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Membership Services Specialist Sought by Educational Theatre Assocation

EdTA_logoJob Title: Membership Services Specialist

Department: Membership

Supervisor: Assistant Membership Manager

FLSA Status: Full Time, non-exempt

Prepared By: Director of Human Resources

Prepared Date: 7/1/2017

Approved By: Director of Human Resources

Approved Date: 2/7/2018

Organizational Overview

The Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) is a professional organization for theatre education with more than 100,000 members nationwide. EdTA’s mission is shaping lives through theatre education by: honoring student achievement in theatre and enriching their theatre education experience; supporting teachers by providing professional development, networking opportunities, resources, and recognition; and influencing public opinion that theatre education is essential and builds life skills. EdTA is the home of the International Thespian Society, an honorary organization that has inducted more than 2.2 million theatre students since its founding in 1929.

Position Summary:  EdTA seeks a Membership Service Specialist to work high school and middle school teachers who are starting and managing their student honor society, providing member support, and sharing actionable information with departmental leadership.

Job Description:

The Membership Service Specialist supports the Membership team in meeting the various needs of the department.  Success in the role requires the ability to build relationships with professional members, staff and volunteers, an affinity toward data management, research, and some amount of transactional account management.

Specific Responsibilities

  1. Consults daily as an expert-level source for membership and troupe management assistance via phone and email. Requires extensive knowledge of organizational policies, guidelines, handbooks, and Association activities.
  2. Answers inquiries and provides professional, prompt, courteous, complete service. Provides equal service with respect to email, telephone, and other communication modalities with the Association.
  3. Serves as an expert, via phone and email, for navigation and use of the Association’s website. Develops expert-level knowledge of all areas and content of the website.
  4. Responsible for checking, monitoring, maintaining, and clearing the Association’s automated telephone system. Routes inbound calls to relevant Association staff.
  5. Outreach to prospective members to answer questions, recruit and encourage membership.
  6. Accurately and promptly enters dues, registration, accounts receivable, subscription, merchandise order and other transactions to the association management system (AMS)..
  7. Assists with billing, mailings, information requests, and related member retention processes..
  8. Reviews web transactions submitted to the Association website.
  9. Maintains Association data and records according to established procedures and standards. Includes creating and updating records, record management, contact and activity recording, filing, etc.
  10. Fulfills membership purchases and orders (printing membership cards, certificates, etc.) daily.
  11. Serve as backup to the Inventory and Shipping Coordinator for daily shipping and mail procedures.
  12. Performs other duties, as assigned.

Related Considerations

  • May be asked to travel, occasionally, on behalf of the Association.
  • Vacation time is not permitted annually from April 15 – May 31.
  • Some overtime may be required annually from April 15 – May 31.

Education Required:  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Affinity toward and experience with customer service roles.
  • High detail orientation.
  • High level of proficiency in MS Word and Outlook. At least basic skill with MS Excel.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong organization, multi-tasking, and time management skills.
  • Positive, team-oriented attitude.
  • Ability to think and act independently, within one’s authority.
  • Experience in the non-profit sector, theatre and/or education preferred.
  • Experience with transactional account management.
  • High school level math skills.
  • Ability to travel on a limited basis.

Please submit cover letter and résumé by email (Subject Line: EdTA Membership Service Specialist) to:  HRManager@schooltheatre.org.

First consideration will be given to applications received by February 23.

No phone calls, please.

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE to Open as Falcon Theatre’s Fourth Production of 2017-18

FT_A Streetcar Named Desire logoThe New York Times says it’s one of the greatest plays ever penned by an American playwright. New York Theater agrees, calling it one of the best plays of the past 100 years.

It’s Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer-prize winning A Streetcar Named Desire, and it’s coming to the stage at Falcon Theatre. The production opens March 16, 2018.

The play can seem dated, dealing with antiquated subject matter: strict gender norms, Southern Belles, mid-20th-Century chastity and views of female sexuality, but on the play’s 70th anniversary, director Nate Netzley is updating the play’s stage setting to modern post-Katrina New Orleans in order to illustrate the play’s universal themes and ideas.

“Williams was not writing a period piece. He was not taking a snapshot of ‘Where we are in New Orleans in 1947,’” says Netzley. “He was examining how we deal with trauma, power, love, and of course desire. These themes are not unique to any given point in time.”

Falcon’s production features Tara Williams as Blanche DuBois, Phineas Clark as Stanley Kowalski, Ellie Margolis as Stella Kowalski, and Charlie Roetting as Mitch Mitchell. The cast also includes Torie Pate, Derek Snow, Ray Dzhorgov, Natasha Boeckmann, Tanner McDole, and Terry Gosdin.

Performances are at 8 PM on March 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, and 31, 2018. Ticket prices are $22 for adults, $15 for students with ID. Patrons enjoy a $5 discount for Thursday performances. Visit falcontheater.net to reserve seats.

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Auditions Announced for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Beavercreek Community Theatre

bctBeavercreek Community Theatre
3868 Dayton-Xenia Rd.
Beavercreek, OH 45432
Auditions are March 5-6 at 7pm

Director: Jeff Sams

Performance Dates: April 27-May 6, 2018

There will be cold readings from the script. A monologue is not necessary.

Rehearsals will typically be Monday through Thursday, 7:00-9:30pm. There may be a few Saturday rehearsals. A draft of the rehearsal calendar will be available to view at auditions.

Those auditioning are asked to list all potential conflicts between March 7 and May 6, 2018.

A headshot is not needed, but a resume is appreciated.

Roles

*Age ranges are not firm. We may cast outside of the listed age ranges depending on what we see at auditions. There may be some potential doubling with the smaller female roles. Unless specified all roles may be played by actors of any ethnicity.

Blanche DeBouis: Female, late 20s-30s. Stella’s older sister. Raised with money but now destitute, her grip on reality is far too loose. She carries eternal guilt, has a way with words and possesses an alarming internal dialogue.

Stella Kowalski: Female, late 20s-30s. Blanche’s younger sister who left the fancy estate in Mississippi and moved to New Orleans as a teenager where she lives with her husband, Stanley, to whom she is attracted like an animal. She is torn between Blanche and Stanley and ultimately sides with her husband, even after Blanche accuses him of raping her.

Stanley Kowalski: Male, late 20s-30s. Stella’s husband. Lean and vibrant, he radiates a primal energy. He has dirt under his nails and an unshakeable worldview. He sees his commonness as above Blanche’s pretensions. He hits his wife, rapes her sister, and shows no remorse.

Harold “Mitch” Mitchell: Male, late 20s-30s. Stanley’s buddy from the war, work, and poker. His mom is quite ill and he quickly falls for Blanche, as if she’s the eternal answer. He sweats through his awkwardness, but is sensitive and a gentleman – until he learns the truth about Blanche’s sordid past. Yet, at the end, he and Stella are the only ones who lament Blanche’s fate.

Eunice: Female, 25-40. Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady. We see the low-class life of the French Quarter through her and her husband, Steve. Eunice lets Steve beat her, yet remains affectionate. And it’s her urging that propels Stella at the end to disbelieve Blanche’s accusation against Stanley.

Young Collector: Male, 15-19. A teenager who comes to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone. He’s just an innocent kid on whom Blanche hits, showing us how far she’ll stoop to feel power.

Steve: Male, 25-40. Eunice’s husband. A quick-to-anger brute, fit like Stanley and one of Stanley’s poker buddies.

Pablo: Male, 25-40. Latino/Hispanic. Another of Stanley’s poker buddies.

[Negro] Woman: Female, 25-40. Traditionally cast African American. A neighbor.

Mexican Woman: Female, 25-40. Latino/Hispanic. We hear her selling flowers for the dead in plaintive calls. She frightens Blanche.

Doctor: Male, 30-65. Arrives at the end to escort Blanche to an asylum. Cold at first, he shows warmth by offering Blanche his arm, much like the kind of man Blanche would have admired on the plantation.

Nurse: Female, 25-50. Arrives with the doctor at the end of the play.

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Cast Announced for KILL MOVE PARADISE at Know Theatre of Cincinnati

KTC_Kill Move Paradise logoKILL MOVE PARADISE takes the Elysium of Greek antiquity and flips the script. Set in a netherworld prepared for its newly deceased inhabitants, we follow Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny as they try to make sense of the world they have been “untimely ripped” from and this new paradise they find themselves in. Inspired by recent events, KILL MOVE PARADISE is a expressionistic buzz saw through the contemporary myth that “all lives matter” and a portrait of the slain, not as degenerates who deserved death but as heroes who demand that we see them for who they are.

The cast includes:

  • Darnelle Pierre Benjamin as Isa
  • Elliott Young as Daz
  • Landon Horton as Grif
  • Crystian Wiltshire as Tiny

Directed by Piper N. Davis, performances runs March 2-24.

For more information visit https://knowtheatre.vbotickets.com/event/Kill_Move_Paradise/21180

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A FEW GOOD MEN Runs March 9-18

DPH_logoA FEW GOOD MEN
Dayton Playhouse
March 9-18
[Dayton]

Directed by Jennifer Lockwood
Produced by J. Gary Thompson

Cast: TBA as Kaffee,  Michael Plaugher as Sam,  Gwendolyn Gay as Jo,  Kestin Howard as Dawson,  Samuel Hamilton as Downey,  David Thomas as Ross,  B Lee Drew as Jessep,  Ray Geiger as Markinson,  Brandon Kennison as Kendrick,  Steve Voris as Whitaker,  Corey Ballard as Stone, Andrew Davenport as Howard, Franklin Johnson as Randolph, Juangabriel Incarnacion as Santiago & William Boatwright as Marines, Sailors, MPs, etc.

  • Fri-Sat, March 9-10 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 11 at 2pm
  • Fri-Sat, March 16-17 at 8pm
  • Sun, March 18 at 2pm

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