Assistant/Associate Performance Director - Secret Cinema: Grease (Freelance)

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Performance Director during rehearsals to deliver the performance plan, providing feedback notes to cast, and providing general assistance to the Performance Director as required.
• Hold a bank of knowledge around the project, confidently representing and answering questions about the show creative.
• Run rehearsals as and when required, guiding and shaping the performance based on the show creative as set by the Creative Director.
• Lead understudy rehearsals.
• Attend all rehearsals, previews, and relevant notes days, ensuring that good timekeeping is maintained throughout.
• Work with the Costume Designer, Hair and Makeup Designer, Stage Management Team and other members of the production team to ensure that all elements work together and are effectively communicated.
• Work closely with the production and safety teams to ensure that the performance minimises risks during rehearsal and show run for performers, show crew, and audience.
• Attendance, subject to your reasonable availability, all appropriate meetings with other members for the artistic, production and management teams.
• To keep detailed records of all performance plans, character tracks, choreography, and fight choreography, and provide them in a detailed handover to Secret Group Ltd.
• Support the global HODs with potential casting sessions and character info packs for all global teams.
• Work closely with the global HODs to deliver training on a specified date prior to the show opening, sharing a tool kit to support staff members to perform their operational duties in character.
• Attend any press or publicity calls as required.
• Aid the Community Team whenever required.
• To participate in the Secret Group Ltd debrief processes by submitting a written debrief and, if required by the producer, attending a debrief meeting.

About you

• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• Collaborative and a clear communicator in both written and spoken word
• Confident public speaker with experience of leading groups of 50+
• Detail-oriented researcher
• Previous professional experience working in 'non-traditional' theatre such as immersive, interactive, large scale outdoor or promenade
• Demonstrated experience in direction and/or devising work
• Demonstrated experience in supervising the work of other people