Seeking a CREATIVE PRODUCER for
MUSHROOM LANGUAGE: A FUNGAL GOTHIC
Engagement, Development & Premiere 2023
Fee Details:
£2500 (£200 day rate x 12.5 days to be spread across days and half days July handover, for work July-December 2023)
Who are you?
You will be an experienced (3-5 years minimum) producer who works independently and is excellent at budget management, accounting, project & time management, with a successful funding track record. You will be capable of working mostly remotely but willing to travel occasionally to Manchester (travel & accommodation provided).
Mushroom Language is an Arts Council funded (with match from commissions & other grants) project period, handing over from an existing producer. Activity period is June-December 2023, you will handover with a producer in July for August start. Responsibilities will include:
ABOUT MUSHROOM LANGUAGE
Excerpted Video Documentation (6 minutes)
Trailer for Marketing
This activity covers the delivery of 6 workshops, 2 work-in-progress sharings (at the Centre for Folklore, Myth & Magic in Todmorden and the Centre for Live Art Yorkshire Leeds) a four week show development period and premieres at The Lowry (Salford).
Mushroom Language is a camp eco-horror piece that sits somewhere between contemporary performance and devised theatre. It is about the cycles that shape us - eruption, reproduction and decay. It is both eerie and darkly funny.
Mushrooms offer us a lens into a more sustainable future, but nature is hilarious and terrifying. As a creative team, we have been speaking to mushroom farmers, psychedelic explorers and foragers along the way, and in this next period of activity we’ll be organising a woodland-based workshop strand alongside the show’s development to build audience and engage new age groups in the climate-conscious ideas behind our show. We think that mushrooms may hold lessons for our survival as humans on earth - they can clean oil spills, heal depression and speak to trees.
Our R&D was supported by artistic partners including Wainsgate Dances, Dartington Arts, Slung Low and New Adelphi Theatre & science partners including Live Wild and the British Mycological Society. New partners include The Lowry, CLAY Yorkshire, Centre for Folklore Myth & Magic, and MYCO Manchester (queer-run mushroom farm).
Please send CV & email expression of interest outlining your experience and alignment with the role to the team at
[email protected] by May 15 2023
MUSHROOM LANGUAGE: A FUNGAL GOTHIC
Engagement, Development & Premiere 2023
Fee Details:
£2500 (£200 day rate x 12.5 days to be spread across days and half days July handover, for work July-December 2023)
Who are you?
You will be an experienced (3-5 years minimum) producer who works independently and is excellent at budget management, accounting, project & time management, with a successful funding track record. You will be capable of working mostly remotely but willing to travel occasionally to Manchester (travel & accommodation provided).
Mushroom Language is an Arts Council funded (with match from commissions & other grants) project period, handing over from an existing producer. Activity period is June-December 2023, you will handover with a producer in July for August start. Responsibilities will include:
- Budget management & cashflow using Excel & Wave accounting software (Wave training can be provided)
- Project management & schedule coordination for our studio development weeks and tech week at the Lowry in summer/autumn 2023, including travel booking, rehearsal schedules and overall logistical support
- Facilitating & writing up ACE evaluations or similar
- Supporting engagement activity (workshops, WIPs and artist talks) through partnerships with science organisations, outdoor education organisations (such as forest schools) and radical mycology groups to both build audience engagement for the shows and introduce other groups to our show’s process & working themes
- Seeking out further artistic partners for show dates in spring 2024
- Thinking strategically with the lead artist about the show’s touring future nationally & internationally
ABOUT MUSHROOM LANGUAGE
Excerpted Video Documentation (6 minutes)
Trailer for Marketing
This activity covers the delivery of 6 workshops, 2 work-in-progress sharings (at the Centre for Folklore, Myth & Magic in Todmorden and the Centre for Live Art Yorkshire Leeds) a four week show development period and premieres at The Lowry (Salford).
Mushroom Language is a camp eco-horror piece that sits somewhere between contemporary performance and devised theatre. It is about the cycles that shape us - eruption, reproduction and decay. It is both eerie and darkly funny.
Mushrooms offer us a lens into a more sustainable future, but nature is hilarious and terrifying. As a creative team, we have been speaking to mushroom farmers, psychedelic explorers and foragers along the way, and in this next period of activity we’ll be organising a woodland-based workshop strand alongside the show’s development to build audience and engage new age groups in the climate-conscious ideas behind our show. We think that mushrooms may hold lessons for our survival as humans on earth - they can clean oil spills, heal depression and speak to trees.
Our R&D was supported by artistic partners including Wainsgate Dances, Dartington Arts, Slung Low and New Adelphi Theatre & science partners including Live Wild and the British Mycological Society. New partners include The Lowry, CLAY Yorkshire, Centre for Folklore Myth & Magic, and MYCO Manchester (queer-run mushroom farm).
Please send CV & email expression of interest outlining your experience and alignment with the role to the team at
[email protected] by May 15 2023