We’re recruiting for a Production Manager & Assistant Producer

We’re recruiting for an experienced Production Manager and enthusiastic Assistant Producer on our major, large-scale collaboration between Emma Frankland, Marlborough Productions and Wildworks next year.

Galatea was written by John Lyly, William Shakespeare’s best-selling but now long-forgotten contemporary, inspiring Shakespeare’s comedies from As You Like It to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, over four hundred years ago, this tale of love, joy and the importance of welcoming outsiders is an incredibly resonant story for our modern times.

Emma Frankland, Marlborough Productions and Wildworks are excited to be reviving Galatea in Spring 2023, creating a ground-breaking, intersectional production that’s newly adapted by Emma Frankland and Subira Joy.

Galatea will be an outdoor and promenade theatre production and will take place on Adur Recreation Ground in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. It will be a bilingual English/British Sign Language production with a mixed Deaf and hearing cast as well as being a majority LGBTQIA+ company with multiple intersectional identities and a chorus of community participants.

In recruiting for a Freelance Production Manager and Assistant Producer, we are particularly keen to hear from candidates from LGBTQIA+, Global Majority, Deaf, Disabled, Neurodivergent and Lower Socio-Economic communities. In recognition of the fact that these groups are currently underrepresented in the sector, we can guarantee an interview for all those who demonstrate how they meet the majority of our criteria for each role.

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Please find more information about these two roles below.

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Reporting to: Emma Hogg, Wildworks and Marlborough Producers Lee Smith and Lauren Church
Duration: End of January 2023 – end of May 2023
Hours: As needed (Will include some evenings and weekends. The Production Manager will need to attend weekly production meetings)
Fee: £800 per week with a £2400 prep fee (£9600 total fee)
Location: Remote and in-person working between Marlborough Productions’ base in Brighton and the rehearsal/performance venues in West Sussex.

Read the job pack here [DOC/PDF].
Read the large print version of the job pack here [DOC/PDF].
Read the easy-read version of the job pack here [DOC/PDF].
Listen to the job pack here [AUDIO FILE].

ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Reporting to: Lee Smith (Producer, Marlborough Productions)
Duration: 23rd January 2023 – 23rd June 2023
Hours: 16 hours/ 2 days a week
Fee: £175 a day
Location: Remote working with some in-person working between Marlborough Productions’ base in Brighton and the rehearsal/performance venues in West Sussex.

Read the job pack here [DOC/PDF].
Read the large print version of the job pack here [DOC/PDF].
Read the easy-read version of the job pack here [DOC/PDF].
Listen to the job pack here [AUDIO FILE].

Application and Selection Process

To apply for either role, please send us…

• A CV and covering letter to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Galatea Production Manager’ or ‘Galatea Assistant Producer’
• Cover letters are also welcome in video form up to 3 minutes, in which you should speak about your relevant experience. 
• Contact details for two referees. (Offer of employment will not be made without two satisfactory referee reports. We will not make direct contact with them without seeking your permission)

Please complete our equal opportunities monitoring form via tinyurl.com/GalateaMonitoring

Both roles will undergo the same selection process and timeline set out below.

Application deadline: 5pm, 6 January 2023
Interviews: 13 January 2023
Roles Start: 23 January 2023

Interviews will be on zoom. We will ask you a set of questions that we will send you in advance and there will also be an opportunity for you to ask us questions.

If you have any questions about this role or the application process, or would like to be sent any of the above documents, please email: [email protected]

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