Production Manager
- Employer
- Denison University
- Location
- Granville, OH
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Department/Division Overview:
The Michael D. Eisner Center, named after one of Denison’s proud alumni, is the vibrant heartbeat of creative life at Denison University. Bringing the departments of Dance, Music, and Theatre under one spectacular 108,000-square-foot roof, the Center is specifically designed to champion interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, and risk-taking. From our 400-seat Sharon Martin Hall to our intimate black box and recital spaces, we provide a dynamic environment where student curiosity meets professional-grade performance. We produce over 100 performances a year in five performance spaces, including four plays, two musicals, and three dance concerts, and a wide array of student music ensembles and guest artists
Responsibilities:
Lead the production planning process for the Eisner Center for the Performing Arts and the academic departments of Music, Theatre, and Dance, which includes 4 theatre productions, 2 musicals, 3 dance concerts and approximately 60 concerts per year, in five performance spaces. Establish production calendars, lead production meetings, liaise with management, technical team, designers, faculty, staff, and students to ensure projects are completed safely, on time, and to scope.
Manage production and technical budgets. Plan and coordinate capital expenditures. Budget and track labor costs for both student and overhire technicians.
Supervise the Technical Director of Stage Operations, Technical Director of Production, and the Costume Shop Supervisor. Work closely with the shops on day-to-day operations, project timelines, benchmarks, and navigate conflicts and resolve concerns. Provide additional technical support to shops during overlapping projects in order to ensure student safety and support.
Develop detailed production schedules which address the unique needs of each production, the overlapping nature of projects, and the needs of faculty, staff, and students. Coordinate and communicate complex scheduling for load ins, technical and dress rehearsals, and performance days. Advance guest artists and work with tour managers to ensure that Denison provides an excellent performance experience, while using discretion to implement the artistic vision within our resources.
Establish crew staffing needs for all performances, ensuring performances are staffed with knowledgeable students or supplemented by recruiting and supervising overhire production crew. Recruit, train, supervise, and schedule the student performance crew, who support over 100 performances each academic year. Stage manage complex events, or delegate/ hire stage management for music and dance performances as necessary
Manage safety protocols including emergency procedures during events, health and safety standards in the shops and performance spaces, ensure students have access to community care resources..
Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervising Responsibilities:
Supervises 3 Administrative Staff positions:
Technical Director Stage Operations, Technical Director Production, and Costume Shop Supervisor.
Supervises a team of student employees
Supervises professions on contract and casual labor contracts (overhire)
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree and significant experience in Technical Theater, Stage Management, or Production Management
3-5 years of experience in technical production or management in professional or academic theatre.
1-3 years of experience in a supervisory or leadership role
Preferred Requirements:(Optional)
Master’s degree in Technical Theater, Stage Management, or Production Management
7+ years of experience in production management with significant stage management and supervisory experience
Why Choose Denison?
Denison University is a leading, fully residential liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio, located just outside the Columbus metro area. Established in 1831, Denison blends a rigorous academic foundation with an award-winning approach to student mentorship and career readiness. With a vibrant campus community of 2,400 students and around 1,000 employees, Denison offers employees a supportive work environment dedicated to educational excellence and professional growth.
Denison provides a number of staff-focused benefits, with some highlights:
10% contribution to your retirement
22 vacation days
3 floating holidays
Comprehensive and inexpensive healthcare benefits
Paid campus closure from Christmas to New Years
Free parking and gym membership
Free classes for employees
Want to learn more about us? Visit Denison.edu for more information.
Starting at $68,000
Organization
<p> </p> <p>As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.<img alt="denison_university1.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university1.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p>Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments.</p> <p>As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type.</p> <p>Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community.</p> <p>Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life.<br /> The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college.</p> <p><img alt="denison_university2.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university2.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left;" typeof="foaf:Image" />A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.</p> <p>Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects.</p> <p>Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes.</p> <p><img alt="denison_university3.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university3.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p>At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.</p> <p> </p>
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