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ArtsWest 2026-2027 Season Non-Union General Auditions
ArtsWest held general auditions for our 2026-2027 Season for Non-Union actors in July 2026. We are a small professional theatre under an Independent Theater Contract with Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).
Equity Principal Auditions (EPAs) for each individual production will be held along with Non-Union callbacks throughout the summer of 2026.
Business Manager
STATUS: Part time, 30 hours with benefits; Non-Exempt
LOCATION: Onsite
COMPENSATION: $32/hour
The Business Manager oversees the core business and administrative functions that keep ArtsWest running smoothly and serves as a key operational thought partner to the Producing Artistic Director. The role brings together financial oversight, human resources and benefits administration, compliance, organizational systems, and other ongoing business needs. This position is responsible for making sure important organizational processes are clear, current, and moving forward – from budgets and cash flow to benefits, contracts, renewals, records, and recurring institutional deadlines. Routine administrative and operational tasks are supported by an Administrative & Project Coordinator. The Business Manager works closely with the Producing Artistic Director, ArtsWest’s accountant, department heads, and the Administrative & Project Coordinator.
Administrative & Project Coordinator
STATUS: Part time, approximately 10 hours; Non-Exempt
LOCATION: Onsite
COMPENSATION: $26/hour
The Administrative & Project Coordinator provides flexible administrative, operational, and project support to ArtsWest, helping ensure that important day-to-day tasks and organizationwide initiatives move forward efficiently. This role supports the Business Manager and Producing Artistic Director with scheduling, organizational calendars, project tracking, routine financial administration, records and filing, office systems, vendor and IT follow-up, and other finite administrative projects. The ideal candidate is proactive, resourceful, comfortable taking a task and carrying it through to completion, and able to recognize when additional guidance is needed. The position is designed to provide practical execution and follow-through capacity so that senior staff can remain focused on financial oversight, organizational leadership, fundraising, and artistic work.
ArtsWest’s mission is to produce artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change. We value our community and staff not just for the work they do, but for all that makes them who they are. We recognize that identity contains multitudes and is fluid, intersectional, and at the heart of how the individual creates.
Whether an employee fulfills an administrative, creative or public-facing role, we consider our entire team to be artists in their own right. We are a small, but nimble team that allows for collaboration and much self-directed work, centering relational work over transactional processes. We seek to find individuals who are dedicated to the mission of the organization, embrace anti-racist and anti-oppressive values, and understand the privilege and responsibility that we hold together as theater producers.
LOCATION
ArtsWest is located at 4711 California Ave. SW in the heart
of West Seattle’s Alaska Junction. There is paid parking behind the building, with free parking available on residential streets within 4 blocks west and south of the theater. King County Metro has a stop for the C Line
on the same block as the building.
QUESTIONS?
Feel free to reach out to Mathew Wright, Artistic Director at matw@artswest.org.
CASTING
ArtsWest recognizes that actors are on the frontlines of our work, bringing their hearts, minds, and stories to bear every time they step into the audition room or onto the stage.
At all steps of the process, we seek to create brave, supportive spaces in which actors can thrive and create incredible work. We practice identity-conscious casting and producing, an idea coined by Lavina Jadhwani in her fantastic HowlRound article as an evolution of the practice of color-conscious casting. Some ways this practice shows up can be found throughout the information below. When offers are made, we disclose who else is on the team and keep all updated as artists continue to join the project.
ArtsWest employs mainly non-union actors with limited SPT Tier 5 contracts for AEA actors. Currently, ArtsWest provides at least one AEA contract per production.
Staff / Front of House
ArtsWest values all employees not just for their staff roles, but for all that makes them who they are. We recognize that identity contains multitudes and is fluid, intersectional, and of vital importance.
Whether an employee fulfills an administrative, creative or public-facing role, we consider our entire team to be artists in their own right. We are a small, but nimble team that allows for collaboration and much self-directed work.
As a historically white-led organization, ArtsWest is committed to operating as an anti-racist institution throughout all of its operations. You can read more about our anti-racist commitments here.
Our policies regarding hiring and employment
at ArtsWest are designed to make it clear on all levels of
the organization that we honor and value lived experience and the truths of the
human beings and the energies and talents they bring to their
work. A broad range of lived experiences are welcomed. We invite those whose goal is to create an
environment of abundant and creative space, especially for those
whose intersecting identities and voices have been
historically excluded, marginalized, or erased.