Texas Ballet Theater (TBT), the nationally recognized ballet company that serves Dallas, Fort Worth, and all of North Texas, seeks a dynamic strategist to serve as its next Executive Director. As a transformative leader with demonstrated skills guiding organizational change, fundraising acumen, and a love for connecting with people, TBT’s Executive Director will lead a process to fully realize TBT’s potential and impact, all through a financially savvy lens.
Experience building civic and corporate partnerships, collaboratively and openly communicating with staff and artists with unique perspectives, opening and scaling venues, growing revenue, and maximizing the impact of a performing arts organization in its community are also meaningful talents the Executive Director will bring to the role.
This position reports directly to the Board of Governors and partners with the Artistic Director as the co-leader of TBT.
Texas Ballet Theater has engaged Management Consultants for the Arts to lead the search, and interested candidates may apply for this position by visiting this link: https://www.mcaonline.com/searches/executive-director-tbt
The annual salary range for the Executive Director starts at $215,000 and includes a full benefit package similar to other organizations of its size. A search committee of TBT Board of Governors members hope to make a final decision by Q3 of 2026, with the new Executive Director beginning work as soon as possible thereafter.
Organizational Profile
Texas Ballet Theater is rare among North American performing arts organizations: an entity serving a regional metroplex across two major cities. With its professional productions, education, and community outreach initiatives, TBT served nearly 125,000 people throughout North Texas last year. It is the only dual-resident company for both the Winspear Opera House (on the AT&T Performing Arts Center Campus) in Dallas and the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.
TBT traces its roots to 1961 with the founding of Fort Worth Ballet. In 1994, working with supporters from the Dallas Ballet, which had closed in 1988, the company became Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, operating with two separate non-profit boards under the umbrella of a unified company of dancers and artistic leadership providing professional ballet performances and education in both cities. In 2003, the separate non-profit Boards merged into one consolidated organization and the final rebranding of the company became Texas Ballet Theater.
In addition to its footprint in Fort Worth and Dallas, TBT has long had a presence in nearby Richardson as part of its training activities, a confirmation of its status as a premier arts organization for North Texas. More about Texas Ballet Theater can be found at https://texasballettheater.org/.
