(since 1998)
Every year, MainStreet Evaluations selects three musicals to receive a Directors' Choice Award. Each submission is read by two members of the Evaluation Committee who each grade the work. Submissions that receive two qualifying grades become DCA semi-finalists and are conveyed to a special committee comprised of 5-10 Evaluators. These individuals read and rank the semi-finalists according to preference and the six top-ranked shows (DCA finalists) are conveyed to MainStreet’s Guest Artistic Director, a prominent musical theater director, who selects the three DCA “winners”.
Guest Artistic Directors serve for one year. DCA winners receive staged readings in all MainStreet Festivals.
Guest Artistic Directors
(since 1998)
Submissions that receive two qualifying grades (DCA semi-finalists) are conveyed to a special committee comprised of 5-10 Evaluators who annually read and rank them according to preference. The six top-ranked shows (DCA finalists) are conveyed to MainStreet’s Guest Artistic Director, a prominent musical theater director, who selects the three DCA “winners”.
Guest Artistic Directors serve for one year. DCA winners receive staged readings in all MainStreet Festivals.
2008
Gabriel Barre
2007
Stafford Arima
2006
Charles Repole
2005
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Kathleen Marshall & Patricia Birch
2004
John Rando
2003
Gabriel Barre
2001
Martin Charnin
2000
Walter Bobbie
1999
Patricia Birch