We are a small theater and we have been plagued with a bit of a problem that I feel is stunting us. Not sure how to deal with it - and maybe some of you have figured this out in your experiences?

We have rogue volunteers and board personnel. For example, we have a gentleman who is supposed to do our publicity and promos. We have a small committee assembled to do the work and he is supposed to be the chair. However, he never meets with them and the work is not getting done properly and sometimes not at all.

When asked why don't you call the meetings, he responds that people meet enough and he didn't want to have meetings when email can work. I explained that we have small group of people who want to be on a committee and they want to help. I told him he should hold regular meetings and make people feel appreciated and involved. He goes away saying he will...then makes a half-attempt to call a meeting and when no one could do it with 12/hr notice, he says "see no one wants to meet, so I will do it my way."

Then I have others who will not let anyone else work concessions or make posters or paint or whatever...just as a few other examples. The excuse is "I don't want people who don't know what they are doing in my way" or "it is too much to show anyone else, I will just do it myself" or the favorite is "well, no one ever shows up to help anyway, so I won't even ask".

Even though we are small, we are trying to grow, I believe we should tell people over and over we want them and them try our best to include new people wanting to help so we can grow our volunteer base and they DON'T do it or they do it once then back to the old ways of closing shop. This is an all-volunteer theater or yes it is supposed to be.

The current people tend to keep a closed shop. This is a problem for a budding organization and we will not survive long when we are unable to grow our volunteer base.

Have any of you dealt with this sort of thing before? We need some advice.

Maggie