Volunteer: Board Members (National): Leadership Opportunity
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Hedgepig is the leader in finding, curating, and advocating for classic plays for women through our flagship program, Expand the Canon. Each year, we create a resource of curated plays, a podcast, and partnership readings and productions.
We are working toward publishing monologue books, crafting workshops for universities, and delivering professional development for high school teachers. We are working to scale our organization to become the center for gender equity in the classics.
Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre, an award-winning non-profit theater service organization in NYC. We reimagine the classics, creating a legacy of storytelling with gender equity at its core. We work to elevate the voices of women, honor the legacies of women playwrights from history, change what stories are handed down generation to generation.
Our flagship project is Expand the Canon (www.expandthecanon.com). Please check it out! If you find it as thrilling as we do, you might be a great fit for this leadership opportunity.
We currently seek dynamic, diverse, and driven theater lovers to join the Board of Directors in 2024 as we scale our work for greatest impact. We seek volunteers from a variety of professions to help steward Hedgepig into its next stage of growth. We are looking for members with new perspectives, networks, and skills to help take us to the next level.
We especially seek women, people of color, producers, publishers, digital marketers, press savvy folks, networkers, and go-getters to join our Board.
You are a great fit if you are passionate about theatre, the classics, and gender equity, and you want to use your skills and network to build resources that will contribute to the growth and impact of our work.
Board members meet monthly (virtual or in-person), attend events, work to find resources to meet organizational goals, and become an integral part of our family. Minimum of 5 hours per month.
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.
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