Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company on the campus of DeSales University in Center Valley, PA and the Official Shakespeare Festival of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Each summer, PSF produces a season of Shakespeare and other classics, musical theatre, and children’s theatre, and each fall, PSF produces a Shakespeare tour that visits middle schools and high schools in PA, NJ, and DE. About an hour north of Philadelphia and less than two hours from Manhattan, PSF is summer home to over 200 artists from around the country, including winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Emmy, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Jefferson, and Barrymore awards.
The Festival is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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About PSF:
Heading into its 33rd season the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival operates on the campus of DeSales University. The Festival performs in both the 473 seat mainstage and the 187 seat black box at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on campus. PSF’s company of artists in recent years has included winners and nominees of the Tony, Emmy, Drama Desk, Hayes, Lortel, Jefferson, Barrymore, etc. and headliners from Broadway, television, feature film, etc. Coverage has included The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, etc., and The New York Times has identified PSF in two recent years as one of the leading summer theatre festivals in the nation. Each summer PSF produces a season of Shakespeare alongside other classics, musical theatre and children’s theatre. Our vision is for world-class work.
The Mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs.
The Festival’s core Values: Quality, Shakespeare, Education, Relationships
2025 Season Company Manager
Contract Dates: April 28, 2025 – August 9, 2025
Salary: $625/week plus housing
The Company Manager is a key leader within the PA Shakes hospitality team, overseeing logistics, housing, and welfare for all artists and staff throughout the season. This role requires flexibility, excellent organizational skills, ability to maintain confidentiality, and a proactive approach to ensuring a comfortable and efficient environment for a rotating cast of actors and designers.
Responsibilities:
- Housing & Hospitality: Manage and maintain company housing, ensuring accommodations are ready for incoming cast and crew members. Also responsible for turnover of the housing during strike.
- Transportation Coordination: Arrange a portion of travel logistics, including airport pickups, rental cars, and group transport as needed.
- Personnel Support: Assist with HR-related tasks such as medical emergencies, workers’ compensation claims, mail distribution, and travel reimbursements.
- Inventory & Supplies: Oversee maintenance and inventory of housing supplies and storage needs.
- On-Site Support: Provide additional support during high-traffic times and events.
- Events coordination: Organization and management of specific on-site events.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in hospitality, company management, or a related field.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Effective management skills
- Strong communications skills
- A positive, proactive, and patient attitude.
- Ability to work long, fulfilling hours as needed.
- Driver’s License, and ability to drive company van and box truck. CDL not required.
Also hiring Associate Company Manager, and Assistant Company Manager.
To apply send cover letter, resume and references to Associate Producer, Connie Behringer: [email protected] PSF is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to the principles of inclusion and diversity both onstage and off.
Dance Call Dates: Coming Soon!
Thank you for your interest in the 2025 season of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival! We have concluded our EPAs for the 2025 season. Our follow-up auditions will be held in early December, so please keep an eye out for more information. If you would like to submit yourself for consideration, please follow the instructions below.
VIDEO SUBMISSION:
Following our October auditions, we will begin looking at the video submissions.
Video submissions should be made using the following google form: https://forms.gle/XJjrBBQiiApPrYQx5
The form requires a resume, headshot, and an unlisted YouTube link of your audition; please prepare a monologue no longer than 3 minutes, or any combination of song and monologue not exceeding 3 minutes.
Please be sure to let us know if you are local to the Lehigh Valley area!
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Summer 2025 Season:
The Producers
Hamlet
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
A Raisin in the Sun
Timon of Athens
The Princess and the Frog Prince
Shakespeare for Kids
“Play On!” Community Tour: Much Ado About Nothing
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Summer Season Casting Details
PSF employs 25-35 AEA and a smaller number of non-union actors each summer. PSF operates under a Letter of Agreement and a Small Professional Theatre Contract with Actors’ Equity Association in its two theatres. Employment length is typically 6-7 weeks from the first rehearsal to final performance. Longer contracts for multiple shows. Housing is provided.
Please note that undergraduate acting internships are open ONLY to students attending DeSales University, the Festival’s host institution. As such, students from other undergraduate theatre programs, including current graduating seniors, are ineligible to audition for PSF’s summer season but are welcome to apply for technical, staff, and front-of-house positions.
For more information about auditions, email [email protected].
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ABOUT PSF:
A leading Shakespeare festival with an emerging national reputation for excellence, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company on the campus of DeSales University.
Each summer, PSF produces a season of Shakespeare and other classics, musical theatre, and children’s theatre. About an hour north of Philadelphia and less than two hours from Manhattan, PSF is summer home to over 200 artists from around the country, including winners and nominees of the Tony, Obie, Emmy, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Jefferson, and Barrymore awards. Every year 40,000-50,000 patrons attend PSF from 30+ states – over 1,000,000 patrons from 50 states and many countries since 1992.
Our Mission and Values:
The Mission of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is to enrich, inspire, engage, and entertain the widest possible audience through first-rate professional productions of classical and contemporary plays, with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other dramatists, and through an array of educational outreach and mentorship programs.
WillPower Education Tour
WillPower is the educational outreach program of Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. PSF sends a company of professionally trained and experienced actors/teachers to schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware to teach workshops and perform in a Shakespeare play. WillPower employs non-union performers and a non-union stage manager. The WillPower Tour traditionally runs in the fall with auditions and casting occurring in the summer.
PSF is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to the principles of inclusion and diversity both onstage and off.