Join the Artists Council

TSGP is transitioning away from a single-founder leadership model and adopting a beehive system—a biomimicry approach that distributes decision-making among three key “cells,” each with unique roles. The Artists Council is one of those cells which will lead TSGP in to the future.

The founding members of the Artists Council will help define and determine the initial systems, roles and responsibilities of the Council in collaboration with the Board of Directors (who bear fiscal, legal and fiduciary responsibility for TSGP). The Artistic Director is a paid leadership staff member who serves on and supports the Artist Council as a catalyst and visionary. The Artistic Director role may ultimately be re-envisioned as a co-leadership model.

Vision statement:

The Artists Council will be the driving creative force behind achieving the mission, vision and goals of The Shattered Glass Project, by providing generative artistic advice and creation for programming and productions. The purpose of the Artists Council is to support and care for theatre artists, foster creative collaboration, and lead sustainable artistic growth and staffing plans in support of a collaborative and collective artistic leadership model.

Envisioning Yourself in the role

Are you any or all of the following?

A theatre maker in any practice area or combination of practice areas (the more hyphens, the better.)
A person with a commitment to ensuring equity in the theatre for playwrights, directors, actors, designers and other creators who have experienced marginalization due to their gender.
A theatre maker willing to contribute time, energy and talent to helping lift up emerging theatre artists of all ages and practice areas through mentoring, teaching, and leading.
A person with an understanding of the feminist co-mentoring principle that we all have something to teach and we all have something to learn.
A theatre maker who can commit to a year of work and creative contribution to help The Shattered Glass Project become a better organization making art through systems that are creative, human-centered, and uplifting.

Time Commitment

One year minimum commitment | One meeting a month | Ad hoc work sessions

The Artists Council will meet as a group on a monthly basis. Individual members will participate in working sessions on a weekly, bi-weekly, or ad hoc basis, depending on the needs of a given project, production or task. Monthly council meetings will be in person as often as possible; working sessions will most likely take place on Zoom. Council members will be available for phone calls and email advice for the AD and for the Board and Staff cells.

Council membership will be for a minimum time commitment of one year. The founding members of the Artists Council will determine the value and need of a maximum time commitment/term limit.

While the the Artists Council will be a volunteer role for the immediate future, members of the Artists Council will have priority access to opportunities to participate as artists in compensated roles. As funding and income for the company grows, the vision is for Council members to receive a stipend and/or to move into compensated roles with the organization.

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Key Responsibilities

Community Building:
- Serve as an ambassador for community engagement and relationship building with specific communities as relevant to artistic work.

Help us broaden our artistic base and reach out to an intersectional group of artists who have been marginalized by gender.
Represent TSGP by presenting our conflict resolution pathway at production and cast meetings.

Artist Support & Mentorship:

Lead and/or attend monthly Artist Circles, workshops, open forums for creative growth.
Lead activities for the Incubator/Mentor Program. Serve as a mentor or co-mentor. Help recruit mentors and participants. Support other mentors.
Help recruit teaching artists and speakers for I/M skill-building programs and activities.

Program Vision & Development:
- In partnership with the AD, shape productions and creative initiatives.

Assist with Incubator/Mentor Program vision and process: curriculum development, application process, and selection of participants.
Evaluate the success of I/M programming and help determine changes that will make the program better
Participate in planning the season calendar so that we are providing the best service and opportunities in a sustainable way.

Sustainable Staffing Roadmap:

Define production and artistic roles and outline compensation needs, ensuring TSGP can hire and pay staff fairly over time.
Participate in hiring interviews and support the development of artistic teams for productions and programming. Help us recruit a diverse group of people to apply for artistic roles.
Develop and share tools with the board and administrative staff to guide decision making and processes for human resources and creative teams interactions/behavior.
Guide TSGP in caring for the artists we work with by establishing best practices for anti-racist, trauma-informed, human-centered rehearsal rooms and collaborative artistic creativity.

Help TSGP Develop a Co-Creation Model:
- Conduct outreach inviting artists to co-create programs rather than relying on top-down directives.
Artistic and Creative Involvement:
- Participate as artists in compensated roles as well as serving as a volunteer on the Council.

Reading submitted plays and evaluating them for quality, readiness, and if they are appropriate to the TSGP mission.
Helping select plays for mainstage productions and for plays in progress workshops.
Participating in Plays in Progress readings and script development workshops as a director, an actor, stage manager, production manager, designer or other compensated role.
Early access for playwrights to submission opportunities for Plays in Progress or Salon readings. Early access for all artists to open job postings.

Questions? Email Artistic Director Rebecca O’Neil at rebecca@shatteredglassproject.org.

Are you interested? Click here for application form

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