The Carne Deputy Director Part-time (3 days a week); self-employed 1 year starting April 2021 £15,000

SUMMARY

As the Carne Deputy Director at Jermyn Street Theatre, you will be at the artistic heart of a busy producing theatre. You will be involved in all aspects of creating our work, including administration, budgeting, casting, contracting, fundraising, general management, literary management, marketing, producing and sales. It is likely that you will work as associate director on some productions, and there is the

potential for you to direct work. You will be mentored by our Artistic 2019. Director and deputize for him when appropriate.

We are looking for a theatre director with the ambition and aptitude to become an artistic director in the future. You will be a theatre director with proven experience, skills, and a passion for plays. It is likely that you are interested in artistic leadership, but your career has not yet That Ends Well, Well All’s provided you with a chance to learn those skills, or to develop them.

This role is a fixed term contract for three days per week for one year. There will be some evening and weekend work, for which TOIL will be given. Where possible, we are open to discussions about hours where more flexibility is required (for example in relation to childcare). This role is made possible through funding from the Carne Trust. Robert Moutford and Hannah Morrish in Photo by Matt Pereira Programming – script reading and reporting, talking to potential collaborators, literary development, and an active role in helping to programme the work.

Friends and audiences – creating and maintaining strong relationships with our Friends and audiences, including running events (e.g. social events, readings, Q&As). , 2019 Marketing and publications – we are always busy with the preparation of season brochures, print, online advertising, newsletters, foyer displays, press releases, programmes and playtexts. For Services Rendered For Casting and recruitment – creating lists, checking availabilities, booking auditions, using Spotlight, assisting with contracts for actors and creatives, dealing with agents, maintaining gender balance, and continuing to diversify our creative teams.

Rachel Pickup and Jotham Annan in Photo by Robert Workman Administration – working with the Resident Producer on all the administrative aspects of running the productions.

Fundraising – we have no regular funding and instead rely on JOB DESCRIPTION the generosity of a group of private donors and trusts and foundations. You will be involved in writing funding applications, researching potential donors, helping with appeals, and looking after our existing The Deputy Director will deputize for Artistic Director and Executive Friends networks. Producer, Tom Littler, across all aspects of the artistic and commercial leadership of the theatre. This is a training position, and the Deputy Director will be mentored and guided, but we are looking for someone Networking and ambassadorship – helping who brings substantial talent and experience to the table. to develop our network of stakeholders, artists, and industry allies; attending productions on our behalf; having meetings with potential There is no typical day, or even typical week. With a team of five, all collaborators, and generally representing the theatre. core staff help each other and cover each other’s desks. Although there are some clear areas of responsibility for the Deputy Director, there is also space to make this role your own.

You will spend time in the following areas, but we expect you to be proficient in some aspects and a beginner in others. Do not be put off if some of these are skills you do not yet possess:

Artistic development – in 2020 we established a group of 16 early-career Creative Associates whom we nurture and support. You will be their primary point of contact, and you will play a key role in recruiting the next intake of Creative Associates to start in spring 2022. You will often be the first point of contact for artists and , 2020. producers wanting to work at the theatre.

The (digital?) rehearsal room – there will be ample room to pitch, develop, and direct digital productions and 15 Heroines: The Desert develop ideas for Sunday evening or daytime events. You will probably be assistant/associate director on some of the work we create in 2021—2022. Martina Laird in Photo by Shonay Shote RESPONSIBLE TO PERSON

Artistic Director and Executive Producer SPECIFICATION

The successful candidate will be someone interested in becoming RESPONSIBLE FOR an artistic director of a building or company one day. You will be an ambitious all-rounder, willing to get your hands dirty with the many aspects of being an artistic director that do not involve directing plays. Creative Associates (unpaid early-career associate artists) You will be an initiative-taker who is willing to ask for advice; calm and good-humoured under pressure; a leader who is happy in a team; , 2019 humble enough to do any task, but confident enough to take ideas and run with them. You will be compassionate, creative, organised, and MENTORING hard-working. Original Death Rabbit Essential: This is a training position. We expect you to arrive with a significant skill-set and the aptitude to learn quickly, but we will also support you. • Between two years’ and six years’ professional experience of Kimberley Nixon in If you feel you need to develop skills, we will do our best to help you Photo by Robert Workman directing, either as an assistant/associate in major venues (in build those up. the commercial or subsidised theatres) or as a director making work of exemplary quality on the fringe or elsewhere. Your lead mentor will be Tom Littler. Besides an ongoing conversation • A passion for a wide range of intelligent and entertaining text- with Tom about your career ambitions, he will also meet with you once based plays and theatre. a month, and arrange introductions to other Artistic Directors when • A demonstrable interest in, and some experience of, producing possible. According to your needs and interests, there will also be and associated elements of arts administration. additional mentoring sessions with other members of staff or contacts • Tact, discretion, and great interpersonal skills including within other theatres. excellent written English. • Commitment to inclusion and diversity among theatre freelancers.

Desirable:

• Video/film skills and experience; graphic design expertise and experience. • Good relationships throughout the theatre scene with literary, creatives’ and actors’ agents, with producers, with writers, with actors, and with creatives. • Experience with casting, and with contracting creatives and actors. • Fundraising experience including a track-record of successful bid-writing. • Experience of dealing with major private donors and Friends schemes.

, 2020 • An extensive knowledge of modern and historical plays and playwrights , 2019. • Experience of developing inclusion and diversity in a workplace or institution. Agnes Colander 15 Heroines: The Desert Matthew Flynn in Photo by Robert Workman Rosalind Eleazar in Photo by Marc Brenner EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES TO APPLY

Jermyn Street Theatre is committed to equality of opportunity for Please send: all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless • A covering letter of no more than one page of A4, paying due of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, attention to the person specification above. Please be as specific pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil as you can about your skills and experience. partnerships. • A CV of no more than one page of A4 including the contact details of two referees (we will not contact them unless we see We strongly encourage applications from people with backgrounds you for a second interview). currently under-represented in our organisation, including people with • The application form. disabilities, LGBTQ+, working class, Black, Asian and other ethnically diverse people. Please send by email to [email protected]

All candidates declaring a disability who meet the minimum criteria There is also an equal opportunities form. An email copy should be sent will be offered an interview. to [email protected]

TIME COMMITMENT DEADLINE

We expect a time commitment of, on average, three days per week Wednesday 10 February at 12 noon. Any applications arriving after throughout the year. There will be some evening and weekend work for this will not be considered. which TOIL will be provided. There will be 20 days of holiday (12 days plus 8 public holidays). You will work from home and from our central London theatre.

You should expect that some weeks will be busier than others, INTERVIEWS and we will also do our best to accommodate your personal and professional commitments. We recognise that you will be working elsewhere throughout the period. However, we are looking for a regular First round interviews will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 16 February. commitment of time, and so the period probably cannot overlap with Second round interviews will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 23 your directing or producing a full production at another theatre. There February. will be a trial period of two months. REMUNERATION AND QUESTIONS

STATUS Potential candidates are welcome to email Cat Robey, the current Carne Deputy Director, for an informal chat about the role: [email protected] £15,000 over the year. These funds are provided by the Carne Trust to Jermyn Street Theatre. You will remain a self-employed contractor For questions about the application process, please throughout the period and will invoice monthly. email [email protected] Helen Reuben in Pictures of Dorian Gray, 2019. Photo by Sam Taylor OVER THE YEARS

During the 1930s, the basement of 16b Jermyn Street was home 1930s to the glamorous Monseigneur Restaurant and Club. The staff changing rooms were transformed into a theatre by Come Howard Jameson and Penny Horner (who continue to serve as early 1990s Chair of the Board and Executive Director today) in the early 1990s and Jermyn Street Theatre staged its first production in 1994 August 1994. on in... Neil Marcus became the first Artistic Director in 1995 and secured Lottery funding for the venue; producer Chris Grady also 1995 made a major contribution to the theatre’s development. “ I hope many In 1995, HRH Princess Michael of Kent became the theatre’s others will Patron and David Babani, subsequently the Artistic Director late 1990s of the , took over as Artistic Director have the until 2001. Later Artistic Directors included Gene David Kirk and opportunity to Anthony Biggs. work in such In 2012, the theatre won the Stage Award for Fringe Theatre of 2012 the Year. an important theatre – it’s In 2017, Tom Littler restructured the theatre to become a full- time producing house. an incredible 2017

place.” The Rosalie Craig

WHO WE “ Unerringly , 2018. Photo by Robert Workman.

directed ... no Stitchers ARE one in this tiny theatre dared Jermyn Street Theatre is the transferred to the West End Rattigan, Lillian Hellman, West End’s smallest producing and Broadway. , Stephen breathe. theatre. Led by Artistic and Sondheim, Tenessee Williams The Observer” and Andrew Dennis in Victoria Yeates , 2020. Photo by Robert Workman; Executive Directors Tom We’ve premiered plays by and Noel Coward. Emerging Littler and Penny Horner, Howard Brenton, Lorna French, talents mingle with the likes of the programme includes Alice Allemano, Steven Berkoff, , Sinead Cusack, Beckett Triple Bill Triple Beckett outstanding new plays, rare Timberlake Wertenbaker, Olivia Williams, Patsy Ferran, revivals, new versions of Juliet Gilkes Romero, Esther Nadine Marshall, Tuppence

European classics, and high- Freud, Gail Louw, Chinonyerem Middleton, David Threlfall, in Jermyn Street Theatre, 2020. Photo by Marc Brenner. quality musicals, alongside Odimba, Bryony Lavery, Sarah Lisa Dwan, Alan Cox, Doña

one-off musical and literary Daniels, and countless others, Croll, Rosalie Craig, Eileen 15 Heroines events. We collaborate with and we’ve rediscovered work Atkins, and our Patron, Michael Martin, 2020. Photo by Robert Docherty Workman; and Sinead Cusack in theatres across the world, by writers including Terence Gambon. (Clockwise from top) David Threlfall in Dog Walker and our productions have Rehearsals for Since 2017, Jermyn Street Theatre has been a full-time over 12,000 producing theatre. We normally create around ten full-scale audience members enjoyed our productions a year, often working together with regional theatres. free 13 hour The Odyssey We are a theatre run by freelancers, for freelancers. We try to provide a caring and supportive environment for everyone who over works with us. We get to know our audience members well, and 3,500 households bought tickets for our Friends and donors are an important part of our family. 15 Heroines

Our small seating capacity means subsidy and charitable support are essential to our business model. over 300 freelancers The theatre’s co-founder, Howard Jameson, continues as Chair of employed Trustees today. The theatre is led jointly by its other co-founder and Executive Director, Penny Horner, and its Artistic Director and Executive Producer, Tom Littler. “ Not only has 154 Sonnets read by stars and Jermyn Street recent graudates survived these By September we had set up and we produced an online our Opening Doors scheme performance of Emily Wilson’s twin disasters, over 50 Tiny Plays faciliated which sponsored three diverse translation of The Odyssey it has emerged groups of early-career artists with the London Review to use our empty theatre space Bookshop, commissioned 12 as a stronger, 47 and allow them to workshop actors to create and perform more diverse, episodes of cabaret songs their new plays. 16 Creative bedtime stories from their performed in Sing For Your Associates, made up of some of different heritages through In more outward- Supper the applicants to our Opening Dreams We Wake, and co-

, 2020. Photo by Robert Workman. looking and Doors scheme, became part of produced a zoom production 16 our family. of A Christmas Carol with more exciting Creative Associates Guildford Shakespeare The Tempest supported Our artistic output flourished Company, starring Brian organisation towards the end of the year Blessed and Penelope Keith. than before.” 15 Whitney Kehinde in Whitney Kehinde The Stage female and non-binary playwrights commissioned to rewrite Ovid’s Heroides ADAPTING 12 bedtime stories TO from different heritages COVID-19 10 episodes of in-house podcast Fundraising work stabilised Zoom production of The Wind series In March 2020, closure of the our recovery over the course of in the Willows reached out to theatre due to the Covid-19 2020 and enabled the artistic and comforted our audiences. pandemic was almost output to continue. Digital 5 core staff members permanent. Despite the projects such as The Sonnet Behind the scenes, we held financial jeopardy we faced due Project, featuring drama school monthly online play reading to the closure of The Tempest graduates and household clubs, connected freelancers 3 and a catastrophic flood that names Olivia Colman and David to shielding audience members groups of early-career artists destroyed our workshop, Suchet, Sing For Your Supper for weekly phone calls and sponsored archives, and dressing led by Stefan Bednarczyk, a initiated the creation of over rooms, we were saved by the podcast series Prompt Corner, 50 miniature plays from generosity of a crowdfunding an audio version of One Million audiences across the UK. 2 appeal to our audience. Tiny Plays About Britain and a interactive Zoom co-productions 15 Heroines was our flagship 2020. Artistic Director Tom Autumn production in which Littler and Executive Director we commissioned 15 leading Penny Horner were recognised Top Ten Theatre of 2020 female and non-binary in The Stage 100 for their playwrights to adapt Ovid’s commitment to producing Heroides. Directed by Adjoa theatre in the most difficult of Andoh, Tom Littler and Cat circumstances. Robey and performed live from our empty theatre space then Jermyn Street Theatre is a captured by Digital Theatre +, charitable trust, Registered 15 Heroines featured a stellar Charity No.1186940. It cast including Olivia Williams, receives no regular funding or Nadine Marshall and Patsy grants, and many of its staff Ferran. are volunteers. Overheads and Praise for 15 Heroines from the press: production expenses are met In January 2021, we were by ticket sales and charitable awarded Fringe Theatre of donations. To find out more, Broadway World the Year by The Stage Awards see Our Charity on our website. for our efforts throughout

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Nearly 40,000 audience members have come to see our shows in our first two and a half years as a producing theatre. We work with theatres across the country, co- We have produced 15 world premiere shows in our 70-seat producing and touring space off Piccadilly Circus. premieres, revivals and classics with theatres 30 new plays have been published in the UK after beginning and Cumbria Scarborough here. Pattison. , 2019. Photo by Keith companies such as York

In 2020, our digital content on YouTube was viewed Julie Miss Guildford Shakespeare 117,896 times. Company, , The Oxford Bath Sonning Mill at Sonning, When producing shows, of our income comes from The Watermill 58% Theatre and the Box Office, with the remainder relying on charitable donations Guildford from the public, private funding and support from members of our Theatre Royal Bath. Newbury

Friends Scheme. James Sheldon and Charlotte Hamblin in Chichester

“ A set of gems 2018. “ In Jermyn Street Theatre’s “ A beautiful in a small intimate confines, every scene piece of black box. at 8.30, Tonight feels like an intrusion into Financial Times” theatre. some private moment, like ReviewsHub” eavesdropping on a stranger’s , 2017. conversation.

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At Jermyn Street Theatre, we have a core team of five staff members, supported by a dedicated network of those who run the theatre building, produce its artistic output, and look after our Associate Artists.

Board of Advisory Board Trustees - new in 2021

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Yet another The Ice Cream Boys “ Front of House Deputy Director Marketing and Artistic Associates Freelance triumph for Building Manager Venue Technicians Resident Producer and Box Office (part time) Graphic Design (advisory) Creatives Jermyn Street Theatre. Sardines” Interns/ Creative placements in Bu Kunene and Andrew Francis in Photo by Robert Workman Associates higher education REPRESENTATION

We have a commitment that at least 50% of all our onstage and offstage teams must be female each year. On shows between August 2017 and December 2020,

66% of our writers and production teams and , 2018.

57% of our actors “ This gem of About Leo identified as women. a play is as We also believe in producing , 2018 . theatre that is representational beautiful as it and empowering, and are keen to

hear from producers, directors, is profound. at 8.30 Tonight playwrights and their agents The Guardian” An

Phoebe Pryce and Susan Tracy in Phoebe Pryce and Susan Tracy Photo by Robert Workman “ from the LGBTQ+ community, extraordinary especially those who self-identify as trans and non-binary. relationships with, more Black, all actors, stage management and feat of Asian, and ethnically diverse creatives must be paid at least teamwork. We are actively seeking to employ, creatives. We are signatories to the National Minimum Wage. The Independent” and forge long-term working the Equity Fringe Agreement, so Ben Wiggins and Boadicea Ricketts in Photo by Robert Workman