Technical Director

Thursday, May 08, 2025 thru Wednesday, August 06, 2025

$875.00/week + Housing provided

The Technical Director (TD) is a key leadership role within the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's summer production team. The TD oversees all scenic elements from design to stage including, drafting (as required), budget planning and adherence, scheduling, supervising crew, and problem solving. Additional day-to-day responsibilities include facilitating initial festival set-up and strike, providing leadership on the shop floor and on-site during installs, changeovers and loadouts, coordinating expenses with Production Management, communicating with designers (especially once they are on-site) and coordinating build space usage with the Charge Artist and Props Master. The TD, ATD and Shop Foreman work closely together to ensure a professional and inclusive work environment at all times. The TD is responsible for maintaining a manageable work schedule for the entire Carpentry team to facilitate multiple ongoing builds and projects throughout the summer season. Safety and precision are our foremost priorities.

To apply send cover letter, resume and (3) references (please include the position(s) you are applying for in the subject line) to Director of Production, Matthew F. Lewandowski II: matthew.lewandowski@pashakespeare.org

PSF is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to the principles of inclusion and diversity both onstage and off.

Contract dates vary slightly by department but the overall season runs Monday, May 05, 2025 through Wednesday, August 06, 2025. Performances run from Tuesday, May 27 through Sunday, August 03, 2025.

About PSF:
Heading into its 33rd season the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival operates on the campus of DeSales University. The Festival performs in both the 473 seat mainstage and the 187 seat black box at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on campus. PSF's company of artists in recent years has included winners and nominees of the Tony, Emmy, Drama Desk, Hayes, Lortel, Jefferson, Barrymore, etc. and headliners from Broadway, television, feature film, etc. Coverage has included The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, etc., and The New York Times has identified PSF in two recent years as one of the leading summer theatre festivals in the nation. Each summer PSF produces a season of Shakespeare alongside other classics, musical theatre and children's theatre.

The Mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs.

The Festival's core Values: Quality, Shakespeare, Education, Relationships

Summer 2025 Season: Undiscovered Countries

The season features three plays by William Shakespeare including Hamlet, playing in repertory with Tom Stoppard+rsquo;s tragicomedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the lesser staged Timon of Athens, and a touring production of Much Ado About Nothing. The season also features Lorraine Hansberry+rsquo;s landmark drama A Raisin in the Sun, alongside two musical productions: Mel Brooks+rsquo; Tony Award-winning The Producers and the new musical Penelope by Alex Bechtel.

Family programming includes a fresh adaptation of Grimms+rsquo; fairy tales The Princess and the Frog Prince, and the beloved Shakespeare for Kids series, which brings Hamlet to life for young audiences both at the Festival and through its community library tour.