UCB Theater reviews

The current ownership have created a culture where nothing is communicated, no responsibility is taken by those in charge when things go wrong, and labor is not valued. We have been told we are not allowed to have raises "until the company is profitable" but the company keeps rapidly expanding into new cities with no actual plan on how to make money while they do it. The conditions of the training center and the theater are disgusting. The classes are too expensive. At the end of the day, it looks like the current leadership are just out to leach every single dollar they can from students and audience members instead of work towards their previously stated goal to "make UCB sustainable."

The CEO, Mike McAvoy. He lets his employees flounder and expects them to read his mind instead of providing actual leadership. Rather than offering guidance, he talks about employees to others, turning the theater into his own personal Hunger Games where everyone is forced to fight for survival. He’s driven away countless overqualified leaders because his fragile ego can’t handle strong Women with clear points of view who are smarter than him. He's a terrible CEO and doesn't provide facts. Instead, he talks in riddles and expects you to understand what he wants. He ignores good ideas, overworks people, and tries to pay them as little as possible for their labor and creativity—while contributing none of his own. His decisions are consistently terrible, and his loyalty extends only to money and power. The environment he’s created is one of fear, chaos, and exhaustion. I feel sorry for the remaining employees. Eventually they’ll burn out and leave, or get dropped at a moments notice because Mike felt like it, leaving those employees wishing they had never been associated with the CEO, Mike McAvoy in the first place. Mike lacks vision. He's the living example of someone who tripped on a job and somehow failed up.