Position: Assistant Director/Choreographer

Location: Ellensburg High School

Reports to: Producer and ASB Coordinator

Contract Amount: $700.00

Job Summary:
The Play Choreographer & Assistant Director is responsible for teaching choreography, assisting with directing the cast, and helping to manage rehearsals. You’ll work closely with the Director, Producer, students, and volunteers to ensure the play runs smoothly and meets the overall vision.

Essential Job Functions:

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  Help the Director with rehearsals, blocking (movement on stage), and general guidance for the actors.
• Help evaluate potential cast members' acting and movement abilities.
• Assist with scheduling and leading rehearsals, including stepping in for the Director if needed.
• Create and teach dance and movement routines for the show, tailored to the cast’s abilities.
• Work with students to improve their dance, movement, and acting skills, ensuring they understand their roles.
• Work with the Director and design teams to ensure choreography and blocking fit the overall show vision.
• Make changes to choreography and scene blocking to fit the cast’s strengths and the needs of the production.
• Help students with stage presence, movement techniques, and acting.
• Assist with organizing the stage, ensuring smooth transitions, and keeping cast members ready for their scenes.
• Guide parent and community volunteers who are helping with choreography or acting.
• Be present at all performances to help with choreography, blocking, and any last-minute adjustments.
• Assist in cleaning up and organizing after the final performance.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Must qualify to work in the proximity of children under the conditions of a WSP/FBI background check.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

This Job description is intended to provide an overview of the requirements of the position. As such, it is not necessarily all-inclusive, and the job may require other essential and/or nonessential functions, tasks, duties, or responsibilities not listed herein. The District reserves the right to add, modify, or exclude any essential or nonessential requirement at any time with or without notice. Nothing in this job description, nor by the completion of any requirement of the job by the employee, is intended to create a contract of employment of any type.

Applicants of diverse backgrounds encouraged to apply

Ellensburg School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Title IX Coordinator and and Section 504 Coordinator,Rhonda Schmidt, 509-925-8011, Rhonda.Schmidt@esd401.org ; Civil Rights Coordinator, 509-925-8007, Alexis.Haberman@esd401.org 1300 East Third Avenue, Ellensburg, WA 98926.