Ohio Shakespeare Festival in Akron, Ohio seeks to immediately hire the following positions in technical work and front of house work. www.ohioshakespeare.com
Technical Intern
- Full time, $300/week; beginning late May, ending mid August
- No housing available for this position
- This paid position is ideal for someone who would like to learn more about how an outdoor professional theatre operates from the technical side. While the intern will assist all tech managers throughout the summer, they will also be allowed the opprotunity to learn each managers’ craft. The Tech Intern will assist managers in many ways, including but not necessarily limited to, the following throughout the summer season:
- Set construction—assist with simple construction, load in/out during build and strike
- Lighting —assist with lighting package installation and strike, including focusing and other basic electrics work
- Wardrobe—assist with laundry, loading and unloading costumes, picking up/dropping off dry cleaning, potentially some basic mending
- House Management—assist as needed
- Stage Management—be the primary contact between stage management and greenroom/dressing room during performance
- Properties—assist in gathering/creating props
- Administration—assist as needed
- Ideal candidates will:
- Have a passion for learning and participating in the technical aspects of theatre
- Be detail oriented and organized
- Be able to arrange their own transportation
- Be willing to lift heavy objects
- Be willing to work outdoors
- Have a friendly and positive attitude
- Have day and evening availability (hours will never exceed 40/week; Mondays always off entirely; additional off days are guaranteed but scattered throughout the summer)
- Be flexible and willing to fill in wherever is helpful each day
- Ages 16 and older may apply.
- Actors/Designers working with Ohio Shakespeare in summer 2022 may not apply as the hours will conflict.
- Questions may be sent to tess@ohioshakespeare.com
- TO APPLY: Send relevant work experience and a short paragraph describing your reason for applying to tess@ohioshakespeare.com
Scenic Carpenter
- Part time, weekly pay based on applicant’s level of skill and availability; 5 weeks in May/June, 2 weeks in August; potentially flexible start and end dates
- No housing available for this position
- This paid position is ideal for someone with intermediate to advanced carpentry skills. This person will assist the Production Manager/Master Carpenter and participate in the construction and then the strike of the outdoor summer set.
- Ideal candidates will:
- Have intermediate to advance carpentry skills.
- Be willing to lift heavy objects
- Be willing to work outdoors
- Have a friendly and positive attitude
- Ages 16 and older may apply.
- Actors/Designers working with Ohio Shakespeare in summer 2022 may apply as the hours do not conflict.
- Questions may be sent to tess@ohioshakespeare.com
- TO APPLY: Send relevant work experience/references and a short paragraph describing your reason for applying to tess@ohioshakespeare.com
Merchandise Tent
- Part time, $15/hour
- Thursdays-Sundays 5:30pm-9:30pm, July 7 - August 15
- Three part time positions for the summer box office are available, and will include the following duties:
- Working directly under the House Manager and assisting him as needed on show nights.
- Open and set up the merchandise tent each evening
- Keep inventory of stock
- Sell merchandise before show and during intermission
- Ideal candidates will:
- Have few or no conflicts
- Be gracious and patient with patrons
- Be able to arrange their own transportation
- Be friendly and positive with other OSF staff
- Be comfortable with simple tablet skills or willing to learn
- Be punctual and consistent
- Be willing to work outdoors
- Questions may be sent to tess@ohioshakespeare.com
- TO APPLY: Send relevant work experience/references and a short paragraph describing your reason for applying to tess@ohioshakespeare.com