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Director, Producing and Artistic Operations at University of Chicago | LAYIQ

Leads multi-year producing strategies aligned with Court Theatre's artistic and institutional goals.
Develops long-range production capacity planning and advises senior leadership on production scale, staffing, scheduling, and institutional priorities.
Conducts feasibility analyses for productions, commissions, festivals, touring initiatives, and strategic artistic projects.
Develops Court Theatre's long-term production pipeline, supporting future touring, remounts, co-productions, publications, and scholarly engagement.
Owns the institution-wide producing calendar and coordinates production timelines across artistic, engagement, and institutional initiatives.
Maintains the Theatre's production, event, and programs portfolio, balancing budgets, staffing, facilities, and organizational capacity.
Supervises artistic operations staff, including producing personnel, company management, literary fellows, interns, and project-based producers.
Develops efficient workflows, production documentation, and post-production evaluation processes.
Leads producing relationships for co-productions, touring, commissions, festivals, and presenting partnerships.
Negotiates producing agreements and memoranda of understanding with external partners, in collaboration with the Managing Director.
Serves as Court Theatre's principal producing representative with artists, agents, presenters, peer theatres, funders, and University partners.
Cultivates national and international partnerships that expand Court Theatre's artistic impact.
Collaborates on production, event, and program budgets with Finance, Production, and Engagement leadership.
Forecasts production costs, manages contingencies, and supports long-range financial planning.
Oversees contracting and negotiations for guest artists and producing agreements.
Ensures compliance with labor agreements, University policies, and industry best practices.
Represents Court Theatre in meetings with donors, artists, University leadership, and external partners, especially when the Artistic Director is unavailable.
Champions innovation in producing models, institutional partnerships, and artistic operations.
Develops long- and short-term programs to achieve the artistic goals for the theater. Ensures the availability of artistic and production resources necessary to implement programs.
Oversees stage productions and artistic teams. Leads the planning of auditions and selection of music/dance/theatre productions.
Performs other related work as needed.

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