Production Manager

Company: Beth Morrison Projects

Company Location: Brooklyn, NY

Job Location: Hybrid/Other

Job Type: Full Time

Date Posted: July 1, 2025

Network(s): None

DESCRIPTION

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:

  • With Director of Production, work with designers to develop designs to preserve artistic integrity while aligning with budgetary and functional limitations.

  • Source and procure scenic, lighting, costume, sound, and video materials and equipment, including working with external scene shops and rental vendors.

  • Organize and lead production meetings with the artistic company.

  • Manage the production advance schedule, including design deadlines, shop deadlines, and cartage.

  • With Director of Production, track and manage production budgets.

  • As needed, work with designers to adapt productions to new venues.

• Production Oversight:

  • With Director of Production, Creative Producer, and Associate Producers, develop rehearsal schedules and ensure functional rehearsal rooms.

  • Oversee load-ins, technical rehearsals, and strike, managing stage labor as needed.

  • Travel with BMP shows on tour, representing BMP and collaborating with production/technical teams at partner organizations and venues.

• Production Department Administration:

  • Oversee BMP’s off-site set storage and materials inventory

  • With Director of Production, oversee BMP’s season and multi-year development and production calendar

  • 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.

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.

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).

Desired Start Date: September 1, 2025

BENEFITS

Pay Range: $65,000 - $70,000 Annual