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2025-26 Front of House Staff

HERE is seeking folks to join our Front of House team as House Managers, Box Office Associates, and/or Lounge Staff. Collectively, these positions support all aspects of the audience experience during the entire time patrons are at HERE. These roles are essential to providing a welcoming, comfortable, and accessible experience for audience members. Ideal candidates will be enthusiastic, outgoing, responsible, and self-motivated with great communication skills.

These roles (House Manager, Box Office Associate, Lounge Staff) are flexible, part-time positions, reporting to HERE’s Audience Services Manager. Shifts are generally weekdays after 5pm and weekends between 12pm and 11pm. Depending on your experience and availability, you may be considered for one or more of these positions.

House Manager:
Part-time House Managers will manage all aspects of the audience experience during the entire time patrons are at HERE. This role is essential to providing a welcoming, comfortable, and accessible experience for audience members, while ensuring safety and smooth operation of our front of house processes. Responsibilities include:

Ensure space is prepped for show, including the tidiness of public space, and ensuring proper seats are held for accessibility or other reserved seating needs.

Coordinate with stage manager and box office staff to open the house on time, and close the house when the show begins.

Greet patrons upon arrival, hand out programs, assist with seating as needed, and manage late seating arrivals.

Coordinate accessibility offerings, including escorting patrons to the accessible entrance as necessary.

Tend to any patron complaints, seating issues, etc.

In coordination with Box Office and other HERE departments, attend to special guests including press and VIPs.

Close down the building at the end of the day, ensuring the space is shut down, secured, and locked properly.

House Manager Compensation: $25/hr. See full position description here

Box Office Associate:
Box office personnel welcome patrons to the theater, and support smooth ticketing and check-in processes. Responsibilities include:

Greet audience members upon arrival and check them in via our ticketing system (CueBox).

Process single ticket and membership orders, and assist with group tickets as needed.

Assist patrons with problems or concerns.

Coordinate with House Manager to ensure accessibility needs are met.

In coordination with House Manager and other HERE departments, attend to special guests including press and VIPs.

Collaborate with House Manager to manage waiting lists and late seating, per each show’s policies.

Box Office Compensation: $20/hr. See full position description here.

Lounge Staff:
HERE’s Lounge Staff serve drinks and snacks at the bar for HERE’s public performances and events. Responsibilities include:

Take orders and provide friendly customer service.

Serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks (beer, wine, and seltzer), as well as snacks.

Complete bar reports each shift, detailing sales, any stock updates, equipment challenges, etc.

Manage cash register, including the process of counting change and depositing cash.

Assist in tasks to ensure a stocked, sanitized, and safe work environment.

Lounge Staff Compensation: $16.50/hr plus tips.

Required Qualifications / Personal Attributes

Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of staff, artists, and audiences.

Capacity and passion for creating a safe, generous, welcoming environment.

Experience working specifically with performing arts organizations or experimental/contemporary arts venues.

Creative problem-solver who thrives in collaborative, fast-paced settings.

Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management abilities.

Experience with CueBox is a plus for Box Office Staff and House Managers

Required Certifications: House Managers must have or be prepared to obtain certification as a Fire Guard, and to engage in additional training as needed, including Seats on the Spectrum training around accessibility for neurodiverse audiences.

Lounge Staff must have or be prepared to obtain Food Protection Certification

TO APPLY:
To apply, please fill out this Google form: HERE Front of House Positions Application

For best consideration, please apply by Thursday September 18. All applications will be reviewed by our team, and selected applicants will be contacted for an interview. Ideal start date is October 1, 2025. If you have any questions, please reach out to jobs@here.org.

ABOUT HERE
From our home in Lower Manhattan, HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art. By providing these genre-blending artists with an adaptive, flexible home for developing and producing their work, we share a range of perspectives reflective of the complexity of our city. HERE welcomes curious audiences to witness groundbreaking performances, responsive to the world in which we live, at free and affordable prices.

HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.

HERE’s venues and offices are located at 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 11013.

HERE’s legal name is the Home for Contemporary Theater & Art Ltd. dba HERE and HERE Arts Center.

ABOUT HERE

HERE is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in our hiring process, as well as in all areas of our work.

HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.

BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and differently-abled individuals are strongly urged to apply. We also encourage applications from those who may not have conventional resumes.

The minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees at HERE is $16.50 per hour per New York state law.

From our home in Lower Manhattan, HERE builds an inclusive community that nurtures artists of all backgrounds as they disrupt conventional expectations to create innovative performances in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art. By providing these genre-blending artists with an adaptive, flexible home for developing and producing their work, we share a range of perspectives reflective of the complexity of our city. HERE welcomes curious audiences to witness groundbreaking performances, responsive to the world in which we live, at free and affordable prices.

HERE strives to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive home in which all people have fair access to the resources they need to realize their visions. We acknowledge structural inequities that exclude individuals and communities from opportunities based on race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, class, age, and geography, and seek to counter those inequities in our work. Through mindful actions on sustainability and regenerative practices, we work toward climate justice, and a safe, livable planet for present and future artmakers and audiences.

HERE’s venues and offices are located at 145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 11013. 

HERE’s legal name is the Home for Contemporary Theater & Art Ltd. dba HERE and HERE Arts Center.