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CURRENT OPENINGS

Production Staff

FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER

Dates: May 27 – June 24, 2025
Rate: $2,200 Flat Rate
Hours: Evening

Description: As House Manager during the run of the show, you will oversee a team of five House Management Interns to ensure the smooth operation of all of the day to day front of house aspects. This includes maintaining a clean site, working with Box Office staff nightly on seating guests, ensuring that all facilities (portable toilets, concessions, eating areas, etc.) are ready for guests use each night. Communication and customer service skills are essential. The Festival is an entirely outdoor event and weather conditions vary. Applicant should be ready to work in heat, rain and direct sunlight.

For this role you will need customer service experience. You should be enthusiastic about the work of the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and eager to interact with our guests, interns, staff, and volunteers. In your role as House Manager you will occasionally have to respond to customer complaints, small security issues, and small medical issues. You should be able to maintain a friendly demeanor in the circumstances and always be prepared to represent the Festival well.

HOUSE MANAGEMENT INTERN

Dates: May 27 – June 23, 2025
Rate: $500 stipend, no housing provided.

Description: This internship is a crash course on outdoor event operations and theater house management. You will be involved in the onsite operations of St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s production in Shakespeare Glen from start to finish. You will help set up the front-of-house area, learn festival operations and emergency procedures, help coordinate volunteers, and work directly with guests to help ensure they have the best possible experience. The expectation is to be as each performance to ensure a safe experience for our audience and a successful show each night. You will report directly to the House Manager but will also interact with the Box Office Manager, Associate Producer, and Director of Marketing frequently.

There will also be a weekly talk-back exclusively for house management interns with a different member of the festival’s staff and the show’s crew where you can learn more about the industry and make new connections.

TO APPLY:

Send your resume and brief description about yourself to Colin O’Brien (colin@stlshakes.org) with the role in the subject line.

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Internships & Apprenticeships

Summer Teaching Artist Apprentice: The St. Louis Shakespeare Festival offers summer intern opportunities for young adults (17 and older) to join our Summer Shakespeare Studio program as a Teaching Artist Apprentice. Interns will work closely with professional artists in a fun and creative environment, developing leadership skills, arts education classroom experience and theater training while assisting in the Festival’s 20+ year history of theatre education for students ages 9-13.

This is an enriching opportunity for older high school or college students passionate about theatre education and working with middle schoolers.

Pay: $500 Stipend or commensurate NHS/Volunteer Hours
Camp Duration: June 2-27, 8a-4p, plus one apprentice introduction session.
To Apply: Email camp director Hannah Baartman (hannah@stlshakes.org) with a short cover letter (3 sentences on why you’d like to participate) and/or Resume.

St. Louis Shakespeare Festival is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has a strong commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion in our hiring process, as well as in all areas of our work. We believe that diverse ideas, cultures, and traditions are vital assets that enrich the programs and productions we produce for our community. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.