Management jobs
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Administrative director
Yep that's the director who's in charge of the erm, admin...
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Administrator
Managing that paperless office...
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Bar staff/supervisor
The drinks are on us!
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Box office worker
Just the ticket
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Catering manager
School dinners or food glorious food
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Company director
You'll never walk alone...
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Corporate bookings coordinator
Hiring privates?
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Costume hire coordinator
Fancy frocks and silly suits for rent
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Development manager/ director
Making a little go a long way
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Duty manager
It's your duty...manage!
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Education officer/ manager/ director
More blackbox than blackboard
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Facilities/ operations manager
Operating in the theatre?
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Finance officer/ manager/ director
Making the books add up (and no creative accounting allowed!)
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Front of house assistant/ manager
From the foyers to the gods...
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General manager
The buck stops with them - they're seriously in charge
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IT manager
Being part of the IT crowd
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Marketing & PR officer/ manager/ director
The mouthpiece (gob) of the industry
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Producer
Be the next Max Bialystock
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Programming coordinator/ director
Shows not computers
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Shop manager
In need of retail therapy?
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Stagedoor keeper
But where do they keep it?
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Tour booker
Gift of the gab with one eye on the road map...
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Tour manager
On the buses
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Youth theatre leader
Getting down with da kidz
Agreed rates of pay
There are various unions and trade associations that have standard agreements for the payment of wages and salaries in the theatre sector. A good example and probably the most famous is Equity which represents performers, artists and actors.
Equity negotiates with employers to provide minimum levels of pay and engagement fees across the entertainment industry. You can see some of the rates they have negotiated
Other theatre unions, trade associations and industry bodies that negotiate fee rates include:
A hard day’s night
Nearly half of those working in the UK performance industry earned less than £6,000 from the profession in the last year and most spent more time working outside the industry than they did within it, states a 2005 survey of Equity members carried out by Skillset.
The survey also showed that men were more likely than women to have earned £30,000 or more from work in the industry in the past year.
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“I started as a part-time training assistant, got promoted to creative learning assistant and eventually to projects manager”
Serina Apaloo-Gordon, 25, education projects manager, The Lyric, Hammersmith
