Employment
Main Street Theater is in its 50th year of production. Our MainStage program utilizes a 99-seat theater at 2540 Times Boulevard in Rice Village for six productions each season. Our Theater for Youth (TY) season produces six productions at Midtown Arts and Theatre Center Houston (MATCH) plus one regional touring production. Main Street Theater is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other basis. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. Successful candidates will commit to an equitable and inclusive workplace.
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MANAGING DIRECTOR
Main Street Theater is seeking an experienced and visionary Managing Director (MD) with a strong background in Development to lead MST into its next chapter. The MD serves as a co-equal partner with the Artistic Director (AD) in a shared leadership model and reports directly to the Board of Directors. The MD will lead development and fundraising efforts, including grant writing and donor cultivation, to support the theater’s mission. The MD will manage the staff who carry out financial operations, marketing and communications and audience services. The MD will lead long-term planning efforts for MST’s continued presence in the Houston theater community and will support the transition in the near future from the Founding AD to new artistic leadership. Email cover letter and resume to rudden@mainstreettheater.com
CREW POSITIONS
For available MainStage tech and crew positions, please email aruthven@mainstreettheater.com
For available Theater for Youth tech and crew positions, please email vivienne@mainstreettheater.com Theater for Youth positions require daytime availability.
TEACHING ARTISTS
Do you like working with kids? Are you a teacher? A teaching artist? Does the idea of serving as a mentor to children in a creative and collaborative environment appeal to you? If you answered yes, click here for more information!
Seeking Teaching Artists and Assistants for our summer camp. We have 1/2 day, one week, and two week camps at multiple locations across Houston.
Send cover letter and resume to crayten@mainstreettheater.com
Auditions
Main Street Theater (MST) is committed to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion, and offers employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetics or veteran status. We encourage performers of all ethnicities and gender identities, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition. Houston-based actors only, please, union and non-union.
Generally, Main Street Theater holds auditions for each production by calling likely candidates currently in our actor files. To get in the actor files you should do one or all of the following.
If you are interested in auditioning for the Theater for Youth (which requires daytime availability, non-Equity only), please fill out this form and attach your résumé and headshot: click here to access form
You must be 18 years of age or older to audition for the Theater for Youth
If you are interested in the MainStage (Equity* and non-Equity), you should send a headshot and résumé via one of the forms below:
Union affiliated actors (AEA, SAG, AFTRA, etc.) click here to access form
Non-Union actors click here to access form
*Main Street Theater’s MainStage program works under an Equity SPT-2 Contract.
Main Street Theater JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) Artist Fellowship Program
Main Street Theater’s JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) Artist Fellowship Program is a paid artistic leadership development program for early-career artists of color. Applicants submit a resume and portfolio. The selected fellows will be assigned to a production either with the MainStage or Theater for Youth programs in their area of interest (Directing, Design, or Stage Management) while being given access to additional professional development opportunities within the Main Street Theater organization.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN.
Internships
Please email vivienne@mainstreettheater.com a résumé, 3 references, and current contact information with your email of inquiry. (Email only please, no phone calls.)
Ongoing Technical Internship Candidate Information:
If you are interested in being a Production Assistant during rehearsals for any of our MainStage or Theater for Youth shows, please mention that specifically in your contact email. Production assistants attend all rehearsals and assist the Production Stage Manager. (Please note, this is not an AEA contract, but EMC points may be gained on the MainStage.) All applicants for Theater for Youth productions MUST have daytime and weekend availability.
Technical interns are also needed to help designers with costumes, lights, carpentry, scenic painting, props, stage management, and running crew.