I AM A GUEST ARTIST

PROCESS FOR BECOMING A GUEST ARTIST

Thank you for your interest in being a guest artist at the 2025 Virginia Thespian Festival at the Capital One Hall & Hilton McLean-Tysons Corner January 9 - 11, 2025! We are excited to have you join us in bringing the knowledge, experience and creativity of the theatre industry to our Virginia Thespian Students and Educators!

Workshop Presenters: If you are an independent guest artist applying to teach workshops, or a representative teaching on behalf of Recruiter Level colleges, conservatories, vendors or sponsors please submit a separate workshop proposal application for each class you are interested in presenting.

Adjudicators: We are also accepting applications for adjudicators with expertise in certain topics to judge individual student events, scholarships and one-acts. Applicants for this position can not be involved in the vendor fair or college audition events due to time/schedule conflicts.

Please complete the appropriate application no later than November 15, 2024. The Yellow Button to the right offers more information on our Guest Artist Pay Scale as well as tips for designing an effective workshop.

**Note that we begin building our schedule matrix prior to the November 15 deadline so earlier applications may have a stronger chance of consideration.

Our staff will notify all applicants of workshop or adjudicator acceptance no later than the week of November 18th, at which point each accepted artist will be asked to return an individual adult registration form and background check to complete registration and contracts will be sent out.

**** Those representing colleges, conservatories, vendors or sponsors who wish to participate in our table fair or college audition events must also submit a separate application linked on the designated webpage under "partners" in the menu above. Representatives of Recruiter-Level Organizations teach in exchange for the waiving of their table registration fees.

APPLY TODAY TO BE A GUEST ARTIST FOR VTF 2025!

2025 Workshop Proposal Application

2025 Adjudicator Application

BACKGROUND CHECKS

****PLEASE NOTE: For safety and security, we require that each workshop presenter fill out the application. We must run background checks on all adults attending Festival.