Comedy Programme Assistant (12-month fixed term contract)

Hours: Full Time (40 hours per week including 1 hour unpaid break)

Applications: Interviews: w/c 14th & 21st July 2025 Closing date: 10am, Monday 14 July

To support the comedy programme across all aspects of programming and administration, with a specific focus on the programme at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, to ensure its successful delivery. This role requires a passion for comedy and theatre, energy, enthusiasm and a determination to get the job done.This is an exciting opportunity for someone who loves comedy, loves entertainment and wants a hands-on experience of Soho Theatre’s acclaimed programme – putting comedy artists on stage and giving audiences a great night out.

RESPONSIBILITIES

ARTIST LIAISON

• Be a lead point-of-contact for artists and companies programmed at Soho Theatre Walthamstow, greeting them on arrival and ensuring they are treated with the highest standards of care and attention.
• Liaise with Creative, Communications, Technical, and Audience teams, ensuring effective communication between them to aid with the smooth running and good timekeeping for performances and technical schedules.
• Welcome and host artists, promoters, agents and guests as required and be Soho Theatre’s representative during this time.
• Be responsible for coordinating and purchasing an agreed rider and for stocking the venue’s artist Green Room with this rider ahead of artist arrival.
• Support artists as necessary to ensure sound checks are effectively fulfilled.

PROGRAMMING

• Play an active role in the Comedy department for discovering and building relationships with artists and companies, contributing to the development of the comedy programme.
• Nurture relationships with agents and promoters to ensure these are positive.
• Represent Soho Theatre in seeing shows elsewhere to potentially play on the Soho Theatre and Soho Theatre Walthamstow stages, feedback to the comedy team at programming meetings.
• Understand and support the key relationship between the Comedy department and Comedy Labs at Soho Theatre, identifying performers who can one day bring their full shows to Soho Theatre and beyond. Encouraging artists who might benefit from taking part in Labs to apply.
• Network and maintain relationships with Soho Theatre’s Associate Companies and Associate Venues as required.

ADMINISTRATION

• Work with the Comedy team in all aspects of administration of the Soho Theatre Walthamstow programme, including contractual arrangements, budgeting, and settlements.
• Assist in the preparation of appropriate control measures and paperwork to cover all health and safety aspects of shows and engagement activities, including risk assessments and contracts.
• Create and maintain contact sheets, ensuring relevant show and event information sheets are up to date and communicated as necessary.
• Assist in the management and processing of artist and promoter tickets as required.
• Contribute to reports on productions for a variety of stakeholders.
• Assist in budgeting as required, with an awareness and foresight for income targets.
• Contribute and respond to show reports as necessary.
• Support artists and companies in marketing activity, and take an active role in contributing to those campaigns in collaboration with the Communications team.
• Assisting with VIP, Press and Guest nights.
• Lead in the data collection of equal opportunities forms from artists and visiting companies and preparing contracts for visiting companies.

GENERAL

• Liaise with teams to ensure a coordinated approach across the whole company and our venues.
• See performances outside of Soho Theatre as required.
• Attend meetings, as required, including taking an active role in all meetings.
• Attend and engage with events such as press nights, guest nights, and development events as required.
• Awareness of Soho Theatre’s programme and activities across the company.
• Administrate all aspects of the role, including filing and record keeping, and reporting as required.
• Support the aims and objectives of Soho Theatre Company both internally and externally.
• Uphold and champion the company’s Equality, Access, and Diversity policies.
• Undertake such other reasonable duties as may from time to time be required.
• Any other duties as the Head of Comedy may reasonably require.

How to apply:

Please send us your application form outlining your suitability for the role, experience to date, and enthusiasm for working at Soho Theatre. We will shortlist for the position based on how you respond to the job description.

Please also complete an equal opportunities monitoring form here .

Submitting an application:

We prefer applications to be sent by email. Please send your completed forms to jobs@sohotheatre.com with CPA25 in the subject line.

If you would like to submit your application in another format, or you have any queries about this role, please contact the HR team on 020 7478 0100 or email jobs@sohotheatre.com to discuss alternatives.

We will contact every candidate, whether they have been shortlisted for interview or not.

The deadline for submitting your application is Monday 14 th July 2025, at 10am

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