The author brings a career of academic and professional directing experience to inform readers how to select, prepare, and mount a production for the stage. At the same time, he expresses the disciplines, joys, and rigors of the faith-based walk as a framework for this creative journey. The aesthetic requisites for stage directing are combined with an exploration of what it means to be a practicing artist under God’s creative mandate. The author demonstrates how one’s worldview as a Christian finds reflection in a world of visual and aural metaphors within a stage production.

Endorsements

“This book is not only an insightful guide to the art of play direction from a Christian perspective, but it is also a book about leadership, which is what good direction is really all about. Elvgren’s years of practical experience and insight are present on every page. Every faith-based university theatre program in America needs to make this book required reading for their student directors.”

—Frank Mihelich, Artistic Director, New Threads Theatre Company

“Gillette Elvgren is a visionary director and a prolific playwright, a man of the theatre who is also a man of God. Throughout my creative life the energy and imagination of his work and ideas have been an ongoing inspiration. This book is a tremendous gift to further generations of theatre artists, a concrete and specific expression of the breadth of experience and Spirit-fired passion that have fueled his own theatrical calling and inspired many others in theirs.”

—Ron Reed, founding Artistic Director, Pacific Theatre

“Gillette Elvgren has delivered a treat for anyone interested in the theater! The generosity of his wisdom, faith, and experience makes the book a remarkable symposium, memoir, and meditation.”

—Robert Smyth, producing Artistic Director, Lamb’s Players Theatre