NEW COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP

ABOUT THE NEW STRUCTURE
Always experimenting with the norms of how stories are told, CBT is thrilled to extend our experimental spirit to the structure of our staff. Designed in collaboration with current staff, Board, and outside consultants and based on many months of research into models nationwide, our new structure launches in January 2023. Current year-round staff form the Collective Leadership Team, sharing responsibility for leadership of the company. Season planning and producing will now be the responsibility of a Curation Director, a new position designed to rotate in different artists for a two-season term. We are currently seeking the first artist for the 2023-2025 term.

A NEW ROLE: CURATION DIRECTOR
CBT is thrilled to launch the search for a Curation Director to join the Collective Leadership Team and lead the selection process of artistic projects for Cutting Ball’s 2023-’24 and 2024-’25 seasons and steward projects through production, taking leadership in translating the collective artistic values and vision of the company into its productions. This position will also include the option to act as a Lead Artist for one project per season. Ideal candidates include stage directors, designers, playwrights, performers, producers, and literary/ research based artists with experience working at small Bay Area based nonprofit theater organizations. The Curation Director will work as a part-time employee for two full seasons developing theatrical artistic projects to explore various themes of experimental theater. After the two-season term, the position will be filled by a new theater artist, and the outgoing artist will be invited to join CBT’s Creative Programming Committee. This rotation will allow a wider range of artistic voices to have a creative platform at CBT while centering the organization’s values and commitment to experimental theater. Learn more about this position and how to apply at cuttingball.com/opportunities/curation-director

THE COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
The Collective Leadership Team will be composed of the current year-round staff including Community & Education Director: Cathryn Cooper (she/her), Marketing Director: Estela Hernandez (she/her), Operations & Finance Director: Jess Koehn (they/them), and Patron Experiences Director: S.T. (she/they), plus the two newly created positions of Curation Director and Development Director. The primary goal of the Collective is to balance positional power across the organization, ensuring that all staff voices are heard when key strategic decisions are being made, and to offer everyday professional development opportunities across traditional department lines. All positions within the Collective Leadership Team will be paid the same hourly rate and will have equal voting power for key strategic decisions. Individuals on the Collective will report to the Collective as a whole, and the Board of Directors will act as a supportive oversight body to the Collective. As an experimental theater, CBT believes that the organization is only as strong as its staff of artists, and is prioritizing internally equitable wages for both administrative artists and production artists with the goal to have equitable wage bands for all individuals working for CBT regardless of employee status within the next five years. We aim to approach the San Francisco living wage or exceed that target within the next few years.

CBT looks forward to the new artistic opportunities this leadership structure brings, and is excited to engage with a wider range of Bay Area artists through the rotating Curation Director position. Through this new structure and artistic direction, we strive to bring more historically-excluded voices and experiences to the main stage and re-envision the way stories can be told. Thus producing a more diverse, educational, and inspirational body of work for our audiences and artists alike.