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For schools & universities

Theater software for drama departments and BFAs.

Mainstage, lab, student-directed, and senior showcase — a full academic theater program has distinct demands. Title III accessibility, student-appropriate data, student-friendly pricing, and a workflow a professor can actually teach.

Season overview
Department · Spring 2026 · 4 productions
● ACTIVE
01
She Kills Monsters
Mainstage · Nov 6 – 9
Captioning · Title III
02
BFA Senior Showcase
Black Box · Dec 12
Adjudicating
03
Student-Directed One-Acts
Lab · Feb 15 – 16
Casting
04
The Crucible
Mainstage · Apr 17 – 20
Planned
Before and after

The operational shift.

Most school theaters already have a patchwork of tools. Here's what changes.

Without Cuelora

Three tools, two spreadsheets, one headache

  • Disability Services asking each semester how the department is documenting accommodations
  • Separate tools for BFA auditions, senior showcase, and mainstage — each with a different interface
  • Student TAs managing a password-protected Google Drive of audition tapes
  • No clear process when a student wants to see their own submission data (FERPA)
  • Faculty burning a weekend before every audition round to rebuild the submission form
With Cuelora

One surface, clean data, predictable cost

  • Caption System running on every mainstage, documented automatically for Title III
  • One platform for mainstage, lab, showcase, and student-directed — one interface to teach
  • Student tapes stored with encrypted access, reviewable only by faculty on the panel
  • Students can request their own data exports through a clean self-service page
  • Call templates save across semesters — audition setup takes 15 minutes, not a day
Why Cuelora fits

Three things we do differently for school theaters.

Student-appropriate

student-appropriate data handling. Role-based access so students see their own audition data but not the committee's notes. Designed to be taught as part of stage-management or arts-admin curriculum.

Title III accessibility, documented

Caption System is a defensible 'effective communication' accommodation. The accessibility report gives your disability services office exactly the documentation they need — automatically, per show, per semester.

Education pricing

Verified schools and universities receive an education discount on both products. Faculty admin access and multi-seat student team access on Company.

A typical season

How Cuelora runs alongside your calendar.

Real workflow for a typical school production season — not a sales pitch, just the timing.

1
August · semester prep

Prep the call templates

Faculty pull last year's mainstage audition template, update roles, and publish. Reusable — next semester's audition takes minutes to launch.

2
First week of classes

Mainstage auditions

180 students audition across three productions. Submissions handles scheduling around class conflicts automatically. Callback pools sorted by Friday.

3
Mid-semester

Mainstage runs, captioned

Every mainstage performance is captioned using Caption System. Quarterly reports go directly to Disability Services — Title III documentation, done.

4
End of semester

Senior showcase adjudication

Industry guests run blind review on BFA seniors through Adjudication mode. Consolidated rankings drive the showcase cast list.

What's included

Built for academic theater reality.

Caption System for every production

Mainstage, lab, and student-directed productions all get captioned from the same install. Department pays once, uses forever. Education discount applied at checkout.

Submissions for all seasons

Mainstage, lab, student-directed, senior showcase. One subscription covers your whole academic calendar. Troupe: monthly subscription. Company: monthly subscription. Education discount applied at checkout.

Senior showcase adjudication

Blind review by industry guests, weighted rubrics, consolidated rankings. Drives your senior showcase cast list without the usual closed-door faculty politics.

student-appropriate data handling

Student submission data is treated as educational record. Access logs, exportable student-request responses, and encrypted storage match FERPA expectations.

Reusable semester templates

Save audition calls, rubrics, and email templates once. Reuse them every semester with a single click and a date update. Faculty time back in rehearsal.

Student team access (Company)

Student stage managers, dramaturgs, and production assistants get scoped access to the systems they learn on. Teaching material for arts administration programs.

What we designed for

Academic theater with clear calendar beats: mainstage auditions in week one, senior showcase juries mid-season, Title-III-relevant accessibility documentation every semester. Tools that a professor can teach to stage-management students in a single seminar, and that faculty admins can run without IT escalation.

Pricing math

Typical department setup, by the numbers.

Caption System Pro
Perpetual license · one-time purchase, one venue
TBA
Cuelora TDP Company
Monthly subscription · annual discount available
monthly subscription
Education pricing: Verified schools, colleges, and universities qualify for a discount at checkout. Caption System Core is also available if accessibility reporting and adjudication are not yet needed.
Common questions

Before you talk to us.

How does this integrate with our LMS?

Cuelora is not an LMS integration — it's a production and operations tool. But audition call links can be posted in Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle; and submission data can be exported to any grading system that accepts CSV.

Is this FERPA-compliant?

We treat student audition submissions as educational records. We have role-based access, encrypted storage, and support student data access requests. For FERPA-governed data sharing beyond the department, we recommend consulting your institution's registrar.

Can undergraduate TAs run the Caption System?

Yes — it's a common use case. A student stage manager or assistant stage manager can run cues. We do recommend faculty oversight on the initial import and language settings, but the actual performance operation is a learnable skill.

Do you offer a site license for large departments?

Yes — if you operate multiple venues (main theater, black box, studio), we sell a multi-venue bundle for a multi-venue discount the second and subsequent venues. Email us for a quote if you have 3+ venues.

Can we use this for our touring productions?

Yes. Caption System licenses are tied to an installation, not a fixed location — touring productions installed on a laptop can take that laptop anywhere. The show runs offline, so internet in the touring venue doesn't matter.

Keep reading

Related to your operation.

Your venue

See Cuelora in your house.

Book a 20-minute walkthrough with the founder. We will show you the pieces that matter for your specific operation — and tell you straight if we are not the right fit.