
Be part of our inaugural New Works program with Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical! CDT will spend its 2026 season investing in the development of this piece, leading up to its culminating workshop production in September, featuring local Capital Region talent.
All roles available. Seeking college-aged performers or high school upperclassmen for workshop production of this original musical. To submit, please complete the form linked below and include a self-tape featuring:
Submissions should be edited together as one video shared with a cloud-based storage link or via YouTube. Email Artistic Director Brady Walsh with questions or additional inquiries.

Most recently, Carson Crow served as the Associate Director on Gypsy on Broadway. He has also assisted George C. Wolfe on the Netflix feature-film Rustin. Recently he has directed Tomorrow (The Players Theatre) The General (The Chain Theatre) Admissions (International Human Rights Arts Festival ) Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical (The Green R
Most recently, Carson Crow served as the Associate Director on Gypsy on Broadway. He has also assisted George C. Wolfe on the Netflix feature-film Rustin. Recently he has directed Tomorrow (The Players Theatre) The General (The Chain Theatre) Admissions (International Human Rights Arts Festival ) Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical (The Green Room 42)
He has produced Torn Out Theater's production of Antigonick by Anne Carson (The Center at West Park), directed and edited the short film Between Here and Where We Are (Digital Dramatists), and directed Daybreak, a new musical reading.
Other directing credits include: Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane and John and Jen by Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald at Ball State University, PA's for Ghost Lights: Reclaiming Theatre in the Age of AIDS (a six-part filmed docuseries). He has worked as an Administrative Coordinator and Apprentice in the Juilliard School's Drama Division and was the Artistic and International Intern at the Theatre Communication Group. Bachelor of Science in Direction from Ball State University.

Erin J. Reifler (she/her) is a New York-based composer/lyricist, conductor, and copyist. With collaborator Zonia Tsang, Dramatists Guild Fellowship Finalists, New Voices Project Merit Award Winners in collaboration with Disney Imagineering, Civilians R&D Group Finalists, Moxie Arts Incubator Finalists. Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical with c
Erin J. Reifler (she/her) is a New York-based composer/lyricist, conductor, and copyist. With collaborator Zonia Tsang, Dramatists Guild Fellowship Finalists, New Voices Project Merit Award Winners in collaboration with Disney Imagineering, Civilians R&D Group Finalists, Moxie Arts Incubator Finalists. Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical with collaborator Kevin Renn played a sold-out concert at the Green Room 42 and is available for licensing. She was the first Music Supervisor for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Music Theater Conference. Selected music team credits include The Great Gatsby (Broadway, West End, Seoul), Shucked (Broadway, National Tour), Paradise Square (Broadway), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (MTC), Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova), and Cyrano (Daryl Roth Theatre). BA: Brown University. MFA: NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. @erinjreifler www.erinjreifler.com

Kevin Renn (he/him) is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. Some of his works including BLACKS + PHATS, Jungle Juice, Location, Location, Location, and Padiddle have been developed with New York Theatre Workshop, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Out of the Box Theatrics, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Music Theatre of Connecticut
Kevin Renn (he/him) is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. Some of his works including BLACKS + PHATS, Jungle Juice, Location, Location, Location, and Padiddle have been developed with New York Theatre Workshop, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Out of the Box Theatrics, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Music Theatre of Connecticut, and more. His essay "The Manny Diaries" was published in The New York Times, and is now available for listening on the Modern Love podcast ('Do It, I Dare You'). Other credits include: Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, Austin Film Festival (Semi-Finalist). Kevin has been an artist in residence at The Sable Project, and a playwriting fellow at MacDowell.

The rehearsal hall closes in an hour, and the BFA musical theatre students desperately need one final rehearsal before their morning flight to NYC, after all, tomorrow is their college Senior showcase. But when their aloof professor is nowhere to be found, the class is forced to take both matters into their own hands and their artistic fu
The rehearsal hall closes in an hour, and the BFA musical theatre students desperately need one final rehearsal before their morning flight to NYC, after all, tomorrow is their college Senior showcase. But when their aloof professor is nowhere to be found, the class is forced to take both matters into their own hands and their artistic futures as well. Showcase: A Rehearsal Musical examines the hilarity of being a performer, pressures of the industry, and the joy of what it means to dream big-all while crossing your fingers in the hopes that it comes true.