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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteers are our building blocks. The Whidbey Playhouse could not function without them. We are all volunteers and we would love to have more!
Would you like to get involved?
If you are interested in helping The Whidbey Playhouse in any capacity please let us know. We now have a data base for all volunteers. Your name will not be lost...it WILL be used! Everyone is important and we could use all the help we can get.
Here are some of the areas in which we could use help:
- Set construction (anyone can help)
- Theatre clean up
- House Crew (ushers & concessions)
- Acting
- Costumes and Props
- House Manager/Ticket sales, afternoons and in the evenings of the nights of performances
Please call 360 679-2237 and leave your name, number & area you'd like to help. This information will then get to the person in charge of those jobs and they will contact you!
Join our Volunteers
Whidbey Playhouse has always depended upon its volunteers to continue its operation--your services are needed. If you can spare some time to serve the Theatre, here are some of the jobs that need filling:
House Manager - This is the person in charge of the "Front of the House" on a single night of play performances.--whose job it is to look after the needs of our audience. Training for this position is available through the Playhouse office. House Manager is responsible for running the “Front of House”. On show nights he or she will oversee box office ticket sales and distribution, answer patron inquiries, coordinates ushers, and works with the stage manager to coordinate the opening the house. They remain available throughout the show in the lobby area to answer telephone calls and respond to inquiries, and close up the house at the end of the performance. Requires a training class. Call for details.
Host/Hostess - The people who serve coffee, and refreshments at intermission, and do nice things for the audience on any specific night in the run of a play.
Ticket collectors/ushers/etc - Assist the House Manager, show patrons to their seats, help answer phone calls.
Advertising and Promotion - we need someone to market Whidbey Playhouse
ACTORS in plays. We present at least 5 different plays each year, plus some off-season shows, and other entertainments. To see what's coming up click AUDITIONS.
BACKSTAGE we're always looking for people to work as:
Stage Hands, Sewing, Painting, Prop gathering, Light and sound operators
Stage Manager
This person helps make sure on show nights that everyone else does his or her job. He or she makes sure the actors get to the theater on time, calls all the cues for entrances, exits, lights, sound, and is generally in charge of what happens on the stage and in the backstage area. This person begins their role right from the time of auditions through the run of the show.
Props
There are props required for all shows – everything from soup to nuts. These volunteers will help beg, borrow, and ste - , uh, buy the props required for our productions! Their job takes place prior to the show opening.
Set Construction Crew
The volunteers in these positions will begin their role when we help strike the previous shows' set. The next day, usually Sunday, we need a variety of individuals to help construct and paint the set that is planned for our production. Someone will be leading this effort, and they need individuals, experienced or not, who would like to help bring the set to life! These persons will be done with their roles by a few weeks prior to the show opening.
Concessions- Host/Hostess
The lead person in this area will prepare concessions for purchase on performance nights by our patrons, work with other concession volunteers, and oversee concession sales during intermission.
Stage Crew
These individuals will assist the Stage Manager to set and replace props during the show, move set pieces, and assist actors backstage. Their job will begin a couple of weeks prior to and then through the run of the show.
Costume Assistants
These volunteers will be working with the lead costumer throughout the months prior to the actual show to hunt down, alter as needed, trim and sew the production’s costumes. They will also assist in insuring that costumes are cleaned and repaired as needed during and after the show.
Lighting Technician
Work with the Lighting Design to see the process of hanging and adjust the lights for a show, help set the cues in our lighting computer, and operate the computer that raises and lowers light levels during the run of the production. This person will begin
their efforts a couple of weeks prior to the show opening and someone to run the lights during the show.
Sound Technician
There are often lots of sound cues in our shows! The person filling this role will operate the computerized sound board that initiates the sounds on cue of such things as dogs barking, school bells ringing and/or Christmas music playing! This person will be involved from a couple of weeks prior to and then through the run of the show.
Whidbey Playhouse Community Theatre is a non-profit, volunteer organization--and we are always looking for new people, we need volunteer participants for all activities of the theatre.
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