The Directors Company to Produce Richard Rodgers Award Staged Reading

The Directors Company to produce staged reading presentations of Cheer Wars , book & lyrics by Gordon Leary, music by Karlan Judd. Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award for Staged Readings administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters

As the former captain and current coach of the New London Lady Leopard Varsity Cheer Squad, Doretha Bolingbroke will do anything to keep the cheer bloodline intact. Her daughter Halle is poised to become captain, but when Doretha's old rival Nuella Percy returns from exile with her own cheerleading-machine daughter Charmain, the women must wage an epic battle for control of the squad and cheerdom itself. Inspired by Henry IV, Part 1 and the true story of Wanda Holloway. 

Presentations in July 2010.

Specific dates, casting and location to be announced.

About The Directors Company

The Directors Company, whose most recent production Irena's Vow, transferred to Broadway last spring, is a not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent, for the American theatre public. The Directors Company mentors and supports emerging artists in the development of original theatre works from inception to production, providing artistic and dramaturgical guidance to promising, new theatre artists and their projects.