Tour Booker and Manager
Riding Lights Theatre Company
Job Description
-21 hours per week (three full days)
-living wage hourly rate
-opportunities for extra evening work
Closing Date: Monday 13 April 2015
The Tour Manager is responsible for booking and managing two tours per year
(autumn and spring). These are primarily in non-theatre venues, a significant majority
in churches and cathedrals in England, Scotland, and Wales.
This is a perfect post for someone in early career arts administration, keen to learn
more about the administrative side of a well-established professional theatre
company. The Tour Manager must be highly organised, attentive to detail, and selfmotivated. Many professional contacts will be church leaders, or volunteers
connected to a church community, so the ability to communicate effectively with a
wide range of people is essential. The ability to keep accurate records of
communication and to follow through with a task are also crucial skills needed for this
post.
The Tour Manager acts as a lynch-pin connecting the creative team, the marketing
and publicity team, local performance organisers, local overnight hosts, box office
teams, finance teams, actors, technicians, and potential audience for up to 60
performances on any one tour. The ability to keep track of, and follow-through with,
several different strings of communication will be a major part of the job.
About the Company
Riding Lights Theatre Company is one of the UK’s most productive and longestablished independent theatre companies. Founded in York over 30 years ago,
partly through the initiative of a city-centre church, the company continues to take
innovative, accessible theatre into all kinds of communities far and wide. Our aim is to
create unforgettable, entertaining theatre in response to current issues and the hopes
and fears of the world we share. Regular tours of new and devised work by Riding
Light have established a huge network of non-theatre venues across the UK,
attracting large, loyal audiences not necessarily accustomed to traditional theatre,
and addressing issues such as international debt relief, terrorism, science and faith,
social responsibility, safe water provision, and climate change.
For more information, call Bernadette on 01904 655317.
Please apply using the online application form.