Suzie Shorten

Curriculum Vitae

Area: South County . e-mail: [email protected] Mobile phone: +353 87 2782 050

Experience Blackbird Event Management 2010 Director and founder:

Home – Other Voices at the Store house – Dec 20 Production manager

South Wind blows - Other Voices – Dingle – Series 19, Dec 20 Production manager

Lake TV DAC for ITV – October 2020. Innocent 2 Covid compliance officer Overseeing and managing the covid protocol department / Risk assessments and daily management of all covid related queries on a TV drama shoot.

RTE – September 2020. Production manager & Covid compliance officer RTE Culture night ‘I am Ireland’

Other Voices – Ballina, Jan-Feb 2020 TV Production manager Production manager for this two-day festival. Logistics, artist advance, crew advance, show schedules & filming scheduling, Location filming scheduling and managing. Overseeing production for the entire artist, crew and production.

RTE Concert Orchestra for Culture night, at Collins Barrack’s 2019 TV Production manager for RTE for this 5,000-cap free event. Liaising with Culture night departments, the orchestra, RTE, Dublin City Council, National Museum of Ireland, Culture night. Budgeting with RTE for the event, working with all firm crew, sound crew, visuals, lights for this live streamed event , YouTube & RTE player, live on RTE radio 1 and recorded for TV broadcast.

RTE Radio 1 Folk awards 2019. TV Production manager on behalf of RTE radio 1. Live streamed for RTE radio and recorded for RTE broadcast.

David Guetta (DJ) 2019 – 2020 Logistics for David Guetta crew worldwide. Dealing with festival and show promoters worldwide, booking flights, transport, hotels and all logistics for David Guetta’s crew.

Sea Sessions Festival, Bundoran 2010 - 2019. Production manager

1 3-day event, Multiple stages, production manager for entire event, scheduling, budgeting, artist advance, supplier advance, ordering, sound specs and lighting & video specs, power and generator ordering, stage positioning, drawings, logistics. Crew logistics and management.

Other Voices – Ballina, Co Mayo, 2018 - 2020, Belfast, 2018 - 2019. TV Production manager Production manager for this two-day festival. Logistics, artist advance, crew advance, show schedules & filming scheduling, Location filming scheduling and managing. Overseeing production for the entire artist, crew and production.

RTE 2FM, Jenny Greene & the RTE Concert Orchestra 2017 – 2019 Production coordinator - Three arena, Marquee , arts festival, , Day tripper etc.

President Obamas state visit to Ireland, artist and concert advance. UEFA – European league finals, hosted in the Aviva Stadium Dublin, hospitality and production talent, local production partners. Beatyard Festival 2018– Artist advance manager MCD – Promoters rep for tour and shows in the RDS main hall with Chic & Nile Rodgers, Tame Impala 3 arena. Jamie T – Trick UK tour 2016. Production mangers for Jamie T, Trick tour. Twitter International 2016 - European Headquarters Dublin. Summer festivals/ Halloween & Christmas events for 300+ people. F.Ounders 2013 - 2014 exclusive event for the web summit key note speakers and guests in incredible locations around Ireland that we turned into event spaces. Guinness Amplify & Arthurs Day 2010 - 2013– producing and managing exclusive secret events in secret locations around Ireland. Guinness -All artist advance and producing secret pub shows multiple venues across the country in 1 day, with 100+ artists Rodrigo Y Gabriela Production managers and technical tour advance for European tour

Tour Management 2017 - 2018 , Le Galaxie. F.Ounders 2015 – Production manager Florence + the machine 2014 - Tour Manager MITS awards show, London – November Headline festival – Orange Warsaw festival, Poland June Heineken Green Spheres / 2000 – 2013 MCD Rep Florence + the machine 2012 –Tour Co-ordinator UK, Europe, arena tour, Australia / New Zealand arena tour/ European festivals logistics, band liaison, Choir tour manager, international travel, flights, hotels and transport, production float and budgets, guest lists, schedules, crew schedules, visas and work permits internationally etc. Dublin international film festival 2008 – Hospitality Manager Arranging and scheduling for all visiting artists / directors and writers attending the festival, internal transport, and festival club and hospitality. 2007 – Production coordinator – European/UK/Scandinavian arena tour. Wolfmother 2006 – Tour Manager – European Tour. 2006 – Assistant Tour Manager. European tours, European festivals, Scandinavian tours, arena UK & Irish tour. festival 2000 - 2012 - Artist advance manager / artist liaison

Skills – Covid-19 compliance trained , screen skills Ireland. HSA Covid -19 compliance trained. Production management & Project management.

2 Multi-task specialist. Procurement manager. Scheduling of multiple events and departments. Computer literate – MAC and PC. Show settlements and accounts, tour budgets, visas, crew recruitment. Crew and personnel management. WordPress trained 2019. AutoCAD training course. Social media manager for Blackbird events

Awards: Winner of the best technical team IMRO festival awards 2020 References: Available upon request

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