Seeking sound technician / run crew and props/costume pieces coordinator for Now Is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026 in Somerville, MA

[Thomas King]

Now Is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026 at the Somerville Community Growing Center, a site-specific performance funded by a Somerville Arts Council grant, seeks two experienced persons for stipended positions in the company. 

Sound technician / run crew: We are looking for an experienced person familiar with (or able to learn ) QLab and to set up portable outdoor sound equipment. Depending on availability, responsibilities would range from (minimally) setting up sound equipment and running cues (using QLab) for tech rehearsals, dress rehearsals and performances (beginning about 23 May) to (more extensively) helping to program sound cues during rehearsals and continuing as above through performances. The position offers a stipend of $250.00 - $350.00, depending on extent of involvement, to help defray costs of participation (transportation, meals, etc.).

Props and costume piece coordinator: We are looking for an experienced person to coordinate hand props, a few furniture pieces, and costume pieces for an outdoor, minimally designed production in which seven actors play a variety of roles across 13+ short plays. The position would begin around 27 April, with some flexibility, and offers a stipend of $350.00 to help defray costs of participation (transportation, meals, etc.).

Please contact Tom King: tk...@brandeis.edu.

Information about the production follows.

With gratitude,

Tom King

Now is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026

Performances

Friday 29 May and Saturday 30 May at 6:30 p.m.; Sunday 31 May at 4:00 p.m.

Rain dates: Friday 5 June and Saturday 6 June at 6:30 p.m.

Venue

The Somerville Community Growing Center [thegrowingcenter.org]

22 Vinal Ave, Somerville, MA

Past decisions may feel like a burden. The future may be uncertain. But now is still here, as we gather in a community garden to attend to our human and more-than-human worlds. To practice small acts of care in our built and natural environments. To share joy. To take action toward our future thriving.

Join us for Now Is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026 at the Somerville Community Growing Center in the Union Square area. A festival of short plays commissioned from playwrights around the world and inviting audience members to take action, Climate Change Theatre Action asks, What future relations to our built and natural environments can we imagine and then begin building together? How can practices of care for all living beings help us imagine and build justice, inclusion, and belonging in our communities?

Imagining together a just future is the first step to building it together. 

“Now is Still Here: Climate Change Theatre Action 2026” is presented in partnership with the Artists' Theater of Boston [instagram.com] (Anneke Reich, Artistic Director), the Racial Justice Collaborative [racialjusticecollaborative.com] (Diane Wong, founder and leader) and the Somerville Community Growing Center [thegrowingcenter.org]. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and by a Public Humanities/Community Engagement Grant from the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Climate Change Theatre Action (founding artistic director Chantal Bilodeau) is a biennial international festival produced in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts [sustainablepractice.org] (Canada/New York). 

About Artists’ Theatre of Boston

Challenging systemic injustices through the collaborative process of making theater, ATB (Anneke Reich, artistic dir.) has developed new works through close community partnerships and delved into complex topics through deep artistic collaboration. Subjects explored include gentrification (This Place/Displaced), possible futures and queerness (Break, Break), US history of war crimes & ecocide (Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?). ATB affirms the capacity of the arts to challenge oppression, provide resources for critical thinking and resilience, and enable transformation.