ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES: Performing arts
We're Hiring:
New Works Festival - Technical Director
October-December
Culture Lab LIC is seeking an experienced and collaborative Technical Director to oversee the technical execution of its annual New Works Festival, a celebration of original performance projects developed through the New Works Lab Artist Residency. The festival presents multiple world premiere productions by emerging companies and individual artists, requiring a technical leader who is organized, adaptable, and passionate about supporting artists creating new work.
The Technical Director works closely with the Artistic Director, outside resident artist Producers, Stage Managers, and participating companies to ensure each production is mounted safely, efficiently, and with the highest production standards possible within a repertory festival environment.
EMERGENCE ARTISTS RESIDENCY 2026
Culture Lab LIC's Emergence Artist Residency is a developmental performing arts program geared toward the support and creation of new work. It offers artists & companies free rehearsal and performance space to develop and produce a new performance-based work. Each project will be showcased on one of our stages and presented and promoted as a part of Culture Lab LIC’s "New Works Festival" in November.
Always wanted to find the space and time to write your tech-hybrid dance show? Well, this is the residency for you!
Mediums accepted: We accept proposals from all genres (theater, music, dance, performance art, puppetry, etc.), as long as the work is performed live. This residency is not open to previous participants.
Artists retain creative rights to the work created.