Call for New Board Members
Six Elements Board Member Primary Duties:
Six Elements Theatre Board members are stewards of our mission and resources. They play an active role in supporting and maintaining our mission. Board members oversee policy and ensure that the organization has adequate resources to carry out its mission. The Board maintains a collaborative relationship with the Executive and Artistic Directors to ensure company activities align with our stated mission and goals.
Six Elements Theatre welcomes Board candidates with a broad range of knowledge and skills. We are particularly interested in candidates within some or all of the following areas of experience and expertise:
Fundraising
Marketing
Prior nonprofit board experience
Passion for accessible, responsible, high-quality theatre
Legal experience
Community Outreach
Board terms are two years, and board service requires an estimated 4 to 6 hours per month, on average. Board meetings are held during the third week of every other month (January, March, May, July, September, and November) based on Board Members’ schedules as determined at the previous meeting. Meeting times are approximately 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm central time. Meetings are currently held online.
Expectations for Board Members:
To regularly attend Board and Committee meetings
To understand the mission, work, and production history of the company
To be prepared for Board meetings and actively participate in discussions
To actively promote the success of Six Elements Theatre through volunteering your time, coordinating and participating in fundraising activities, recruiting volunteers, donors and other Board members
To attend our productions and main fundraising events
Six Elements Theatre is committed to deepening the diversity of our Board members. We strongly encourage women, non-binary people, BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and disabled adults of all ages to apply.
We are seeking 2-4 new Board members at this time.
To Apply:
Please send an email to sixelementsboard@gmail.com with the title “Six Elements Theatre Board Application”. Please attach your resume, if available, and answer the following questions:
Why are you interested in serving as a member of the Six Elements Theatre Board of Directors?
What is your relevant experience as it relates to the needs of the Six Elements Theatre Board of Directors?
What contributions do you feel you can make and what are your areas of expertise?
Have you served on any other Boards? If so, which ones?
Is there anything else you would like us to know or consider?
Want to be a producer? Join Six Elements
Six Elements is looking for new Company Members! These are the people who plan the season, find spaces, market the shows, find our artists, write grants, answer emails, and make sure the operation of the theater runs smoothly.
Take a look at the Company Member Rights and Responsibilities and our What We Do page to see if you’d like to be a part of creating the work we do from the ground up.
If Six Elements sounds like the type of organization you want to help grow and thrive by joining as a company member, please answer the below questions and send them along with your theatrical resume to SixElementsTheatre@gmail.com.
What work have you done in theater or in the creation of collaborative art? With whom have you worked? How have things gone well? What hurdles have you encountered? What is your ideal process like?
We produce a range of material, from classical stories to new plays and collaboratively devised works. What kind of theater are you interested in producing? Are there any specific shows, projects, or themes you’d like to explore?
Company Members are responsible for a variety of tasks necessary to the production of a season, including production management, accounting, marketing, and fundraising, in addition to filling various roles within individual shows. What tasks are you interested in?
Why do you want to work with Six Elements Theatre?
Volunteers
It takes a lot of work to produce a show, and Six Elements is always happy to accept a crew of eager volunteers to help us put on a great show.
If you are not part of the production team or cast, and want to be an essential part of the show, email us at sixelementstheatre@gmail.com or join our mailing list to find out about volunteer opportunities!
Box Office/Concessions volunteers:
For most performances, we will need two volunteers per performance to help with ticket sales and concessions. These volunteers can see that performance free of charge.
Strike/Load-in/Constructions Volunteers:
Each production requires a lot of work building the set, loading it into the space, and taking it down after the last performance. These volunteers can sign up to help on these days through the volunteer coordinator, who will determine how many people are needed. The volunteer coordinator will log names and how many hours worked. Volunteers will receive one free ticket (to the production they work on) for 4 hours of work, two tickets for 8 or more hours of work.
**volunteers who help with Strike will receive tickets to the following production.
Show-by-show Artists
Performers
For most productions, we will be posting our audition notices on Minnesota Playlist. If we are between productions, feel free to send us your headshot and resume.
Production roles
If you would like to be considered as a Designer, Director, or Stage Manager for future shows, we would love to hear from you! Please send your resume to sixelementstheatre@gmail.com and we will respond to you shortly thereafter.
Playwrights
If you have a script or an idea for collaboration, please let us know! We are completely open to reading your script submissions, but please be aware that our company is focused on portraying stage combat and intimacy for the stage. It is unlikely we will actively seek to work on projects outside of this scope.