Theatre Director Resume Examples

Theatre Director and Marketing Consultant HIV Anti-stigma Project

Overseeing a New York City Department of Health funded HIV Anti-Stigma Theatre Troupe and collaboratively coordinated a NYC Transit and Radio Social Marketing Campaigns.

• Developed 12 theater pieces, and curricula as part of a team launching [company name]'s HIV Anti-Stigma Campaign.
• Ran rehearsals, scheduled and facilitated presentations on HIV stigma in Schools, churches, rehab centers, and senior centers.
• Produced the [company name] HIV Anti-Stigma Video displaying our scope of services.
• Created initial drafts of Focus Group Curricula, and the Print and Radio messaging for our Social Marketing Campaigns.
• Handled all contracts for the Social Marketing Campaigns and for performance spaces, vendors and consultants.

Theatre Director/teacher

• Taught classes in Theatre Arts I-IV, Speech Communications, and History of Entertainment
• Directed and staged theatrical productions earning profits of $900-$2000 each
• Directed "Phantasmagoria" fundraiser, earning 287% profit
• Increased student enrollment in Theatre Arts II-IV classes by 428% over 3 years through extensive promotion, recruitment, and marketing
• Increased student participation in extracurricular theatre arts - 100 students auditioned for 2005 fall play (non-musical)
• Chaired Committee to Publicize Clubs & Organizations for 2 years
• Coordinated annual Clubs & Organizations Fair

Teacher and Theatre Director

Taught English language arts, Reading Strategies I and II, Drama I & II, Humanities, Speech Communication, and Musical Theater Production I & II

• Created and implemented curriculum for drama II, musical theater II, speech communications and reading classes. Adapted and reworked curriculum
• Served on school committees, including RTI and supported education.
• Implemented and taught new reading program for freshman and sophomore struggling readers.
• Directed fall plays, spring musicals, talent shows and improvisation shows
• Created and maintained social media and web pages for both the theater
• Served as Thespian Troupe sponsor, coordinating field trips to fine arts- related activities and events.

Theatre Director

Managed the day to day operations of the Theatres business

• Oversaw marketing plan including advertising, sales and promotion and press
• Optimized product mix and enforced high quality standards
• Developed annual business plan
• Identified and implemented revenue and profit opportunities to enhance revenues
• Drafted and submitted all monthly financial reports

Theatre Director

• Directed spring musicals for three years at a Redmond, Washington high school.
• Researched, wrote, edited, produced, and delivered arts and news reports for the public radio station in Kansas City, Missouri, and the NPR network program, Morning Edition.
• Member of the Kansas City Drama Desk, a panel of critics and reporters who presented annual awards to outstanding local theater productions and talent.
• Won two first-place awards for news reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists/Kansas City Press Club.
• Assistant General Manager, WGTB-FM, Washington, DC.
• Production Manager, WLMD, Laurel, Maryland.
• Promoter, New Era Follies concert production firm, Arlington, Virginia.

Theatre Director

• Developed and taught grades 9-12 lesson plans
• Directed and project managed 10 theatrical productions
• Facilitated award ceremonies, banquets, and fundraising events
• Designed costumes, sets, and lighting for all main-stage plays

Theatre Director

Designed, directed, and advertised for student productions.

• Collaborated with educational professionals and the Westerville business community.
• Recruited, contracted, and supervised the heads of costumes, constructions, lighting, sound, and props.
• Created a budget, opened credit lines with local businesses, and utilized purchase orders.
• Facilitated in the construction and design of sets for productions.

Theatre Director

Designed, directed, and advertised for student productions.

• Collaborated with educational professionals and the Westerville business community.
• Recruited, contracted, and supervised the heads of costumes, constructions, lighting, sound, and props.
• Created a budget, opened credit lines with local businesses, and utilized purchase orders.
• Helped build and design sets for the productions.

Assistant Technical Theatre Director and Teacher

• Implemented developmental plan for Theatre program which included aggressive online marketing and strategic budgeting resulting in doubled enrollment and production revenue in only 2 years.
• Prepared press releases, created original print and digital graphic designs, as well as implementing web-design skills for publicity of theatre productions.
• Designed, developed, and implemented training for district Technical Theatre teachers to integrate Adobe Creative Suite CS3 into their curriculum.

Theatre Director

Orchestrate and manage program comprised of three major school-wide productions and 10-20 smaller events each year involving hundreds of student, parent, faculty, and musician participants. Plan, monitor, and control master schedules, up to $20K budgets per production, logistics, staffing / casting, rehearsals, and final performances.

• Created and managed organization's first drama program encompassing event planning, curriculum development, equipment, costume, and prop purchasing/leasing, and donor development. Program has grown to current plans to build small performance theatre funded through donor cultivation and solicitation.
• Provided comprehensive on-time and within budget program management for full-scale Broadway caliber musicals, including Secret Garden, West Side Story, Footloose, and Fiddler on the Roof.
• Produced and directed all facets of these musicals including auditions, casting, budgeting, stage and lighting design, costuming, fundraising, volunteer staffing, musician contracting, and equipment/prop rentals.
• Initiated development, implementation, and launch of organization's first outdoor education program that expanded into annual trip for all 5th-8thgrade students and two-week summer program.