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Job Description / Duties

Theatre Calgary is seeking an energetic and collaborative individual to fulfil the role of Production Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing personnel and all production related aspects of the shows produced by Theatre Calgary.

The role of Production Manager will report directly to the Director of Artistic Operations and offers a unique opportunity to help shape the production department during a reorganisation. Additional production roles will be filled at a later date allowing for a collaborative assignment of tasks and duties.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Detailed and accurate budgeting, financial reporting and control for all production elements, including season shows, overhead, rentals, and personnel
• Overseeing individual production operations
• Direct supervision and coaching of Stage Managers, and production-specific support staff (such as Production Coordinators); indirect supervision of crew and assistant stage management staff
• Acting as a leader with Occupational Health & Safety protocols
• The ability to negotiate with Designers, agents, and skilled technical labour
• The ability to create detailed and efficient human resource scheduling
• A desire to mentor young theatre artists in training
• Acting as lead and point of contact for rentals and stakeholder relations related to rentals

Qualifications / Required Skills

• A positive attitude and a willingness to go above and beyond when necessary
• Exceptional communication, supervisory, and technical skills
• Strong, proven ability to manage, coach and mentor direct reports
• Experience managing production budgets
• Strong organizational skills, including balancing multiple responsibilities and effectively meeting deadlines
• Proven ability to work independently as well as within a team environment
• Experience with contract negotiation, execution and compliance; specific experience with IATSE 212, Canadian Actors’ Equity Association, the Canadian Theatre Agreement, and Associated Designers of Canada are considered assets
• Being adaptable and able to work in a changing environment
• Alignment with Theatre Calgary’s mission, vision and values and commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
• Knowledge in operation of all theatrical departments.
• Creative thinking and problem solving.
• Proficiency with Microsoft office suite is essential, experience with AutoCad an asset but not essential.

Additional Information

Working conditions:

This is a salaried full time position working year round and will require some work during evenings, weekends and holidays. Overtime worked can be banked and offered back as time in lieu.

Theatre Calgary is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and operates within the jurisdiction of the Canadian Theatre Agreement and IATSE local 212. The successful candidate will have extensive knowledge and adhere to these agreements and offer guidance for negotiations.

After initial probationary period employees will be eligible to join our group RRSP plan with employer matching and comprehensive healthcare program. Theatre Calgary also offers 15 days’ vacation at the start of employment, 3 flex days and 8 wellness days as well as a progressive work from home policy.

Salary: $70,000 - $75,000/year

Contact Information

To apply please email a letter of interest and resume by email to Alex Currie, Director of Artistic Operations acurrie@theatrecalgary.com before April 15, 2022. All applications are held in strict confidence.

Thank you to all applicants. Only those selected for interviews will be contacted. For more information about Theatre Calgary please visit our website, www.theatrecalgary.com.

Employer Profile

Theatre Calgary’s vision is to stand amongst the best theatres globally as a leader in innovative, impactful and diverse programming. Our mission is to stimulate, provoke and delight through ambitious programming created to ignite local, national and international engagement in a sustainable manner. Theatre Calgary reflects the communities, the country, and the world we live in with ambitious programming, passionate community engagement and extraordinary productions. For more than 50 years, we have focused our energy on providing our community with the highest level of classic and contemporary plays, featuring the best artists from Calgary and across the country.

Theatre Calgary encourages applications from our diverse community. Theatre Calgary is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We recognize that increasing the diversity of our staff, on all levels, in integral to accomplishing this objective. We are creating policies, practices, and programs that work toward the goal of dismantling systemic racism. We welcome all applications from women and gender nonconforming people, people of color, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and people of all sexual orientations, and all others who may contribute to the further diversification of Theatre Calgary.

In the spirit of reconciliation, Theatre Calgary acknowledges that we live, work and create on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Region 3), and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta. They were the original occupants of this land and continue to be here to this day. Theatre Calgary is grateful to have the opportunity to present in this territory.