COVID wiped out as many as 60,000 Colorado arts jobs in the first four months of the pandemic, according to research by the University of Colorado. But now that theater companies are finally getting back to performing before live audiences, it turns out the virus is creating a few arts jobs as well.
There is a new job title called a “COVID Compliance Officer,” and it is now a required position at most of Colorado’s largest theater companies. The Arvada Center has hired three of them in preparation for its April 30 opening of the play “Small Mouth Sounds,” followed by the planned outdoor musical “Million Dollar Quartet.”