Jobs

Penumbra is hiring for the following positions:

P.R.I.D.E. Teaching Artist (Part-Time)
Penumbra has engaged youth for over 30 years through drama, racial equity residencies, and our transformative Summer Institute. Our newest offering, the PRIDE (Positive Racial Identity Development and Empowerment) program, expands this legacy by offering holistic, developmentally responsive education for children ages 2–22. PRIDE uses storytelling, movement, visual art, and other artistic practices to support youth in developing positive racial and cultural identities, healing from harm, and imagining a just world.

As Penumbra prepares to pilot this new program, we seek passionate, equity-rooted Teaching Artists to lead in-school residencies across Pre-K through Post-Secondary age groups throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area. Facilitators will co-create joyful, rigorous learning spaces that blend embodied artistic practice, trauma-aware care, anti-oppression pedagogy, and reflective collaboration. Facilitators will be trained in PRIDE’s curriculum and reflection tools prior to working directly with students.

Click here to review the complete job description. Please send your cover letter, resume, and three professional references. Include “PRIDE Teaching Artist ” in subject line and email to jobs@penumbratheatre.org. Applications will be reviewed immediately, and interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No phone calls, please.

Youth Engagement Director (Part-Time)
Penumbra has been engaging youth through various programs for over three decades. Youth have experienced Penumbra’s artistically excellent, thought-provoking, and socially responsible drama through student matinees and talk-backs led by artists. Young people have benefitted from Penumbra’s racial equity work through in-school residency programs. Teens have spent life changing summers learning art for social change during our six-week Summer Institute. We create opportunities for young people to build community, explore their creative talents, hone their skills, strengthen their voice, and discover how they want to use their gifts to fashion a more compassionate and just society. Today Penumbra is expanding our reach by developing programming geared toward children ages 2-22. Over the next three years, Penumbra will invest in the creation of a holistic educational program focusing on positive racial identity development. Called PRIDE, the program will support diverse children in learning about race and culture at developmentally critical ages.

Penumbra seeks a visionary, institutionally-minded leader who is dedicated to the health and vitality of Black legacy institutions and whose ethos, aesthetic, and body of creative work expresses a clear commitment to racial equity and racial healing. The Youth Engagement Director (YED) is responsible for designing and implementing programs to engage and support young people utilizing the arts, wellness, and equity. In addition to supporting in-school programs and student matinees, the YED will lead the design, launch, and evaluation of the PRIDE program.

Three vital program areas will power the Penumbra Center for Racial Healing: arts, wellness, and equity. The YED will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and must be able and excited to work cross-organizationally with other Program Directors, staff, artists, facilitators, practitioners, youth, and consultants. This is a full-time, exempt, salaried position reporting to the President.

Click here to review the complete job description. Please send your cover letter, resume, and three professional references. Include “Youth Engagement Director” in subject line and email to sarah.bellamy@penumbratheare.org. Applications will be reviewed immediately, and interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis until the position is filled. No phone calls, please.