Want to jump right in?

Watch this space for current and upcoming volunteer opportunities!

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I think we should start thinking about THE GALA, don’t you?

There will be bartenders and waitstaff and tour guides and builders and painters and raffle attendants and coat checkers and bussers and………

It will be a volunteer assignment that you will most certainly enjoy.

Call 434 977-4177 or email production@livearts.org to talk to Row.

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Volunteers needed as ushers, and to help with box office and concessions.

Set building is going on NOW. check out the calendar for dates
Light Board Operator, Sound Board Operator, Dresser/Wardrobe Assistant
are all positions for you to sign up for today.

Contact Row if you’re interested in one of these positions or would like
to volunteer in any capacity.

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2009/2010 Season

We’ve got a spectacular smorgasbord of plays to choose from. Click here to find out more about them. Maybe you want to stitch costumes, design lights, build a set, learn about props, or sound, or stage management… No matter what you’d like to try, we’ve got the job for you. Contact Row to find out how to get involved in the upcoming season.

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About volunteering in general…

The A-Z’s of getting involved at Live Arts

There’s a lot going on at Live Arts. Sure, a lot of it is entertainment. And a lot of what isn’t meant to be entertainment is still entertaining. But the goal isn’t to give a man a fish. It’s to teach anyone who’s hungry how to fish. The undercurrent of all that happens here is the collective will to empower the community — combined and as individuals — with the skills and creative infrastructure to independently create productions of the highest possible quality.

Volunteers arrive willing to “assist” with set building or “learn about” lighting or wardrobe or sound design. By the end of the run, they depart as skilled artists, technicians and craftspeople. And they return again and again to refine and share those skills. If they leave the area, they export those skills and their passion to other theaters and other communities. Like someone said, all the world’s a stage.

Our youngest volunteer is 9 and our oldest is 89. They come from all walks of life. Some come to have fun, and do. Some come to make friends, and do. Some even fall in love. Some come to network with peers and others who share their love for the expressive arts, and make connections that change their lives. For more information about volunteering at Live Arts, contact, 434-977-4177 x107 or production@livearts.org

Check it out! It’s our volunteer form in full-test PDF format: Volunteer Application [Right Click to Download]

New Volunteers should also download our A-Z Guide For Live Arts Volunteers [Right Click to Download].

Live Arts is Always Looking for…

• Actors
• Bartenders
• Bloggers
• Box officers
• Carpenters (including Master Carpenters)
• Concessions
• Costume stitchers
• Dancers
• Directors
• Dramaturgs
• Dressers
• Electricians
• Graphic designers
• Hair stylists
• Lighting designers
• Light board operators
• Musical directors
• Musicians
• Make up artists
• Painters
• Photographers
• Properties designers and artisans
• Run Crew
• Set builders
• Set designers
• Singers
• Sound designers
• Sound operators
• Stage managers
• Ushers
• Vocal coaches
• and more!

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Volunteer Spotlight

Who:
Ray Nedzel and Kristin Wenger (two of a kind!)

Born:
Kristin: Bedford County, VA. “Where there are more cows than people.”

Ray: Pleasant Hill, PA. “I grew up on a hog farm. At one point we had 49 hogs…until the barn burned down.”

In Charlottesville:
K: Since 1988. Came to get an Education degree at UVA, and never left. “By the time I got my degree, Charlottesville felt like home.”

R: Since 2002. “We came for my then-future ex-wife’s job. You might say I came here to get divorced.”

9 to 5:
K: Education Director, Blue Ridge Poison Center

R: Web Master, UVA School of Medicine

Before Live Arts:
K: No theater experience.

R: BA in Theater from Towson University. NYC: Circle in the Square Theater School, performer and playwright Off Off Broadway. LA: playwright, screen writer, joke writer for Politically Correct with Bill Maher.

Got involved:
K: “I had been coming to shows, and I saw a notice in the program asking for help in the Box Office. That was in the old space, when you worked Box Office then, you worked the entire run of the show. I was fascinating getting to watch how the shows developed, and getting to know how things worked backstage.”

R: “I started as an audience member, and decided to audition for Buried Child. That experience, and many more that followed at Live Arts, are the reason I am still in Charlottesville. The place really does forge theater and community. In my most recent show [Eurydice], I was cast with a filmmaker, an archeologist, a cell biologist, a waitress, a chef. It seems like every show I’m in I meet these fantastically talented people.”

At Live Arts:
K: Box Office volunteer for numerous shows; occasional set building and painting; Assistant Stage Manager for Angels in America, pt. I; Stage Manager for A Raisin in the Sun, Old Times, Urinetown, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, 24 / 7, the 2008 Gala.

R: Acted in: Buried Child, Jesus Hopped the A Train, The Dazzle, Our Lady of 121st St, Eurydice; Director: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia; Administrator: New Plays Project.

How they met:
R: “I went to see Angels in America and was checking out the new space during intermission. Up in the lighting grid I see this beautiful woman dancing to the music that was playing. I thought, ‘I’ve got to meet her.’ So I followed her around during the reception afterwards, and gave her my number. It took us a while to get together, but we finally did. I met the love of my life dancing up in the lighting grid.”

If they were a sitcom theme: Where Kristin adores a minuet, the Ballets Russes, and crêpes Suzette; Ray Nedzel loves to rock ‘n’ roll, a hot dog makes him lose control – what a wild duet!

Ways they are perfectly matched: love of theater, dedication to Live Arts, respect from the community, monster work ethic.

Ways they are different: Only one has bouncing and behaving hair. Only one has a love of goats. Only one has crazy swing dance skills. Only one has a passing resemblance to Uncle Fester.