And having the stamina to do what people won't do for free. Well, actors are easy to find, because actors are willing to work for free. The difficult thing is finding people to do the technical work, to do the publicity type work to do design work. Because people who do that in town, they all do that either for their living, or they do it because they're studying, and they don't have the time to do it outside of what they're studying. Or the Experience.
Actors do it for the experience.
And for their resume. To put in their resume. The plays I'm doing now are written by Douglas Mitchell, who's a Rice University Professor and also a playwright. They were done for the Edward Albee Workshop. Edward Albee is a three-time Pulitzer Prize Winning playwright who teaches at the University, who I work for half of the year when he's in town, producing his works.