Company Producer

Award-winning game-based theatre company Hidden Track are currently looking for a new Company Producer to support an R&D process for our new show ‘The Price of Everything’ over Nov 2021 – April 2022; with a view to then supporting this production in its future touring and development, and joining our core company team on a long-term basis.

This stage of the project is already fully funded and planned. Through this production, we will be developing our creative process, and R&Ding a brand new show – culminating in a simultaneous live and online w-i-p sharing at The Dukes, Lancaster in April 2022. We would like to use this process to bring on board a new long-term company producer as our existing producer steps back to take on a less hands-on and more strategic relationship with the company.

Responsibilities for this stage of the project will include:

• Communication, coordination, and collaboration with the full company team, including company directors, writer, performers, production team, and graphic & digital designers.
• Communication with external company partners including host venue, community groups, and future programmers/promoters.
• Budget and cashflow management, in close communication with the company directors.
• Liaising with community partners for company outreach and research.
• Contracting performers and creatives, and supporting company directors with matters of HR and team wellbeing.
• Coordinating marketing strategy with host venue, community partners, graphic designers, and company social media.
• Reaching out to new partners including venues, programmers and promoters.
• Following up leads and evaluation at the end of the project.

Future responsibilities as Company Producer will include:

• Supporting the company directors with bid writing and funding applications.
• Tour booking and liaising with programmers/venue partners.
• Developing future marketing and audience development strategies.
• Contributing to the overall artistic strategy of the company as we continue to expand and create new work.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A track record of successful funding bids through Arts Council England and other funding bodies.
• Experience booking and managing tours of small-to-medium scale theatre in traditional and non-traditional spaces.
• A passion for interactive work, and innovative approaches to theatre.
• Strong organisational skills, and great attention to detail.
• Experience working flexibly with different forms and scales of theatre.
• A genuine desire to reach diverse groups of artists and audiences – particularly people who think that theatre is ‘not for them’.

The company directors are based in Manchester and London, and our current company producer is based in Brighton. As such, we are very familiar with and open to different ways of remote working, and so invite applications from across the UK.

The Price of Everything will be an interactive performance/gameshow for simultaneous live and online audiences that explores how life and the cost of living have changed over recent decades, and invites participants to play through ideas about how their city could change in the future. 

Through this R&D process, we will be focused on developing the games and systems that will form the core of that show, culminating in a work-in-progress sharing at The Dukes. After this stage of the project is over, we will be looking to develop the piece into a larger touring show, which will adapt to each new city it visits.

We are offering a fee of £1,500 for approximately three weeks work over the course of this project. You will be employed on a freelance contract and responsible for your own Tax and NI.

To apply, please send a CV and a Cover Letter to [email protected]

In your Cover Letter, please tell us a little bit about your experience with interactive theatre, why you would like to work with Hidden Track, and anything else you think would be useful for us to know.

Deadline 12pm 25th October

If you have any questions about the role or the application/interview process, please just drop us a message on [email protected]