Ardea Arts/Family Opera Initiative
New York, NY
www.familyoperainitiative.org
Contact: Grethe Holby
E-Mail: Ray@ardeaarts.com
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Managing Director/Producer
Duration: Full-time
Date Posted: 9/4/2008
Ardea Arts, a not-for-profit opera and music-theater development and production company, seeks a full-time Managing Director/Producer to oversee and manage all of the organizations activities, including its central program, Family Opera Initiative.
Ardea Arts commissions, develops and produces new opera that takes a fresh approach to the art form, with the goal to foster work that brings the opera experience to a wide new audience and expand the art of opera. Ardea Arts recently produced the U.S. premiere of The True Last Words of Dutch Schultz at Wall to Wall Opera — Symphony Space, in association with Center for Contemporary Opera; co-produced Napua Davoy's Stella Rising at Orlando Shakespeare Festival's PLAYFEST! and The York Theater; and commissioned The Man in the Black Suit by composer Eve Beglarian and director Grethe Barrett Holby, based on the story by Stephen King; and produced the work's first major workshop this past January at Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), and readings this February at PS 122 in NYC.
Family Opera Initiative is a central program of Ardea Arts, created in 1995 to make new opera that engages multigenerational audiences with work that challenges, inspires; enchants and surprises; reaching out to contemporary American audiences. FOI workshopped Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Richard Peaslee, Kenneth Cavander) at Orlando Shakespeare Festival's PLAYFEST in 2006, and in 2007-2008 toured its Summer Family Opera Program on Long Island, NY. Current FOI projects include Animal Tales by George Plimpton, Kitty Brazelton and Holby, workshopped at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) in 2005 and at Peak Performances/Montclair State University (New Jersey) in 2006.
Upcoming: The Three Astronauts, based on the international picture book by Umberto Eco and Eugeio Carmi. Upcoming this November: premiere readings of the newly-completed Animal Tales in NYC, and is currently in mid-production.
For more information please visit www.familyoperainitiative.org.
Responsibilities Include
- Reporting to and working with the Executive Artistic Director.
- Producing developmental readings and workshops of new opera and music-theater works. Producing duties include budgeting, casting, staffing, and negotiating contracts with artists, crew and facilities.
- Forming and maintaining relationships and partnerships and collaborations with other opera and theater organizations.
- Preparing budgets and accounting reports.
- Creating/designing marketing materials for new operas in development.
- Managing newsletters, website and other communications to patrons, artists and industry professionals.
- Planning benefit concerts and other fundraising events. Evenet planning duties include budgeting, program planning, communications with committee members, delegating duties to staff and committee members, negotiating artist contracts, coordinating catering and event supplies orders, travel arrangements, creating invitations, tracking R.S.V.P.s and sending out tax thank-you letters.
- Assisting with grant proposals and grant reporting, and keeping a calendar of deadlines.
- Occasionally renting Ardea's rehearsal studio to outside groups.
- Representing Ardea at trade conferences (Opera America, APAP, IPAY, etc.)
- Communicating with the Board of Directors: scheduling board meetings, distributing agenda and meeting minutes, and occasionally taking minutes of the meeting.
- Overseeing and hiring a small staff, primarily interns.
- Overseeing company finances, bookkeeping, and payroll.
Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have significant experience in the opera community and/or the not-for-profit or commercial theater community. A background in producing, touring and general management and development is desirable. Excellent attention to detail, strong writing skills, the ability to assess and initiate projects independently; a leader with ambition, spirit, energy, vision, ingenuity and creativity, and a desire grow with and oversee the growth of a small but ambitious company.
Salary commensurate with experience and abilities.
To apply, send a cover letter and resume, with subject line 'Managing Director' to Ray@ardeaarts.com
Start Date: September 19, 2008
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