<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Cleveland Play House (CPH) is seeking an <b>Artistic Associate</b> to join the artistic team for the remainder of the 2020-21 season. This position will be a combination of artistic administration and logistics, dramaturgy, and season planning. <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Responsibilities include: </span></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0in"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Participation in 2021-22 season planning process: reading & evaluating scripts, attending monthly all-staff script forums, attending all season planning council meetings </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Season Planning Logistics: scheduling meetings, correspondence, research projects </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Dramaturgy & artistic support for monthly virtual Theatre Thursdays & 2 special events in the spring </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Planning & logistics for virtual new play development workshops and readings for the Roe Green Fund for New American Plays and annual New Ground Theatre Festival  </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Casting for virtual programming including workshops and monthly Theatre Thursdays </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Co-curation and facilitation of monthly gatherings with CPH affiliated artists </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Attendance at weekly artistic staff meetings and all editorial & events planning meetings <br></span></li></ul><font color="#000000" face="Gotham B, serif" style="font-size:15px"><br></font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Artistic Associate will work with the following groups:</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-size:15px"><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0in"><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Roe Green Fund for New American Plays: in collaboration with the Literary Manager & Resident Dramaturg supporting current round of 5 commissions (40% penned by BIPOC artists) as well as identifying and commissioning the next round of artists, all of whom will be BIPOC writers </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Season Planning: a team made up of 50% or more BIPOC artists (national & local) and CPH staff that focuses on season selection for 2021-22 and beyond </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></li><li><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Artistic Staff & EDI Training Team: a team made up of CPH staff members from the artistic, education, and marketing departments that is working to identify and establish equitable artistic practices and clear accountability structures </span><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">This position will primarily work in collaboration with Literary Manager & Resident Dramaturg, Artistic Producer, and the Artistic Virtual Programs Manager.<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">  </span> </span><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Additional collaborators will include Artistic Director, Director of Education & Artistic Strategies, and Director of Community Programming and Partnerships. </span><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Skills:</span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> ability to deliver feedback in clear, compassionate, and concise manner; analysis, particularly of written materials such as scripts; ability to adopt and write in an organization’s “voice;” meeting facilitation; creative thinking and problem solving; ability to summarize complex ideas; collaboration; time management </span><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Knowledge base: </span></strong><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">new play development & workshop process; familiarity with contemporary theatre artists, especially playwrights & performers; </span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">understanding of how to navigate search engines/archives databases/library catalogs<strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></strong></span><br><br><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Tech Needs: </span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">access to email & phone, access to Zoom & Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word & Excel </span><br><br><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Hours: </span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">work hours will fall between 10 am & 6 pm EST </span><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">             </span>Some weeks will require evening hours (approx. 1-2 times a month) </span><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">             Some weeks may require more than 40 hours and schedule will be adjusted accordingly week prior or after to balance hours </span><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Compensation: </span></strong><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">16K for approx. 40 hours per week for 6 months </span></strong><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Classification: </span></strong><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Full-Time, Temporary</span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Term of Employment: </span></strong><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">January 15, 2021 through June 30, 2021</span></strong><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></b><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">The position can be done remotely.</span></strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br><br><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Reports to: </span></strong><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Literary Manager & Resident Dramaturg</span></strong><strong><span style="margin:0px;padding:0in;border:1pt none windowtext;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></strong><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Cleveland Play House is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. </span><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">CPH is on a journey to becoming an anti-racist theatre that actively promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion. </span><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">To apply, interested applicants should upload a cover letter, resume, and two references as a single PDF at <a href="https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/jobs/openings/artistic-associate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk927313" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/jobs/openings/artistic-associate</a>.  </span><br><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Gotham B",serif;vertical-align:baseline">Please indicate in the cover letter how you heard about this position. </span></li></ul></div>