Job Opportunities
About OOH
Recipient of The New York Times Best Theatre of 2020 award, Out of Hand works at the intersection of art, social justice, and civic engagement. We spark conversations to build a better world by using the tools of theater to support and enhance the work of community partners. Out of Hand has three programming areas: Shows in Home, Educational Programming, and Community Collaborations, including Equitable Dinners and Equitable Dinners at Work. Whether we’re performing in a living room, launching discussions about race and equity with art, or making plays with and for students facing the largest opportunity gaps in our community, we’re doing it because we believe in the power of story to bring us together, to change lives, and create stronger, healthier communities.
Our Commitment to Anti-Racism
Out of Hand Theater has increasingly committed to anti-racism over the past few years, and we are now deepening and formalizing this commitment. Over the past several years, we have collaborated with community partners to address structural and systemic inequities and injustices in Metro Atlanta. Working at the intersection of arts and social justice, we have focused our programming specifically on racial justice.
As a company that works in racial justice in a city that is majority Black and in a region that is majority people of color, it is perhaps even more important for us to prioritize representation and leadership by Black people, Indigenous people and other People of Color (BIPOC) on our staff and board. This year, we are placing racial equity at the center of our strategic planning process.
However, we recognize that some of the most important work that we can do as a company is to acknowledge and root out our own internalized white supremacy. To do this, Out of Hand is developing an on-going anti-racism training plan for all staff and board members. The pursuit for racial justice and the fight against anti-blackness is a marathon not a sprint, and a movement not a moment, and we are committed to deep, intentional, and long-term work.
Request for
Proposal
playwright
Out of Hand Theater seeks a playwright based in and around the Metro Atlanta area to develop next season’s Shows in Homes Solo One Act Play as part of our season focus on Healthy Communities.
This is a paid opportunity. The playwright will work with the Out of Hand Associate Artistic Director and a community organization that works on homelessness to develop a 60-minute, one-performer play focusing on homelessness and housing insecurity. The play will be performed in living rooms, community centers, places of worship and other venues across Atlanta in the Spring of 2025.
Pay Rate: $3000 for development of the new play including performance royalties per performance during the run of the show.
Please complete the application linked below by submitting a cover letter showcasing your interest, a 3-page writing sample not on the topic described above (excerpt of a play, monologue, or creative writing sample), a headshot, and a resume.
About Out of Hand Theater’s Shows in Homes
Each year we produce a one-person, hour long show in living rooms and community spaces across the state. Each show includes a cocktail party and facilitated talk back, and every show is produced in collaboration with a community partner.
About Out of Hand Theater
Out of Hand works at the intersection of art, social justice, and civic engagement. We help create a more just world through programs that combine theater and film with information and conversation. Since 2001, Out of Hand has collaborated with dozens of community partners to produce programs that combine art to open hearts, information to open minds, and conversation to process emotions and information and make a plan for action. All of our programs are based on our two pillars, racial justice and economic justice, and our programs take place in homes, schools, businesses, public spaces, and on Zoom. Out of Hand serves those most affected by racism, by poverty, and by economic injustice, and those who are invested in eradicating these issues. Serving the community is at the core of all of Out of Hand’s four programming areas: Shows in Homes, Equitable Dinners, Community Collaborations, and Education.
Part Time
Internships
Out of Hand offers seasonal paid internships in support of our Equitable Dinners Program: a collaborative project that includes art and small group conversation to build community, bring light to inequities that exist for black people, and activate anti-racist action. The responsibilities of the internship include: familiarizing yourself with arts culture and collaborative partnerships in the Atlanta arts community, developing community engagement practices, attending staff meetings with Out of Hand team and Equitable Dinners Partner Design Team, coordinating completion and implementation of monthly project indicators, and other projects as assigned. These responsibilities will contribute to the development of the intern’s professional competencies by connecting his/her theoretical knowledge with good production and administration skills. Key abilities such as event coordination, small theater event production, intercultural skills, collaborative work, using the arts as a tool for social justice, introductory understanding of racial equity, anti-racism, and production of transformational learning events in a virtual environment.
For more information, please e-mail Adria Kitchens, Director of Equity and Activism, adria@outofhandtheater.com.