Sounds like the same drama I was in a few years ago...I remember the same stage problem....
Funny story tho...when the selection process was going on the director who was a sub CO said anyone who has ever been DF'd will not be selected for the drama...I knew of at least one who was there that had been and his face dropped. The sub CO said he didn't want to be blacklisted for using wrong people and never allowed to direct a drama again.
Struck me as odd then that the org is so unloving to hold prior sins against someone...that you really never live down being DF'd...ever..to prevent being selected for a drama...and the CO 's acknowledgement that "blacklisting" goes on even in the upper ranks of org....should have woke me up immediately but it took a while longer...
In our drama group since two were df and others lost priveledges...me...I woke up and quit