A word from Hana S. Sharif, Artistic Director, and Edgar Dobie, Executive Producer

Director of Production

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DEPARTMENT: Production

REPORTS TO: Artistic Director and Executive Producer

JOB TYPE: Full Time, Exempt

START DATE: January 1, 2025

SALARY RANGE: $110,000-$165,000

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE

BENEFITS:  

• Medical, dental and vision insurance

• Group life insurance

• Long-term disability

• 403(b)

• Pension plan

• Flexible spending account

• Workers' compensation

• Employee Assistance Program

• Comp tickets

• Vacation and sick leave

• Bereavement leave

• Leave of absence without pay

• Parental leave

• Personal leave

• Additional paid time off

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Position Summary

The Director of Production is responsible for the overall management of the Production Department, balancing artistic vision and integrity with practical needs including deadlines and budgets. The Director of Production will be responsible for budget management, staff development and creative problem solving.​

Essential Duties

• ​​Coordinate effective communication among the directors, designers and all members of production staff

• Budget and schedule the needs of the Production Department to ensure the fulfillment of planned productions, presentations, rentals and other events

• Create and monitor schedules for building, production and presentation activities

• Oversee annual production budget, monitor expenses and provide timely updates of actual expenses and projections

• Facilitate design and production meetings, ensure deadlines are met and oversee the tech/production process

• Administer the production payroll

• Contract production staff (scenic, props, costume, lighting, sound, other production support)

• Hire additional production staff (overhire) as required

• As a member of Senior Staff, work with the Senior Staff to schedule and plan each season and develop strategic plans for the future.

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Skills and Qualifications

• Five years of production management

• Degree in theater preferred but not required

• Ability to work some evenings and weekends required

• Knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel and Outlook

• Knowledge of all production elements including scenic, properties, lighting, costuming, sound, video, stage management, and directing

• Previous experience working within SDC, AEA, USA and AFofM policies preferred.

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About Arena Stage​

Founded in 1950, Arena Stage is a flagship American theater. We were one of the first nonprofit theaters in the U.S. and a pioneer of the regional theater movement. We were the first racially integrated theater in Washington, the first regional theater to transfer a production to Broadway, the first invited by the U.S. State Department to tour behind the Iron Curtain, and the first to receive the Regional Theater Tony Award. Taking a leadership role in extending theater’s horizons, we have implemented groundbreaking policies and programs, promoting diversity in all aspects of theater, from theatergoing to production. From the monumental to the developmental, we’ve helped build the canon of American theater nurturing artistic growth and engaging our community, broadening and intensifying the theatrical experience for one and all.

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Focused on American artists, our productions are innovative and representative of stories from across the country, to galvanize the transformative power of theater to understand who we are as Americans. We nurture new plays and reimagine classics and have nurtured and produced 22 productions that have had a life on Broadway. We produce all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, entertaining, deep and dangerous in the American spirit.​

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Mission

Arena Stage is the voice of American theater resident in our nation’s capital. Focused on American artists, our productions are innovative and representative of stories from across the country. We nurture new plays and reimagine classics. We celebrate our democracy and diversity through a multitude of voices in our productions and community engagement programs to inspire people to action. We produce all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, entertaining, deep and dangerous in the American spirit.

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Vision

Arena Stage’s vision is to galvanize the transformative power of theater to understand who we are as Americans.

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Core Values

• Create a work culture that reflects and borrows from the culture of the rehearsal hall which values experimentation and collaboration

• Pursue excellence in all aspects of our endeavor

• Commit to and champion being an anti-racist organization

• Champion and welcome diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion throughout the organization and within our audience and the community at large

• Flourish by building a healthy, dynamic and powerful artistic community

• Create and steward financial resources to enable a vital Arena Stage

• Strive to instill in the public life‐long love and participation in the theater arts

• Serve artists and arts professionals; the national, regional, and local communities; and theater through effective partnerships and collaboration at the most sophisticated and professional levels

• Pursue programs of education and other activities that engage and give back to the local community

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