Orchestra Stage Manager
Richard B Fisher Center For The Performing Arts @ Bard College
United States, New York, Annandale On Hudson
Posted on: July 26, 2025
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Description:
Reporting directly to the Production Manager, the Orchestra Stage Manager assists in the planning, preparation, and physical implementation of all rehearsals and concerts both at the Fisher Center and at the Bard College Conservatory of Music. This is an in-person, year-round, non-exempt (overtime-eligible), hourly position paid at an hourly rate of $22 per hour, commensurate with experience. The position will start approximately on October 1, 2025.
Approximately 30-plus hours per week during performance weeks in the fall and spring semesters of the Bard academic year and 40+ hours per week during the Bard Music Festival.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Maintain a safe, healthy, and inclusive workplace at all times.
Communicate with the Orchestra Manager to determine the needs of each program.
Coordinate and manage the installation of stage plots and stage changes.
Coordinate and manage equipment and instrument deliveries across campus.
Assist the Associate Production Manager in scheduling the overhire crew.
Manage the overhire crew in the Associate Production Manager+rsquo;s absence.
Assist the Associate Production Manager with equipment and instrument rentals.
Run and call orchestra rehearsals, technical rehearsals, and performances.
Company-Wide Responsibilities:
The Fisher Center is currently undergoing an organization-wide process of change toward becoming an anti-racist, multicultural institution. All on staff are expected to:
Commit to anti-racism and inclusivity at the Fisher Center. This includes participating in any trainings when scheduled, supporting departmental, company-wide, and cross-departmental collaboration in issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and furthering your own independent journey with anti-racism.
Contribute in meaningful ways to the organizational culture.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
EXPERIENCE
Theatrical production management and/or stage management experience.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
Ability to work in an organized, self-directed, and detailed manner.
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
Ability to support collaborators of all experience levels, including students, young professionals, and lifelong professionals.
Basic knowledge of theatrical lighting and sound systems.
Strong knowledge of Google Suite and Microsoft Office.
Successful candidates possess strong communication skills and keen attention to detail. They are collaborative, self-motivated, and bring a positive, can-do attitude!
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Knowledge of classical musical production preferred.
Ability to read music is a plus.
Experience driving trucks up to 24+rsquo; is a plus.
WORKING CONDITIONS
Ability to work nights and weekends.
Ability to lift 30 lbs.
Ability to work around live music for extended periods of time.
LOCATION
Bard+rsquo;s beautiful 1,000-acre campus is situated on the east bank of the Hudson River in Annandale-on Hudson, New York. Community life is defined by numerous cultural and recreational opportunities in the surrounding historic Hudson River Valley and by proximity to New York City. Nearby towns and villages include Rhinebeck, Tivoli, and Red Hook, New York.
TO APPLY
Complete the application form here: https://formfaca.de/sm/mhHDce4pN.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
For any access-related requests, questions, or issues with the application form, please contact [email protected].
Bard College is an equal-opportunity employer, and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information. Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.
ABOUT THE FISHER CENTER
The Fisher Center is a premier professional performing arts center and a hub for research and education that demonstrates Bard College+rsquo;s commitment to the performing arts as a cultural and educational necessity. To support artists, students, and audiences in the examination of artistic ideas, the Fisher Center develops, produces, and presents performing arts across disciplines through new productions and context-rich programs that challenge and inspire.
Home is the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry and located on the campus of Bard College in New York+rsquo;s Hudson Valley. This world-class theater building will be complemented by a new studio building designed by Maya Lin, scheduled to open in 2026. More than 200 events and 50,000 visitors are hosted at the Fisher Center each year, and over 300 professional artists are employed annually. As a powerful catalyst of art-making regionally, nationally, and worldwide, the Fisher Center produces 8 to 10 major new works in various disciplines every year. The Fisher Center offers outstanding programs to many communities, including the students and faculty of Bard College, and audiences in the Hudson Valley, New York City, across the country, and around the world. Building on a 165-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow+rsquo;s thought leaders.
The Fisher Center was born from the Bard Music Festival, founded in 1990, which, for the first 13 years of its existence, occupied several spaces on campus, including a large tent. Each summer, the Music Festival focuses on the life, work, and influences of one composer, promoting new ways of understanding and presenting the history of music to a contemporary audience. When the Fisher Center and its two theaters opened in 2003, the summer festival expanded to include a fully staged opera, as well as theater and dance performances. The highly acclaimed opera program brings unjustly neglected works to the stage in major productions+mdash;often making their US debuts.
Through Fisher Center LAB, the Center+rsquo;s acclaimed residency and commissioning program, artists are provided with custom-made support toward their innovative projects, and their work has been seen in over 100 communities around the world. Resident choreographer Pam Tanowitz+rsquo;s 2018 Four Quartets was recognized as +ldquo;the greatest creation of dance theater so far this century+rdquo; by The New York Times. In 2019, the Fisher Center won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for Daniel Fish+rsquo;s production of Oklahoma!, which began life in 2007 as an undergraduate production at Bard and was produced professionally by the Fisher Center in 2015 before transferring to New York City. Illinoise, a 2023 Fisher Center world premiere from artists Sufjan Stevens, Justin Peck, and Jackie Sibblies Drury, was recognized with a Tony Award for Best Choreography following its tour and transfer to Broadway.
The Fisher Center is home to several of Bard+rsquo;s academic programs in the performing arts. Year-round, it hosts performances by the undergraduate Dance Program and Theater and Performance Program; the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music; The Orchestra Now (TŌN), a Bard graduate program that is training the next generation of classical-music ambassadors; and students at the Bard Conservatory, the first (and so far only) conservatory to require all its students to pursue a bachelor of arts degree in a field other than music in addition to their specialized music studies. As a hybrid institution, the Fisher Center brings together professional and academic art-making of the highest caliber, where student and professional artists work side by side, learning from each other and informing one other+rsquo;s practices.
Application Deadline:
Sept. 30, 2025
Job Duration:
Open ended
Job/Audition Type:
Full Time
Job Category:
Technical/Show Support
Payment status:
Paid
Job Location:
United States,
New York,
Annandale On Hudson
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India, Bangalore
United Kingdom, TBA
