Director of Learning and Community Engagement - Manhattan Theatre Club · Until Filled , NY

Director of Learning and Community Engagement - Manhattan Theatre Club

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Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC), incorporated in 1970 as a not-for-profit organization, is one of the leading producers of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and it is known for its highest quality, award-winning theatrical productions of new work by American and international playwrights. MTC started as a small off-off-Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most prestigious theater companies, creating approximately 600 world, American, New York, and Broadway premieres.

Plays that premiered at MTC have been produced throughout the country and around the globe and have contributed a proud legacy to the American theatrical canon.

In 1978, MTC’s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’, a revue comprised of the songs of Fats Waller which won the Tony Award for Best Musical, was its first high-profile success. Since then, MTC productions have garnered 28 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, and 50 Drama Desk Awards, as well as numerous Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Drama League, and Theatre World Awards.

MTC has won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement, a Drama Desk for Outstanding Excellence, and a Theatre World for Outstanding Achievement. Former productions include James Ijames’ Pulitzer-Prize winning Fat Ham, the world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues, Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau, the Broadway premiere of How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel, Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, August Wilson’s Jitney and The Piano Lesson, The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Proof by David Auburn, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, and Love!

Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally, among many others.

MTC performs in three venues, including its Broadway home at the 650 seat Samuel J. Friedman Theatre—formerly Biltmore Theatre—which was restored and reopened in 2003, and two at New York City Center Off Broadway, where MTC created the 300-seat Stage I and the 150-seat Stage II. The  season includes Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, and Erika Sheffer’s Vladimir.

MTC’s commitment to excellence extends to every aspect of the company, including a gifted staff, a supportive and committed Board of Directors, a first-rate education program, a robust behind-the-scenes development program for new work, and a high-quality paid career training program, which prepares the next generation of theater professionals for jobs at MTC and beyond. MTC’s education programs encompass a diverse range of initiatives aimed at empowering learners to engage joyfully and authentically with live theater as authors, audience members, and administrators.

These programs include in-school residencies in classrooms, workshops, supportive artistic collaborations with not-for-profit community-based organizations, and career development opportunities for early career professionals, all providing participants with hands-on experience and mentorship from industry professionals.

Since its founding in 1989, MTC’s education program has served more than 100,000 students of all ages in New York City, nationally, and internationally, and its Artistic Development program offers a wide range of commissions, dramaturgical support, readings, and workshops. MTC is committed to being an antiracist organization that respects and honors all voices while upholding the values of community, equity, access, and belonging.

To this end, MTC has been reviewing and updating its policies and practices in order to create an inclusive, anti-racist environment for its artists, staff members, and audiences.

Some recent actions, among many, include ensuring that the artists whose work is on MTC stages represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives, providing hundreds of seats to productions at discounted community rates, supplying select community groups with complimentary seats to each production, establishing a portal for the companies of MTC shows to report Equity, Diversity, and…