Think you have what it takes to be a director or stage manager of an award-winning one-woman play or new Christmas play?

Submit a resume to Jayme Kilburn at  jkilburn@strandtheatercompany.org by Friday, October 1, 2010. Please indicate which show you are interested in (A Peppermint Patty Christmas or The Year of Magical Thinking) and what interests you in the piece. Interviews will be conducted October 4-8, 2010 from 5:30 to 7pm. Rehearsals for all shows are held at the Strand Theater, located at 1823 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md.; weeknights between 7 and 10pm and weekends as needed. Actual schedule is dependent upon the director and cast / crew. Stage managers receive a small stipend.

A Peppermint Patty Christmas
By: Kate Bishop
Dec. 2-18, 2010
A Peppermint Patty Christmas is brought to you by local playwright, Charm City Kitty, and lesbian activist, Kate Bishop. Patricia dreads going home for the holidays. It seems her winter gloom descends like the dancing robot Santas and the light-up Messiahs, earlier and earlier every year. But this year, she's going to set a different dinner table. Patricia made a promise to herself, her girlfriend, and her therapist that this is the year — no matter how much her mom tries to keep conversation meteorological in nature — this year she's going to try something new. She will tell the truth. The whole truth. And nothing. But. The truth.

The Year of Magical Thinking
By: Joan Didion
Feb. 3-19, 2011
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play.