Usher

Part time / $50-60 hourly / Lucille Lortel Theatre / New York, NY

Paid Usher
Part-time Opportunity
Employer: Lucille Lortel Theatre
Hourly Rate: $50.00 (early shift) or $60.00 (late shift)
Start Date: September 23, 2024
Location: Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC)
Deadline to Apply: ASAP. Interviews will be scheduled as soon as applications are received.

Ushers welcome audience members to the Lucille Lortel Theatre, facilitating the entry process and shaping the customer experience for everyone attending productions in our West Village theatre. The Lucille Lortel Theatre is looking for individuals who:

• are committed to an equitable and inclusive community
• have outstanding patience, customer service and interpersonal skills, and feel comfortable talking to anyone
• work well under pressure, multitask, and demonstrate superb attention to detail
• can work independently and as part of a team
• communicate in a clear, professional manner
• have a passion for theatre

The Lortel Theatre is looking specifically for ushers who can work on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings, and well as Saturday matinees. Ushers are paid $50.00/performance (early shift of one hour before curtain through curtain) or $60.00/performance (late shift of one hour before curtain through intermission). Ushers must be available for at least two early and one late shift per week. This position reports to the House Manager.

Lucille Lortel Theatre is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage applicants from historically marginalized communities. Lucille Lortel Theatre recognizes that historic institutional practices have led to an exclusionary and harmful environment for members of these communities, and is actively working to become a more diverse, anti-racist, inclusive organization. We acknowledge and welcome the complexity of the work ahead.

About the Lucille Lortel Theatre
Lucille Lortel Theatre’s mission is to foster both new and established artists, increase awareness and appreciation of Off-Broadway, and uphold fair and equitable business and artistic practices in service of creating a larger, more diverse community of theatre makers and audiences. The Company builds on the legacy of its founder, Lucille Lortel (1900–1999) who was a champion of work by Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Athol Fugard, Jean Genet, Adrienne Kennedy, Larry Kramer, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Sam Shepard, and Wendy Wasserstein. In addition to its Off-Broadway theatre, which has been in continuous operation since 1955, the Company is renovating a three-story carriage house in Chelsea that will act as the Company’s new headquarters. Its programs include The Alcove at the Lortel, a commissioning and development program for early and mid-career playwrights; the 121 Project, a bespoke development program for new musicals; NYC Public High School Playwriting Fellowship, Fellowships in NYC Theatre at Bennington College, the New York Emmy-Nominated Dangerous Acts: A Series Uplifting Black Writers from Our Past (in partnership with HBCUs), Lucille Lortel Awards and Playwrights’ Sidewalk, Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB.com), and Non-Profit Theatre Strategic and Management Services. For more information, please visit www.lortel.org.