well as a Panelist for the Vermont Council for the Arts, the Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks and the New York State Alliance for Arts Education. Shami is very proud of all that the Depot Theatre has accomplished and grateful to founder Carol Buchanan, the Theatre's first Artistic Director, Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh, and the many artists and patrons who have helped make it an exciting place to experience live theatre.  Shami is a full-time resident of Westport, NY where she lives with her husband and several hundred pounds of Newfoundlands.

Chris Casquilho (Managing Director) - hails from the Big Sky state of Montana, where he cut his teeth working with the Missoula Children's Theatre as an instructor and custodian. He performed over the years in Montana with the Fort Missoula Theatre Company, the Illustrious Virginia City Players, and the Firehouse 5 Playhouse/Crazy Mountain Productions. Chris has worked Off-Broadway as a carpenter, electrician, technical director, and production manager, as well as serving a turn as the technical director at SUNY Potsdam in 2003. He helped launch a new performing space and shop for the Civic Theatre of Allentown, Pennsylvania,  and co-founded the Fantod Theatre company in Chicago in 1998 - dedicated to developing and premiering new works by Chicago playwrights. Before coming to work at the Depot, he served as the Director of Development and, later, as the Executive Director for the Firehouse 5 Playhouse/Crazy Mountain Productions in Livingston, Montana - just north of Yellowstone National Park. He has served as a grant panelist for the Arts Council of the Northern Adirondacks, and he sits on the board of the Champlain Valley Film Society and the steering committee of the Emerging Upsate Arts Professionals.

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