A Commitment:

All OSF employees are expected to understand and embrace our mission statement. At OSF, our work is making exceptional art by centering the voices, inspirations, and processes of our artists, in particular through the cultivation of spaces and processes that respect and represent diverse ideas, races, genders, sexualities, abilities, cultures, religions, and traditions on stage and off. OSF is an institution that centers on social justice and antiracism in all its operations and practices. OSF company members work consistently with this commitment and work to interrupt behaviors that hinder our diversity and inclusion efforts.

About OSF

OSF is one of the nation’s most important theatres and one of the few remaining large-scale theatres offering rotating repertory and a resident company. The organization is proud to have commissioned and produced an extraordinary and growing number of new plays; the organization’s dramatic growth since 2010 has been mirrored by audiences of over 125,000 patrons each season. OSF has worked for the past decade to dismantle the constructs that center the status quo, including ever-evolving work from artists and staff to grow towards becoming an antiracist organization. OSF’s Board of Directors has also recently committed to centering antiracist practices in their work.

Over the past eighty-five years, OSF has been a destination theatre, with the majority of its audiences making a pilgrimage to Ashland from outside Oregon’s borders. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Nataki Garret, the organization is focused on being both a destination theatre and a leader in the digital performance landscape. OSF’s new digital platform, the O!, seeks to reach beyond OSF’s traditional audience across regional, national and international borders. Thus far people from more than 40 countries have watched an O! experience.

OSF is driven by its values. These four core values imbue the OSF culture:

Excellence: We bring the best possible version of ourselves to our work onstage and to the organization, holding ourselves to be highly artistic, professional, and personal standards.

Inclusion: We include a diversity of people, ideas, and cultures in our work, enriching our art, our relationships with each other, our audiences, and our community.

Company: We sustain a safe and supportive workplace where we rely on our fellow company members to work toward excellence with trust, respect, compassion, and accountability.

Stewardship: We make wise, efficient, and responsible use of all the resources entrusted to us, sustaining our long-standing financial stability, the legacy of our organization’s 8O-year history, and the health of our planet.

When in full operation, OSF has over 400 employees, serves more than 125,000 ticket buyers who purchase more than 400,000 tickets, and performs across three theatres: The 1,200 seat Elizabethan Theatre, the 600 seat Bowmer Theatre and the 400 seat Thomas Theatre. Additional information can be accessed on OSF’s website: https://www.osfashland.org/

Leadership

Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director

On August 1, 2019, Nataki Garrett became the sixth Artistic Director of OSF (following Bill Rauch, and before him, Libby Appel, Henry Woronicz, Jerry Turner, and Founder Angus L. Bowmer). 2019 was Garrett’s first season at OSF, where she directed How to Catch Creation. Her bio may be found here:

https://tinyurl.com/Nataki-Garrett-Bio

David Schmitz, Executive Director

On September 1, 202, David Schmitz became the Executive Director of OSF. Prior to this, David was with Steppenwolf Theatre for 15 years, having served as its Director of Finance and Administration, General Manager, and for the past five years as Executive Director. The full announcement may be read here: https://www.osfashland.org/en/news-multimedia/news-announcements/new-ed.aspx.

Position Overview:

All OSF employees are expected to understand and embrace our mission statement, in particular how it is reflected in our commitment to respect and representing diverse ideas, races, genders, sexualities, abilities, cultures, religions, and traditions both on stage and off. OSF company members work in a manner that is consistent with this commitment and work to interrupt behaviors that hinder our diversity and inclusion efforts.

The Wardrobe Manager supervises the unionized Wardrobe Department, ensuring that the season is successfully implemented, sustained, and closed, including all performances, costume maintenance, and load-out. Provides vision, management, and leadership for the department and facilitates internal and external communications.Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Manages wardrobe personnel, including but not limited to:

a. Assigns and communicates work assignments to staff and manages the day-to-day schedule and workflow of the wardrobe staff.

b. Ensures wardrobe personnel understand and uphold OSF mission and values.

c. Ensures wardrobe personnel understand and comply with AEA guidelines and OSF wardrobe standard practices.

d. Ensures crew’s adherence to safety procedures and creates additional safety protocols when necessary.

e. Recruits, hires, performs performance reviews, manages progressive discipline, and orchestrates and organizes the on-boarding and off-boarding processes of wardrobe staff, FAIR participants, and volunteers.

f. Performs administrative tasks such as payroll, expense reports, and injury forms.

2. Models and supports the mission and values of OSF by:

a. Demonstrating inclusive behavior.

b. Maintaining a safe and anti-racist working environment.

c. Recognizing micro-aggressions and interrupting behaviors that hinder OSF’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) efforts.

3. Attends IDEA, sexual harassment, and any other anti-bias training and workshops as scheduled by the institution.

4. Manages the Wardrobe Department support of shows. Duties include and are not limited to:

a. Organizes and/or ensures organization of all wardrobe functions for individual shows, including working technical rehearsals, troubleshooting, and run crew documentation.

b. Ensures design integrity and quality control of the costumes throughout the season.

c. Ensures the maintenance and organization of wardrobe spaces and equipment.

d. Manages all aspects of the build and creation of understudy costumes.

e. Manages all aspects of the build and creation of rehearsal costumes.

f. Problem solving with Wardrobe Supervisor and Show Team, Costume Designer, Associate Costume Director, Wig/Hair Department Manager, Production Managers, Producers and other Production Departments, as necessary.

g. Collaborates and communicates with the costume department and costume designers to balance the show requirements with OSF resources to meet show and performer needs safely and efficiently.

h. Develops and advocates for Wardrobe’s annual labor, material, and capital budgets in the season budgeting process. Manages budgets throughout the year, keeping leadership apprised of any challenges.

i. Attends Production Meetings, show specific costume meetings; convenes department meetings and show specific wardrobe meetings.

j. Participates and actively engages in Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations.

5. Collaborates, coordinates, and communicates with many internal stakeholders about wardrobe functions. Some examples include:

a. Costume Department: in regard to costume quick change needs and special care of costumes, resources, paperwork, rehearsal garments, cleaning and restoring of costume rental items, and production transfers.

b. Hair and Wigs Department: in regard to coordinating salon/makeup appointments with dressing order, collaborating on quick change choreography, understudy fittings, costume elements styled in wigs, etc.

c. Stage Management: in regard to AEA updates, run crew assignment needs, show breakdowns; keeping apprised changes to entrances/exit locations and run times; collaborating closely with quick changes prioritizing crew and actor safety, and specific needs for any given performance, understudy fittings, etc.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

6. Assist in maintenance, transportation, and cleaning of show and rehearsal costumes.

7. Emergency understudy.

8. Responds to after-hours emergencies and participates in emergency response teams.

9. Represents OSF at organizational functions, and conferences when requested.

10. Advises and/or leads facility maintenance and improvement projects as appropriate.

11. Assist Development and Marketing departments (for example, occasional donor events or creating content re: quick changes for social media outlets).

12. Other duties as assigned by the Director of Production.

Supervision Received: Director of Production

Supervision Exercised: Wardrobe Supervisors, Wardrobe personnel, FAIR participants, and volunteers.