Work With Us
We appreciate your interest in joining our team! At this time, there are no job openings available at CU Presents. We encourage you to check back periodically as new opportunities may arise in the future.
Auditions for the 2023 season have concluded. Please check back in September 2023 for details concerning the 2024 season.
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival (the nation’s 2nd oldest summer Shakespeare festival) invites seasoned professionals, early career artists, and college level apprentices from all over the country to gather in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. For thirteen weeks actors, directors, designers, and artisans work together in a highly energized, artistic, respected summer theatre company.
Embracing a learning-by-doing approach, CSF apprentices work alongside and learn from everyone around them while creating beautiful productions, gaining valuable skills, nurturing artistic identities, building resume credits, making connections, and having fun.
- Apprentices receive on-the-job training with access to top industry professionals both in the shops and on stage.
- CSF Seminars offer apprentices trainings, lectures, and workshops. Weekly check-ins with supervisors provide apprentices real time feedback on professional development.
- Apprentices participate as members of run and changeover crews, learning to rehearse, run, and maintain a professional repertory season.
- Apprentices have the opportunity to put summer skills to work as designers, coordinators, and managers for the annual “original practices” performance.
- Company housing is provided (shared bedroom in 2-bedroom apartment).
- Weekly stipend.
Interested applicants should email the CSF Production Manager, Jonathan Dunkle (j.dunkle@colorado.edu) with:
- Cover letter indicated areas and positions of interest.
- Resume, including (3) references.
Available Apprenticeships:
- Stage Carpentry
- Scenic Painting
- Props Artisan & Props Run Crew
- Stage Lighting
- Stage Management
- Costumes Crafts / Wardrobe
- Costumes Hair & Makeup / Wardrobe
- Costumes Stitcher / Wardrobe