Players is Montclair State University's student-run theatre organization. Our office is Student Center room 111.

 

Growing ever-closer to being a century old, Players was founded in 1937 to give MSU students the opportunity to create theatre. In the early 1970s, Players became a Class One Organization of the Student Government Association (SGA, Inc.), which it remains to this day. 

 

General-Member meetings are every Monday at 5:00pm in the Commuter Lounge (Rocky's Lounge / Student Center room 126.)  

 

Players has a wide scope of productions each year; there are four main stage shows - a drama, a comedy, a classic, and a musical, in addition to an annual shadow-cast performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, several cabaret nights and talent shows, student-written one-acts, workshops, dance shows, and M.I.L.F. (Montclair Improv League and Friends.) With such variety, there's always something of which to be a part. 

 

Due to the complete student-run nature of our organization, it requires all sorts of students with all different talents to have the club running at its best. Members have the opportunity to write, direct, act, sing, dance, stage manage, choreograph, design lighting, design sound, play instruments, make costumes, do makeup, and display talents of all different natures.

 

Another great part of Players is that you can be as involved or un-involved as you want and still consider yourself a member. Attendance to general member meetings is by no means mandatory, and we require very little of our members, but there is incentive to participate -- those who attend at least three meetings, or are involved in some way with any of our shows will have the opportunity at the end of the year to go to Banquet. 

 

If you're less interested in having an active role in putting on the show, and more interested in going to see the shows - that's awesome, too! Without an audience, we wouldn't have nearly as much to be working toward. Every Players show has completely free admission. We do have to abide by fire capacity, so there is sometimes limited space, so a safe bet is to arrive to shows slightly earlier than "on time." In addition, every director picks a charity of their choice to collect voluntary donations for at the end of each performance.