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PRODUCTION MANAGER
Beth Morrison Projects, one of the industry’s leading innovators in opera-theatre and
music theatre, seeks a full-time Production Manager (PM) to join its team. The PM would
support the technical execution of BMP’s world premiere and touring productions,
ensuring high-quality execution of artistic work.

Core Responsibilities:
Reporting to BMP’s Director of Production, the PM’s responsibilities will include:

• Production Advance:
o With Director of Production, work with designers to develop designs to
preserve artistic integrity while aligning with budgetary and functional
limitations.
o Source and procure scenic, lighting, costume, sound, and video materials
and equipment, including working with external scene shops and rental
vendors.
o Organize and lead production meetings with the artistic company.
o Manage the production advance schedule, including design deadlines,
shop deadlines, and cartage.
o With Director of Production, track and manage production budgets.
o As needed, work with designers to adapt productions to new venues.

• Production Oversight:
o With Director of Production, Creative Producer, and Associate Producers,
develop rehearsal schedules and ensure functional rehearsal rooms.
o Oversee load-ins, technical rehearsals, and strike, managing stage labor as
needed.
o Travel with BMP shows on tour, representing BMP and collaborating with
production/technical teams at partner organizations and venues.

• Production Department Administration:
o Oversee BMP’s off-site set storage and materials inventory
o With Director of Production, oversee BMP’s season and multi-year
development and production calendar
o Actively contribute to internal production and planning meetings to ensure
organization-wide understanding of needs.

As BMP operates on a hybrid model, the PM must be based in the greater New York City
area or willing to relocate. Currently, employees are expected to work in-person at
BMP’s Brooklyn office two days a week, and local travel to NYC-based rehearsal and/or
performance locations is expected. As the PM, it is expected to tour nationally and internationally with BMP productions, significant overnight travel (4-8 weeks a year) is an expectation of this position.

Qualifications:
To succeed in this role, the following basic core competencies are expected:
• Mastery of Technical Theater: Significant experience in all aspects of the
technical execution of live performances (scenic, lighting, sound, costume,
projection/video). Experience with touring productions, or adapting productions
to multiple venues, preferred.
• Design and Budget Management: Experience collaborating with directors,
designers, and other colleagues to develop and execute artistically excellent
designs within budgets.
• Organizational Skills and Attention to Detail: Able to keep track of multiple
different tasks, timelines, and responsibilities; a skilled multitasker; a
commitment to ensuring every piece of information is complete and accurate.
• Flexibility, Adaptability, and Problem-Solving Skills: A comfort within
constantly evolving creative environments; the ability to work through
complications and develop solutions in pursuit of a common goal.
• Project and People Management Skills: The ability to consistently track and
follow through on next steps, and to coordinate the efforts of senior colleagues,
peers, and stage labor to ensure a project is on-track.
• Computer and Equipment Skills: Experience with AutoCAD, VectorWorks,
sound consoles, ETC, and lighting consoles; familiarity with Google Suite
(especially Google Calendar) and Microsoft Office.
• General competency on issues of equity and justice, especially as they relate to
the performing arts.
While not required or expected, the following skills would be an asset for the PM:
• Experience or interest in opera, new music, and/or contemporary performance.
Compensation:

The PM is a full-time, exempt position with a salary range of $65,000-$70,000. All full-
time employees at BMP receive contributions to health insurance premiums. When touring with productions, BMP covers all travel/housing costs and provides per-diem for food and incidentals.

Schedule:
BMP’s standard office hours are 10:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday-Friday; however, some
evening and weekend work is required for this role.

Application and Interview Process:
Submit a resume that details your production management and technical experience,
along with an optional cover letter that speaks to your interest in/qualifications for the
role, via our online application portal. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
We encourage early applications; while those received by Monday, July 28, will receive
priority consideration, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
On our stages, BMP is committed to amplifying a diverse array of voices. To do this
effectively and ethically, we believe our staff needs to reflect the identities of the artists
we support. We strive to be an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and
respected. We are an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications
from candidates whose identities are systematically underrepresented in the performing
arts.

The interview process for this position with consist of:
• 45-minute first-round interviews with the Director of Production, via Zoom,
tentatively scheduled for the week of August 4.
• Final interviews with the Director of Production and other BMP staff, tentatively
scheduled for the week of August 18, in-person at BMP’s Brooklyn office.
• Expected start date of September 1.

BMP’s Mission:

BMP strives to be a leading innovator in the creation of a contemporary canon for opera-
theatre and music-theatre to ensure a relevant and equitable artistic landscape for artists and audiences. BMP invests in emerging, established, and historically-marginalized living composers and their collaborators, giving them the time, space, and resources they need to take risks and make work of the highest caliber. By developing, producing,
touring, and presenting this new American canon, BMP endeavors to have a national and international impact and evolve the field.

Our Values:
• Center art and artists: Our artists and their work are the driving force behind the
impact BMP makes, and therefore are the focus of our efforts, advocacy, and
decision-making. We commit to empowering artists at all stages of their careers
by giving them the resources, support, and home for experimentation that they
need to realize their full vision.
• Focus on the future: Through our thoughtful cultivation of ground-breaking
work and the next generation of artists, audiences, and producers, we contribute to
the evolution of our culture.
• Foster equity: Creating a platform for women and other historically marginalized
voices in our field is necessary to ensure a canon that can speak to all audiences,
now and in the future.

• Cultivate a community: By connecting forward-thinking artists, producers,
administrators, patrons, and audiences, BMP can build a movement to create
lasting change in the industry.
• Act with respect and integrity: Upholding an environment of trustworthiness,
curiosity, care, and responsibility which is necessary for creativity to flourish.

About Beth Morrison Projects:
Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) is one of the foremost creators and producers of new
opera-theatre and music theatre, with a fierce commitment to leading the industry into the
future, cultivating a new generation of talent, and telling the stories of our time. BMP
identifies emerging and established composers who experiment, innovate, and take
artistic risks to evolve opera-theatre and music-theatre into the future. With a focus on the
cultivation of the next generation and diversification, BMP serves as a launching pad for
the future artistic leaders in the field. Through the commissioning, development,
production, and touring of new works, BMP aims to expose audiences around the world
to relevant contemporary American chamber opera and music-theatre works of the
highest caliber.

Founded by “contemporary opera mastermind” (LA Times) Beth Morrison, who was
honored as one of Musical America’s Artists of the Year/Agents of Change in 2020,
BMP has grown into “a driving force behind America’s thriving opera scene” (Financial
Times), with Opera News declaring that the company, “more than any other… has helped
propel the art form into the twenty-first century.”
Operating across the US and internationally, with offices in Brooklyn and Los Angeles,
BMP’s unique model offers living composers the support, guidance, and freedom to
experiment, allowing them to create singularly innovative and impactful projects. Since
forming in 2006, the company has commissioned, developed, produced and toured over
50 works in 14 countries around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning chamber
operas Angel’s Bone and p r i s m.

In 2013, BMP co-founded the PROTOTYPE Festival with HERE Arts Center, which has
been called “utterly essential” (The New York Times), “indispensable” (The New
Yorker), and “one of the world’s top festivals of contemporary opera and theater.” -Associated Press