Playbill Bio Submission Form

1. All cast members, designers, and production leads are welcome to have a bio in the playbill.
2. The size of the cast and crew determines the number of pages in the playbill.  The playbill editor, working with the production team (producer/director), is allowed to edit bios for space reasons. Edits will include changing local theatre names to acronyms.
3. As a community theater, your prior/recent stage credits (including awards/nominations) should be the focus of your bio, but we welcome bios that provide the audience with additional information about your off-stage life (family/work/education/causes/life events/next show).
4. Humorous bios are fine as long as the whole audience understands the joke.
5. ESP gently discourages (and may edit) all "Secret Codes" and excessive adulation on the support of friends, family and other cast/crew.  Please remember, you are writing a bio for the 1000 people in the audience that don't know you. If you desire to thank others in your bio, limit it to one short sentence.
6. Around the beginning of tech week, the playbill editor will try to provide the producer/director/stage manager with a final draft of the playbill for your review and sign-off. 
   1. Please take some time to thoroughly proof-read your bio
   2. Confirm that any edits made to your bio are acceptable to you (list any change requests)
   3. Check that your name is spelled and attributed correctly throughout the playbill (remember to check the cast/crew page as well as your bio).
   4. Are the acronyms in your bio listed correctly in the acronym guide at the back of the playbill?
7. If you do not want a bio in the playbill, please fill out this form and simply tell us that.  Please be aware, if you are in the cast, we may still list your name and photo in the playbill albeit without a bio per your request.
8. Headshots - we prefer to have "recent" and similar production headshot photos in the playbill rather than a random collection of professionally produced headshots.
9. ESP participates in the WATCH adjudication process, so to assist judges we edit our playbills in accordance with the guidelines provided by WATCH.  Crew titles and production elements are listed according to those guidelines. (www.washingtontheater.org)

Your Name (exactly as you want it listed throughout the playbill):
        If your "full name" for your bio is long, do you have an acceptable "short version" for the cast/crew list:

Are you a part of the cast, crew, band or multiple? Cast Crew Band Multiple (cast and crew)

Name of Character(s), Band Instrument or Production Title(s):
 (list all roles as listed in the script, or crew titles)

Example Biography (written in third person, listing prior ESP credits and other recent credits, awards/nominations, other work in theatre/causes, family/life) - Bio length should be similar in length or shorter (~100 words, ~500 characters).

Todd C. Huse (Director) is directing his eighth production at ESP, including "tick,tick...BOOM!", "Accomplice", "The Who's Tommy", "The Rocky Horror Show" and "The Lady's Not for Burning", all of which were recognized by the WATCH Awards and/or the Ruby Griffith Awards.  Todd is the artistic director of ESP, the ESP representative on the WATCH board and part-time website manager for WATCH and ESP.  Originally from suburban Kansas City, Todd received his BA in Theatre from Knox College and moved to the DC area in 1988.  Todd works for SRA International as a systems analyst and lives in a Herndon zip code with his wife, Hilary, and their two pre-schoolers, Cooper and Maggie.

(please place "quotes" around all show names in your bio)

Your Bio (the box below holds 150 characters per line and 5 lines - if you fill it up, your bio is TOO LONG and will be edited by us... but we prefer you do it!) :

Special Instructions/notes (including acronyms you have used that we may not know) about your bio or information in the playbill you want us to know:

Please provide your e-mail address so we can reach you directly with any questions or problems:

Before you hit submit, have you double-checked your bio information above? If so, type YES (in all caps) in this box: