Online Career Resources & Professional Organizations
Actors'
Equity Association
The Actors' Equity Association is the labor union representing 40,000
American actors and stage managers working in professional theatre.
Equity's website contains information about the union and its various
departments, programs and contracts, industry-related news and casting
notices.
Actor's Fund
This resources offers a wealth of information for actors, dancers,
musicians, producers, directors, carpenters, stage hands, singers
and others in the spotlight and behind the scenes.
American Alliance
for Theatre Education (AATE)
The mission of AATE is to promote standards of excellence in theatre
and theatre education, connecting artists, educators, researchers,
and scholars with each other.
American Federation
of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
Website for the major union dealing with television and radio artists.
American
Theatre Wing's Guide to Careers in the Theatre
Created in partnership with the Lincoln Center Library, this vast
site consists of printed and video interviews with theatre professionals
in over 30 different aspects of the art form. Helpful theatre
articles and related website links.
American
Theatre Works
A non-profit organization that publishes a variety of theatre directories.
Art Job
Comprehensive, up-to-date national listings of jobs, internships,
fellowships and other employment opportunities in the arts.
Subscription/registration required.
ArtSearch
The publication from the Theatre Communication Group for full-time,
part-time, seasonal, year-round and internship opportunities in
the performing arts. Theatre students may contact the department for username and password for online version.
Artslynx
With a neat and well organized series connecting icons, Artslynx
has master folders dealing with Dance, Visual Arts, Writing, Film,
Arts Administration, Music, Arts of Social Responsibility, Education
and Arts Advocacy.
Arts Net
Artsnet is a clearinghouse of arts management resources available
on the internet.
Association for Theatre
in Higher Education
ATHE is an organization of individuals and institutions that provides
vision and leadership for the profession and promotes excellence
in theatre education.
Association
of Performing Arts Presenters
Excellent site for those interested in the arts administration positions
in the performing arts. Includes a job bank.
Backstage.com
Features performance news, audition announcements, technical opportunities,
and career support services for both New York and Los Angeles.
Backstage Jobs
Free job listing service for all behind-the-scenes jobs in the live
entertainment industry.
Current
Jobs in Performing Arts
A national employment bulletin for jobs in the performing arts.
Subscription/registration required.
Entertainment Careers
Jobs, internships, and career information in the entertainment industry.
Entertainment Employment
Journal
An online, interactive database of jobs and internships focusing
exclusively on careers in the creative, professional, production
and technical areas of the entertainment industry.
eperformer.com
Online site to connect with others in the performing arts.
Hollywood Actors Network
Jobs for actors, singers and dancers posted for a variety of locales.
Useful in examining what the performing arts scene looks like.
Lincoln Center Directors
Lab
THE LCT Directors Lab is a developmental program for nurturing stage
directors from around the country and the world.
Literary Manager and
Dramaturgs of America
LTMD is the most up-to-date way of conversing with dramaturgs, theatre
artists and administrators, our colleagues in other art forms, government
officials, educators and ethnologists, historians, and many others.
Mandy.com
Film and TV production resources.
Musical Theatre Audition
Music theatre resource including audition information, advice and
extensive descriptions of musicals and audition pieces that work
for a wide variety of actors, singers and dancers.
NYFA Interactive
Free national information resources for artists in all disciplines
and for everyone who supports them in any way.
National Performance
Network
NPN brings to national attention some of the most exciting and stimulating
new work in dance, theatre, music and multidisciplinary art being
created in the United States through both direct and indirect support
to touring artists.
New Dramatists
New Dramatists is a unique resource for the American Theatre.
The company is dedicated to the playwright and serves as an artistic
home, theatre research and development center, and writers colony
for the national theatre just a few steps from Broadway. The
company finds and nurtures new talent through a competitive, membership
selection process and a seven-year playwright development program.
Playbill
Online
This site claims to be "the source on the web for Broadway Theatre
information." Provides a wealth of information for both theatre
goers and professionals. Check out their "Casting and Jobs"
section.
The Playwrights
Center
An incubator of new work for the stage and the nation's most powerful
resource for playwrights.
Screen Actors Guild
The primary role of the Screen Actors Guild concerns the members'
wages and working conditions, on their jobs. However, the
website has a terrific links page.
Second City
Training Center
Chicago's famed improvisational theatre training program offering
weekly improvisational classes and performance opportunities.
Showbiz Jobs
Search engine for all types of jobs in the entertainment industry.
Society of American
Fight Directors (SAFD)
A website dedicated to fight directors and choreographers including
information about training, workshops and certification.
Society of Stage Directors
and Choreographers (SSDC)
Major union of stage directors and choreographers.
Southeastern Theatre
Conference, Inc. Job Contact Service
Search for full-time and/or summer employment in theatre, including
technical, academic positions and administration/management.
StrawHat
Auditions
StrawHat is an organization that supports the careers of non-equity
actors and technical artists looking to start and continue their
professional careers in the theatre. Its main activity is to produce
the StrawHat Auditions, which are held in New York every spring.
Theatre
Communications Group
The national organization for the American theatre with over 440
member theatres offers a wide array of services.
Theatre Crafts
The aim of theatrecrafts.com is to eventually be the best resource
for practical information and advice about technical theatre techniques
for theatre folk at any level.
Theatre Jobs
TheatreJobs.com is a source for employment in the entertainment
industry. Online database includes 100's of ads in all fields
of theatre. Subscription/registration required.
United Scenic Artists
(USA)
Represents designers and scenic artists nationwide.
University/Resident
Theatre Association (URTA)
URTA is the country's oldest and largest consortium of professional
theatre training graduate programs and associated professional theatre
companies.
United States Institute
for Theatre Technology (USITT)
Association of design, production and technology professionals in
the performing arts and entertainment industry.
Working
Actor's Guide (Los Angeles)
This website is the online version of the 14th edition of The Working
Actor's Guide to Los Angeles, a resource for performers and other
entertainment industry professionals.