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2025/26 SEASON PROFESSIONAL APPRENTICE PROGRAM

Pay Type:

Salary

Job Status:

Full Time

Minimum Salary/Hourly Rate:

$630.00

Maximum Salary/Hourly Rate:

$630.00

Lantern Theater Company

Lantern Theater Company is now accepting applications for our 2025/26 Season Professional Apprentice Program, which provides in-depth and hands-on experience with theater operations and management. The application deadline is March 1, 2025.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
The Lantern's professional apprentice program provides training in professional, not-for-profit theater operations and management. The apprenticeship may include rotations in artistic, administrative, and technical functions, including box office, house management, run crew, stage management, technical production, and theater building maintenance. Ours is not an acting apprentice program, but theater artists with performance aspirations are encouraged to apply and may have opportunities to understudy and/or audition for roles.

Ideal candidates may have recently completed an undergraduate theater program and/or have some relevant theater experience in administrative, artistic, and/or technical areas. Apprentices work full-time schedules (40 hours per week) throughout the season and must be available for evening and weekend performances for most rotations, including rotations around major holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, etc.). The professional apprentice program is a full-time commitment, and we are unable to accommodate candidates with significant outside obligations. Candidates without existing conflicts will be given preference.

We encourage applicants with stage management and specialized technical experience to apply as we may offer focused apprenticeship tracks for stage management, costumes, and production.

The program offers a salary of $630 per week, plus paid time off, complimentary tickets to Lantern and other select theater productions, and participation in special theater outings. The Lantern's professional apprentice program will begin approximately August 1, 2025, and end approximately July 1, 2026.

To Apply

HOW TO APPLY:
Please send your resume and brief cover letter describing your near-term professional objectives to jobs@lanterntheater.org with "2025/26 Season Professional Apprentice Program" in the subject line. Your cover letter should be no more than one page, and it should include three references with their contact information. Feel free to include separate resumes for your performance experience and other professional experience. We encourage you to include all prior work experience, including that outside of theater. Ideally, your cover letter and resume(s) will be combined into one single PDF.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:
We are accepting applications now through March 1, 2025. Our goal is to select three to four apprentices by April 30, 2025, with an approximate start date of August 1, 2025. No phone calls, please.

Lantern Theater Company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex, gender, age, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or public assistance status in the recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, layoff, recall, and termination of employees. We are committed to being an antiracist organization and building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment, onstage and behind the scenes. Qualified candidates who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other members of underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply for open positions.