Reports To: Education Department Manager and Artistic Producing Director(s)
Job Type: REMOTE Hybrid. Hourly. Hours per week will vary depending on bookings.
Rate: $22 hour / Part Time
Start Date: ongoing
Who We Are
Founded in 1973, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is an award-winning classical theatre company nestled into the hillsides of bucolic Topanga Canyon. Our programming features a summer repertory season featuring Shakespeare classics and contemporary plays, vibrant educational programs, an acting academy and deep community roots in a mature botanical garden under graceful California Live Oaks. Our mission is to engage, educate and entertain audiences of all ages by presenting thought-provoking classics, socially relevant plays, and education programs in a beautiful, natural outdoor sanctuary for the arts. By passing on a sense of history to young people and adults alike, great works of art inform their present and inspire their future. A true renaissance theatre, Theatricum offers a diversity of programming from Shakespeare to poetry to folk music to the development of future playwrights – all to help understand the world we live in and to embrace our shared humanity. Each summer the canyon comes alive with a gregarious company of actors and musicians and over the years our stage has been graced by the greatest folk artists and actors of their time, from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Wendy Malick, Ewan McGregor and Earnestine Phillips.
What We Do
Each summer we produce a full classical summer repertory season on our mainstage, and in our second stage, the Mark Taper Children’s Pavilion, we feature summer camps, classes and children’s programming. Throughout the year, we offer Acting Classes, Classroom Enrichment and tour smaller versions of our classical repertory shows to schools, parks, museums and senior centers.
Classroom Enrichment refers to a diverse menu of arts education programs offered to schools by The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Programs include assembly performances; workshops; short and long term residencies. Most Classroom Enrichment programs occur at the school site although occasionally programming involves a performance or class on-site at Theatricum.
About the Role
The Classroom Enrichment Manager will facilitate and manage our adult professional actors as they present acting workshops in Singing, Dancing, Stage Combat, Scansion, Rhetoric, Commedia, and Improvisation as well as present touring productions from classical works including Americana, Poetry, Shakespeare, Civil Rights and many more historical presentations. Residencies also include creating productions with students. You will hire, train and manage teaching artists in the implementation of the program, aligning with the institutional pedagogy. Reports to the Managing Director and works closely with Artistic Producing Directors to staff teachers and select artists for assemblies, performances and workshops. Act as Stage Manager for Classroom Enrichment Assemblies. Manage Artistic Residencies.
Useful Experience/Skills
- Theatre experience as a stage manager.
- 3 years experience as a teaching artist and/or classroom teacher.
- Understanding of Common Core standards.
- Facility with using Excel, Google drive, Zoom and other online organizational tools.
- Proven experience guiding artists and students with compassion and integrity.
- Curiosity, compassion and innovative problem solving.
- Ability to lift 15 pounds, stand, sit and enjoy our outdoor venue which at times includes inclement weather such as rain, cold, heat and the creatures that reside in our native habitat.
Theatricum Botanicum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we strive to ensure that the content, methodologies, and teaching artists for our arts education programs reflect and support our diverse student audiences. Our work culture is inclusive, responsive and supportive regardless of race, nationality, disability, education level, religion, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, social and economic status. We value integrity, passion and a strong moral compass. We welcome you to join our team.
To Apply
Please combine your cover letter, resume and references into a single PDF document. Email your application to Carolyn@theatricum.com with the subject line: CE Manager Application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.