What could be better than enjoying the spectacular view of the lake at Sand Harbor, while supporting your local community?  The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival relies on our fantastic group of enthusiastic volunteers to help run the Festival every year. Joining the Festival as a volunteer offers many benefits including meeting and working with other fun and caring people, supporting the arts in Northern Nevada and earning FREE Festival tickets.  Whether you can support the Festival for a few hours or become involved for many nights, we welcome you to our family of volunteers.

Come join us in 2011 and fill your summer with Twelfth Night as well as favorite events such as the Reno Philharmonic and much more. We welcome individuals and families to fill positions. For corporate and civic groups, it’s a great team-building event. 

Please refer to our Volunteer Calendar to view the days we need help: http://www.my.calendars.net/ltsf .

Volunteer Positions 

The following is a list of the many areas that we could use your help. Thank you for your support!  

Amphitheatre Host

Help to usher and seat guests, monitor compliance with theatre policies, clean-up during intermission and after performance. Assist with distributing surveys. Dinner is provided compliments of the Festival on work nights, provided you agree to close the venue with House Management, until approximately 11:00 pm. Volunteers must be able to maneuver comfortably throughout sand amphitheatre and interact closely with all guests.  

Premium Seating Usher

Check in and assist guests to premium and accessible seating. 

Box Office

Issue "will call" tickets by looking up constituents in our ticketing system, printing their will call tickets and distributing their tickets with the utmost of customer service. Familiarity with data input, attention to detail, organizational skills and an upbeat positive attitude are vital to this position.

Greeter

Welcome Festival guests and answer questions. Assist with directing people from the parking lot to the theatre entrance.  Assist with distributing guest surveys.  

Merchandise Sales Assistant

Assist Festival staff with merchandise sales and the nightly set up and clean up of the gift shop displays.    This position will be filled on Saturdays and select Monday evenings.

Ticket Taker/Usher

Responsible for scanning in electronic tickets, distributing wrist bands, and ushering patrons into the designated seating areas of the amphitheatre. 

Floater

Assumes various positions as needed. Flexibility is appreciated as positions will vary nightly and perhaps throughout any given night.  

Theatre Set Up/Maintenance(Daytime position)

Enjoy the sunshine at Sand Harbor while helping clean & maintain the theatre grounds prior to the start of the performance. Pre and post season positions also available to prepare venue for the season. 

Landscaping Maintenance(Morning position)

Enjoy the peaceful morning sunshine at Sand Harbor while watering plants and trees at the theatre grounds. We are looking for a few dedicated people for this, working as many mornings as you would like. We would prefer a set schedule for the season. This job takes approximately 1 – 1 ½ hour each morning, If you are interested, please add into the comments section your desired schedule (ie: Mon-Fri or Saturdays & Sundays).  

D.G. Menchetti Young Shakespeare (Daytime position) 

Help Festival staff to greet patrons and seat young audience members during our  FREE performances staged for children. Volunteers are needed at various locations; please review the Young Shakespeare Program schedule to see where we will be performing this summer season.