Marketing & Communications Manager

Schedule 40 hours per week, flexed around evenings and weekends on the show and event calendar

Benefits Health, Worker’s Comp, Vacation and Sick Leave

Berkeley Playhouse makes theater and theater education that engages, ignites, and celebrates the diverse communities of the Bay Area. Founded in 2007 out of an arts education organization started in 2000, we produce a four-show professional Main Stage season from September through June, teach acting, singing, dance, and technical theater to beginners through advanced students in our Classes & Camps, and stage full-length musicals with young performers through Youth Stage.

In a typical year that adds up to roughly 28,000 patrons in our seats, more than 1,600 young people in our programs, and over 40,000 people connected to our work.

Our home is the Julia Morgan Theater, a 328-seat house on College Avenue that Julia Morgan designed in 1910 as St. John’s Presbyterian Church. Stewarding that building is part of our mission, and so is what it was always meant to do: bring people together.

The Marketing & Communications Manager is the storyteller at the center of Berkeley Playhouse’s public life. This is a full support role across two of our external lanes: the marketing that fills the house and education programs and the fundraising that sustains the organization. You will execute campaigns designed with the Director of Marketing & Development, and you will bring ideas of your own.

This is a job for someone who wants to build, not maintain.

You will live in our social channels, our email program, our website, and our playbill. You will be at opening nights, fundraisers, and camps and classes. And if you love the idea of sometimes being the literal on-camera face and voice of a theater company, there is room for that here.

This role follows the show schedule, so some evening and weekend work is required for events and performances. While day-to-day scheduling is flexible, attendance at select events is mandatory. We’re looking for someone who is energized by this pace.

You report to the Director of Marketing & Development. Day to day you will partner closely with our Education and Production teams, the Director of Patron Services on ticketing and sales pages, and our contract photographers, videographers, designers, and print vendors.

• Own day-to-day management of the Berkeley Playhouse social platforms (Instagram, Facebook, You Tube): calendar, creation, posting, and community engagement.
• Create photo and video content across Main Stage, Youth Stage, and Classes & Camps, and coordinate contract photographers, videographers, and design vendors.
• Appear in social content as an on-camera voice of Berkeley Playhouse if you are comfortable there.
• Track what our community responds to and shares, and make more of it.

• Keep the Berkeley Playhouse voice consistent and alive across email, web, print, social, and press.
• Create, calendar, and send all email campaigns (Mailchimp) across Main Stage, Education, and Development.
• Maintain the website (Word Press): content, sales pages, and event timing coordinated with the Director of Patron Services.
• Draft press releases, maintain media relationships, and pursue print and digital review coverage.
• Manage print collateral end to end: layout and design through fulfillment, including print and mail-house vendor relationships.
• Produce the in-house playbill for each production, including advertising layout and advertiser support.

• In collaboration with Education and Production teams, execute the marketing plan for every Main Stage production and Education initiative: eblasts, social, paid digital, video trailers, and supplemental photography, tracking results across platforms.
• Support season pass and subscription campaigns: acquisition, renewal, and retention.
• Report campaign results against sales during each run.

• Produce donor communications: the annual gratitude report, donor newsletter, and campaign mailings.
• Manage the playbill donor listings for each production and the website donor…