Associate Properties Director

Job Details

Job Details

Job Location:

615 - Houston, TX 77002

Position Type:
Full Time Salary Range: $52,000.00 Salary POSITION:

Associate Properties Director

DEPARTMENT:

Properties

CLASSIFICATION:
Full-time / Salaried / Exempt

SUPERVISOR:

Properties Director

Founded in 1947 by Nina Vance, the Alley Theatre is a pioneer of regional theatre, and one of the leading nonprofit theatre companies in the United States delivering world class theater on its two stages and through its education and community engagement work.

The Alley has been awarded the prestigious Regional Theatre Tony Award® and the Texas Medal of Arts Award.

The Alley has transferred productions to Broadway, Off-Broadway, major European Festivals, and to 40 American cities.

Unique among regional theatres, the Alley is committed to maintaining a Resident Acting Company and providing them with work year-round.

Nationally recognized directors, actors, playwrights, and designers from across the country have regularly joined the Resident Acting Company.

Led by Artistic Director Rob Melrose and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein, the Alley focuses on delivering excellent programming to inspire and enchant lives through theater and prioritizes creating a welcoming environment for all.

The Associate Properties Director is a member of the prop shop, providing positive leadership, organization, communication, and supervision for the prop shop in coordination with the Properties Director. With the Properties Director, the Associate is responsible for supporting the artistic vision of directors and designers as it relates to the advancement, budgeting, and realization of scenic/properties designs and participates in season and production planning as it relates to the execution of the properties.

• Work with the Properties Director to plan the procurement/build of props for each production including scheduling, shop supervision, material ordering, and new product/process research and implementation.
• Work with the creative team and production management to manage and maximize the artistic impact of financial resources by evaluating designs and creating material and labor estimates.
• Assist scenic designers through entire process, from initial drawings, through the tech and preview process, making suggestions and sharing ideas to solve problems, improving productions, and facilitate changes.
• Manage and facilitate all properties needs throughout the build, rehearsal, load-in, technical rehearsal, previews, run, and strike of each production and special event.
• Serve as Properties Lead on assigned productions, typically half of the season's productions.
• Run/participate in department meetings as necessary and assist in dissemination of all pertinent information to shop staff.
• Assist with maintenance and updating of show books, research, notes, photos, and other information for all productions. Assist with management of all properties budgets.
• Shopping/purchasing, construction, painting, acquiring, and finishing of all properties as needed, including hand props, furniture, furnishings and set decorations for all productions.
• Repair, upholstering, and refinishing properties borrowed, purchased, or constructed for productions.
• Pulling properties from stock as needed for productions, rental, or rehearsal, which includes transporting furniture to and from an offsite warehouse.
• Assist in maintaining open communication within the prop department and with other production departments.
• Attend technical rehearsals and preview performances as required by the Properties Director.
• Attend full staff meetings, production department meetings and post-mortems as necessary.
• Work with the Education and Community Engagement (ECE), marketing, and development departments to help staff and facilitate education shows and special programs. This may include opportunities to teach workshops, talk about the company and your career with students, and meet with constituent groups to discuss 'behind the scenes' activities.
• Participate in advancing the achievement of artistic goals of the theatre, ensure quality and consistency, and maintain the highest production values for the Alley Theatre by contributing to group discussion, meetings, note sessions, etc.
• Supervise staff and over-hire in the implementation of safety measures per theatre safety policies and best practices.
• Additional duties as assigned.

• Assist in motivating and coaching employees to improve…