HOW TO VOLUNTEER

Lamp-Lite Theatre is a community playhouse that relies entirely on volunteers, especially in these categories:

• Front of House
• Backstage / Sound & Lighting
• Performers

If you are interested in volunteering (either front of house or backstage), please email us at lamplitetheatre@gmail.com.

Anyone interested in performing in one of our Lamp-Lite plays should email lamplitetheatre@gmail.com with name and contact information to schedule an audition.

If you are scheduled to audition for a role in any Lamp-Lite play, please download the Volunteer Form below, fill it out, and bring it with you to the audition.

 The Lamp-Lite Players now hold auditions before each play throughout the season, in addition to the children's  auditions for our annual summer musicals. 

The play director for each production is responsible for overseeing the audition(s) for that particular play. Click here for the Audition Schedule for the 2024-25 Lamp-Lite Theatre Season.  

We are  always eager to find new performers — adults of all ages, teens,  singers, actors — to enhance and expand our coterie of performers.

Anyone interested in performing in one of our Lamp-Lite Theatre plays should ​download the Volunteer Form, fill it out, and email it to lamplitetheatre@gmail.com. Also, please bring a copy with you to the audition. 

It is the “out front” volunteers that our patrons and customers have  the most frequent or direct contact with. Volunteers help us meet our  objective of making every patron’s theater-going experience a pleasant  and enjoyable one. The work is not difficult, but it does require an  interest in assisting Lamp-Lite patrons.

"Front-of-House" Volunteers serve in three main areas as follows:

• Box Office — On performance days, the box office will open beginning 45 minutes  before curtain. Box Office volunteers are responsible for selling  tickets (cash, check or credit card), including “will call” tickets, as  well as completing daily audience attendance sheets and cash receipts at  the end of their shift. The Box Office also coordinates with BACKSTAGE  on when to turn reception area lights on and off during the performance  and intermission. Volunteers must report for duty to the House Manager  one hour before curtain.
  
• Ushers — Ushers  are stationed at the lobby entrance into the theater seating area and  are responsible for collecting tickets from patrons, as well as handing  them a program. Ushers will tear the ticket in half, returning one half  to the patron and putting the other half in the basket by the door. This  basket will be used to calculate the daily audience attendance and, at  curtain time, will be given to the Box Office for counting. Volunteers  must report for duty to the House Manager one hour before curtain.
  
• Snack Bar Concession — The two snack bar volunteers are responsible for selling concessions,  including soft drinks, water, coffee and snacks. They are also  responsible for selling T-shirts (both for current performance and  previous performances), as well as making coffee and ensuring that  sufficient soft drinks and water are in the cooler. Volunteers must  report for duty to the House Manager one hour before curtain.
  

All volunteers will receive a COMPLIMENTARY TICKET to that day’s performance and, once the lights go down, they may take a seat in the auditorium and enjoy the play.

After the play, volunteers will help tidy up the theater and empty the waste baskets into the dumpster outside.

If you would like to become a FRONT-OF-THE-HOUSE volunteer, download a copy of the Volunteer Form, fill it out, and email to the HOUSE MANAGER at lamplitetheatre@gmail.com.

BACKSTAGE VOLUNTEERS — A crucial part of a live performance happens behind the scenes, both before a production is mounted and during its run.

The  four-to-six week period between plays is an extremely busy one for our  crew of volunteers. Just as soon as one of our plays is completed, work  begins on set construction for the next play. Scenery must be built and  painted, props built or acquired, costumes created, etc.

If you would like to become a BACKSTAGE volunteer, download a copy of the Volunteer Form, fill it out, and email to lamplitetheatre@gmail.com.

SOUND & LIGHTING — Stage  lighting and sound, including music, are absolutely critical elements  to any stage performance. As a non-profit community theatre, all of our  sound and lighting personnel are unpaid volunteers who draw satisfaction  from their love of theatre.

Each performance requires two people  in the sound and light booth. Volunteers should be available for every  performance of the two-week run of that particular play, in addition to  several rehearsals.

If you would like to become a SOUND & LIGHTING volunteer, download a copy of the Volunteer Form, fill it out, and email to lamplitetheatre@gmail.com.

Sound & Lighting — Brian Oswald at boswald@sfasu.edu