Producing Artistic Director

OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATRE (OCT) invites innovative, hard-working, and charismatic leaders deeply invested in youth and family programming to present themselves as candidates to serve as Producing Artistic Director. The Producing Artistic Director will lead a team of passionately committed staff and work with a fiercely dedicated Board of Directors all focused on an exciting future for OCT. The opportunity to institute change and reinvention of how OCT executes on its mission and vision will be a chief part of the next Producing Artistic Director’s guiding set of core responsibilities. The Producing Artistic Director will understand the importance of creative storytelling alongside dynamic education programming and will find ways to represent the significance of those key components of OCT’s operational focus. A talent for balancing creativity with a dedication to fiscal and organizational rigor will guide the Producing Artistic Director in leading a company built-to-last even in the most challenging environments. The Producing Artistic Director will be a builder, someone who can see tremendous opportunity in challenging situations and find ways to coalesce interest and resources around the creation of innovative systems, processes, and collaborations. As OCT responds to the dynamic changes in the field of theatre for families and youth and important considerations around inclusivity, access, and equity in our world, the Producing Artistic Director will center making OCT led experiences fully open and welcoming for audiences, artists, students, staff, and volunteers. A full position description may be found here: https://mcaonline.com/searches/producing-artistic-director-oct

OCT was created by Sondra Pearlman as the "Theatre for Young People" under the auspices of the Portland Civic Theatre in 1988. When Portland Civic Theatre closed its doors in 1990, Pearlman formed Oregon Children's Theatre with the goal of providing children their first exposure to theater and the performing arts through field trip performances. Since that start, the company has grown and evolved by adding public family performances and thriving arts education programs. Since 1991, OCT has been a resident company at Portland’5 Centers for the Arts (stylized with that moniker due to its five performing spaces located within the center). All OCT Main Stage productions are performed in Portland’5 Centers for the Arts’ 850-seat Newmark Theater or 304-seat Winningstad Theatre. YP Company performances are presented at various locations throughout the city. OCT Acting Academy classes are held at Curious Comedy Theater and Multnomah Arts Center. More information can be found on their website: https://www.octc.org/

Salary: $95,000