Venue Technician - Fringe Futures Festival

The Pleasance Theatre Trust aims to recruit a highly motivated and multi-skilled Venue Technician to oversee the successful delivery of the Fringe Futures Festival at it’s London fringe theatre. Taking place in the reconfigured Downstairs theatre space, this 5 week work in progress festival will welcome a new production each day.

The Venue Technician will be the lead technical contact for all festival productions, working closely with them whilst in the space and providing technical support during performances. In addition to maintaining health and safety procedures, they will be responsible for ensuring that all activity complies with the Pleasance Theatre’s covid security measures, which have been devised to enable safe public performance in this reconfigured space.

The Venue Technician will have excellent communication skills, a thorough knowledge of technical practices, a passion for theatre performance and the ability to establish positive, collaborative working relationships with incoming companies that encourage creativity. Given the fast paced nature of the festival programme the ability to prioritise, manage time efficiently and maintain a positive, flexible approach to work tasks will all contribute to the success of the project.

This is a fixed term position, engaged from 24th May - 25th June 2021 inclusive. 

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Fixed Term, Full Time

Period of Engagement: 24/05/21 - 25/06/21

Fee: £500 per week

Place of Work: London, United Kingdom

Schedule of Work: 46 hours per week, Monday - Friday

Applications

A full Role Pack can be found via the 'Download Pack' link above.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter by email to:

[email protected]

Applicants are also requested to complete the Pleasance Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form at:

http://bit.ly/PleasanceEqualOps

Deadline: 17:00, 16th April 2021

Interviews: 21st & 22nd April 2021

The Pleasance Theatre Trust is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. In particular, we encourage applications from backgrounds or social groups currently underrepresented in the creative industries. If you would require any reasonable adjustments at interview or whilst undertaking the role as specified, please highlight this as part of your application and we will be happy to discuss these.