Call-Out: Producer, The Coffee Shop Musical (Part-Time)

About the role

leo&hyde are a Northern musical theatre company. We're a small and friendly team who get excited about new music, theatre, and technology. The Coffee Shop Musical is a site-specific musical set in and about an independent coffee shop—but told from the perspective of AI narrators. After two weeks of enthusiastically received performances in Manchester, we're looking for a producer to lead on booking and executing a UK tour.

Though it’s a small-scale production, we have big dreams for it touring around the country. The producer will lead on booking several weeks of performances in indie coffee shops, coordinating rehearsals and performances, managing budgets, and envisioning a future plan.

We’re looking for an experienced producer to lead on this journey—someone friendly and proactive to build connections with coffee shops, but also ambitious and organised to build a robust and smooth production.

Responsibilities

• Tour booking: scouting for appropriate coffee shops, building warm relationships with their managers, and conducting site visits (travel is covered).
• General managing: organising the rehearsal and production process, managing the budget, coordinating between creatives, technical, marketing, and actors, and writing contracts and agreements.
• Funding: making funding applications (e.g., to the Arts Council) and handling reporting/evaluations where appropriate.

Requirements

• Experience in producing theatre.
• Confidence to complement the skills of our team and help strengthen our weaknesses.
• Desirable: experience in the commercial sector to lead on developing a commercial model for the show long-term.
• Desirable: experience in site-specific work.
• A Northern base is helpful (initial tour includes Sheffield, Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds), but we work remotely, and being based further afield is fine.

Schedule

• Flexible hours, with availability to attend a weekly Monday meeting.
• 2 days per week from May to July (flexible, with adjustments based on agreement and other commitments).
• Time tracked using Toggle for fair measurement of freelance hours.

Pay

£175/day for up to 20 days (total, £3,500). This contract may be extended depending on the outcome.