Job Opportunity
Deputy Stage Manager for To Kill a Mockingbird
Application deadline: 5pm Friday 9 May 2025
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ContractFull-time, Fixed Term
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SalaryPlease see details below.
We are looking for a Deputy Stage Manager to join the Stage Management team at Leeds Playhouse and tour with JCTP for To Kill a Mockingbird.
To Kill A Mockingbird (by Aaron Sorkin with direction by Bartlett Sher) is a co-production between Leeds Playhouse and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions which will open at Leeds Playhouse and then continue on to a UK tour.
We are looking for a Deputy Stage Manager to part of the Stage Management team at Leeds Playhouse from the beginning of rehearsals, throughout the run in Leeds and on to deliver the subsequent UK tour.
The post will be 2 separate contracts, one with Leeds Playhouse for the rehearsals and run at the Playhouse, the second with Jonathan Church Theatre Productions for the UK tour. We are looking for one person to fulfil both contracts.
Our application form is for all 5 stage management roles we are recruiting for To Kill a Mockingbird. Please indicate in the form which post you are interested in being considered for, you can apply for multiple stage management roles.
Contract 1: Leeds Playhouse – 28 July 2025 to 5 October 2025
28 July 2025 – 9 August 2025 (London Rehearsals)
11 August – 4 October 2025 (Leeds Playhouse Rehearsals and Show)
Pay is MRSL Grade 1 DSM £579.25 per week or UK Theatre Equivalent current rate at time. Plus subsistence £235 per week subject to location of home address.
Contract 2: Jonathan Church Theatre Productions – 6 October 2025 to 31 May 2026
6 October 2025 – 30 May 2026 (UK Tour), with possible international dates from 13 December 2025 – 11 January 2026 (TBC) and the Option to extend the tour until 31 August 2026.
Pay is £750 per week. This fee is a buy-out of overtime, bank holiday payments and EPK Usage. Touring Allowance of £350 per week plus travel allowance between venues.
Both contracts are fixed term, full time contracts, including evening and weekend work. Please see the job pack below for full details.
To find out more about this role, please download our job pack below.
To apply:
- Fill in both forms below.
- Send your CV to recruitment@leedsplayhouse.org.uk
You must complete all three of these before the application deadline.
The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 9 May 2025.
Interviews to be scheduled for between the 14 and 16 May 2025.
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For more information about this role please contact Company Stage Manager, Steve Cressy
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About the show
‘All rise for this powerfully uplifting theatrical event’ — Evening Standard
Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic. Now this thrilling courtroom drama opens at Leeds Playhouse ahead of a national tour.
Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch, encourages kindness and empathy in his children, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it.
Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by novelist Harper Lee’s own childhood and has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was long at the top of the banned book lists.
