"It's hard to understand what their definition of theater professional is if they kicked me off."
He thought it might help him meet theatre professionals and directors.
But as the theater professionals will tell you - if they talk long enough - chemistry is often made, not born.
Awards will be selected by a committee of theater professionals.
There were multiple readings of each by 80 theater professionals.
From 1992 up to his death in 1999, Lébl worked as a theatre professional.
We love her to death, the theater professionals say.
We are told, for instance, that this year the judges "included four members of the public and five theatre professionals".
These workshops are taught by high school teachers, college professors and theater professionals.
Winners were selected by a total of 705 theater professionals and journalists.