Deputy artistic director

Closing date: Sunday 12th January, 5pm

Salary: £43,500 - £46,000 per annum pro rata

Contract: Two-year contract, with extension confirmed with at least three months’ notice.

Hours: Option for a contract of 4 or 5 days per week as preferred. 

Location: Good Chance Offices in Shoreditch (E1 6LA) with remote working 1 - 2 days per week.

Good Chance is seeking an exceptional artist to become our deputy artistic director!

We’re looking for someone who shares our passion for using the power of theatre to change lives and minds, to create surprising stories that spark new conversations and encourage action on complex urgent issues of our time. The Deputy Artistic Director will work closely with our Co-Artistic Directors to bring their artistic vision for the company to life and, with the Executive Director, other members of the Senior Leadership Team and wider team and partners, work to deliver this vision through our productions, public artworks and artist development programmes, including leading on specific projects of their own.

As a company which has, from its inception, created pioneering work with artists from refugee and migrant backgrounds around the world, we are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with lived or close experience of displacement and migration.

Our founders Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson continue to balance their roles as Co-Artistic Directors with their writing commitments (much of which is for Good Chance projects), working roughly one day per week outside of their writing with occasional longer periods focusing more solely on other projects. The Deputy Artistic Director will therefore play a pivotal role in supporting the Co-Artistic Directors and the broader leadership team in realising Good Chance’s artistic vision and programme goals. Within this collaboratively agreed vision, the Deputy Artistic Director will help to lead the development of productions, public artworks and artist development initiatives that reflect our ethos and values. As well as being a constant artistic voice for the wider team and providing day-to-day artistic oversight, the successful applicant will have major scope and support to initiate and lead their own new projects and productions, bringing fresh ideas as a key creative force within the organisation. We see this as a role with considerable opportunity for growth and expansion, and are looking for a candidate keen to embrace this. 

This role comes at an incredibly exciting time for the company; our production of Kyoto opens in the West End in January 2025 in co-production with the RSC, with more major theatre productions in the pipeline for 2026 and 2027 and scope for more productions at small, mid and large scale. It is also a time for creative generation as the close of 2024 marks the end of our 2022-2024 programme of delivery, meaning the Deputy Artistic Director will be central to the development and delivery of Good Chance’s ambitious artistic programme 2025-2027 and beyond. This will include developing our artist development strand of work and our next major international public artwork for 2026/27. We want the Deputy Artistic Director to seize the possibilities this presents for exciting, innovative productions and projects at every scale, to ensure Good Chance continues to be a sector-leading champion of ground-breaking, authentic work with the voices of those with lived experience at its heart.

Responsibilities

• Support the Co-Artistic Directors in developing and delivering Good Chance's artistic vision, mission and programme of work, including deputising for them when required.
• Be a key artistic voice in the day-to-day running of the organisation, supporting the Executive Director, Senior Leadership Team (Head of Creative Development, Head of Programmes and Deputy Artistic Director) and other team members in delivering projects and (alongside other artistic leads, such as Project Directors) helping to ensure all of our work and engagement is aligned with Good Chance’s artistic vision, ethos and values.
• Scope to initiate, develop and create and direct new productions and projects.
• Lead on artist development work alongside the Head of Programmes.
• Be the first port of call for external artistic enquiries such as script submissions, proposals, requests for meetings and invitations to collaborate.
• Work collaboratively across all functions of the organisation – fundraising, programme design, planning, comms as well as artistically.
• Represent Good Chance externally and with stakeholders including funders, researchers, at events and in the media.

About Good Chance

Good Chance is an award-winning international theatre company creating ground-breaking, heart thumping, highly relevant “theatre that shakes hands with the world” (Sunday Times). We devise and produce outstanding productions and public artworks and support displaced artists to create new work and access new platforms. We create powerful and provoking work to spark new connections and new conversations across divides, through surprise and spectacle, connecting communities through art and exploring the big issues of our time to make real change possible. Good Chance is unique in the boldness, breadth and ambition of the work we create; in ways no other company has attempted, we have evidenced how we can achieve impact on both an epic scale and on an intimate individual level and have a national and international reputation to match.

How to apply

Click the 'Apply' button for more information on the role and how to apply. Applications should be sent by Sunday 12th January at 5pm with attachments of:

• An Expression of Interest outlining who you are, why you are interested in the role and how your experience fits the job description
• Your CV
• You will also need to complete our Diversity Monitoring Form (found on the website page)

If you have any questions about this role, need this information in a different format, or have any access requirements for application or interview, please contact us by email on hello@goodchance.org.uk

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