Class Guidelines
Auditions & Casting
General Guidelines
Student Involvement
Parental Involvement
Auditions
MoezArt Productions is an educational organization. Although quality performance is one of our goals, education will always be number one. For our performance classes, an audition is required for participation. MoezArt Productions caters exclusively to homeschoolers during the school year. However, a director has the right to include a non-homeschooler if they see the need.
Casting
As much as possible, we seek to give everyone good parts which will increase their abilities in drama. We will try to give every student at least one good role, and by that we mean, at least secondary lead (i.e.: Rohlf in the Sound of Music) before they graduate. Casting is a challenging and delicate business that is very difficult to understand. We ask that you be understanding and supportive of the decisions that are made, knowing that we make them for the good of the entire production and taking into consideration many factors unknown to those outside of the directing staff. If you have questions about the casting decisions that are made, you can email those questions to the director and the best explanation possible will be given. However, the directing staff stands behind the decisions that are made and the attempt to change previous decisions will not be successful.
We reserve the right to pre-cast, if we see the need, and to ask a student to step down if they are not fulfilling their commitment. Drama is a privilege and those who see it as such, and work accordingly, will go far. The characteristics that we look for are as follows:
1. Directability: The willingness to be directed, try new things, trust the director and step out of your comfort zone.
2. Willingness: An attitude that says, “I will do whatever it takes to be successful and to grow as an artist.”
3. Passion: A love of the arts and a desire to honor God first with the talents and abilities He has given you. This is demonstrated by putting your heart and soul into what you do knowing that you do it not for the praise of man but for the glory of God.
4. Self-Discipline: Making a commitment to do the best job you can do, regardless of the circumstances or cost to yourself.
5. Integrity: Interacting with authority and your peers with honesty. Following through with your personal responsibilities for the good of the group.
6. Humility: "We need to regard ourselves with sound judgment. True humility means having an accurate view of ourselves, thinking we’re no more or less than we are. We must know our strengths. We must know our weaknesses. We must know what we’re good at, and accept what we’re not good at." - The Heart of the Artist by Rory Noland
7. Previous roles in MoezArt Productions
8. Age and seniority within MoezArt Productions.
9. Attitude and effort in previous productions.
