Soho Theatre is looking for a DIGITAL CHANNEL MANAGER / CONTENT PRODUCER to elevate Soho Theatre Digital’s profile and output, working independently from and collaborating with the wider team to generate exciting, engaging and relevant digital content across all our platforms. A digital specialist with a passion for all social media platforms, this new role will work to grow followers and engage digitally native audiences with Soho Theatre’s brand online.
Full job description, person specification and details on how to apply for the new role of Soho Theatre’s DIGITAL CHANNEL MANAGER / CONTENT PRODUCER can be found on our website: https://sohotheatre.com/about/jobs/
Applications close 10am, Thursday 2 March 2023. Please submit your application as outlined in the job pack.
ABOUT SOHO THEATRE –
Soho Theatre is London’s most vibrant producer for new theatre, comedy and cabaret. Opened in 2000, bang in the creative heart of London, it is one of the country’s busiest venues with a buzzing bar and a year-round festival programme with a queer, punk, counter-culture flavour. Work extends far beyond its home with a UK and international touring programme and connections; presenting shows and scouting talent at Edinburgh Festival Fringe plus close links with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Soho Theatre is the UK’s leading presenter of Indian comedians from the country’s flourishing comedy scene. It has established several partnerships there and has a Soho Theatre Comedy Producer based in Mumbai.
Developing digital output over time, the online platform Soho Theatre On Demand over lockdown hosted the phenomenally successful live recording of Fleabag alongside comedy, theatre and cabaret specials. Soho Theatre now produces its own films and has more than 30 comedy
specials, currently showing on Prime Video UK and the ‘Soho Theatre Live’ channel on British Airways inflight entertainment. Soho Theatre TikTok and YouTube and Soho Theatre India Instagram channels were launched in late 2022 with a refreshed website to launch in mid-2023.
Soho Theatre is working towards the opening of an exciting new second venue in London, Soho Theatre Walthamstow. A culmination of many years of Soho’s work, in collaboration with a grassroots local campaign, to save a glorious, 1930s art deco venue with an incredible heritage
reinvented as a 1,000-capacity venue for world-class comedy, panto, performance and participation – a ‘local theatre with a national profile’.
Soho Theatre is led by Executive Director Mark Godfrey, Creative Director David Luff and a collaborative team. Soho Theatre’s board is chaired by Dame Heather Rabbatts DBE; subsidiaries Soho Theatre Walthamstow co-chaired by Alessandro Babalola and Lucy Davies,
Soho Theatre Bar by Jeremy King OBE.
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