Re: RAT Infernal Bridegroom Seeks Managing Director

["Donna Sherritt" <ohbelladonna@hotmail.com>]

Jason--

Just wanted to say your company sounds phenomenal.  Best of luck finding a 
Managing Director that can match that vibrancy!

donna

>From: "Jason Nodler" <jnodler@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: RAT Infernal Bridegroom Seeks Managing Director
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:38:33 CDT
>
>Infernal Bridegroom Productions seeks qualified candidates for the
>leadership position of Managing Director, to oversee the growth and
>stabilization of this exciting, young theater company.
>
>Responsibilities include management of all administrative, financial and
>organizational aspects of the corporation, including fundraising, 
>marketing,
>public relations, grantwriting and human resources.  Must have a strong
>interest in the arts.  Development and non-profit administrative experience
>a plus.  Salary commensurate with budget and experience.
>
>More important than any of that business above, though, is the ability to
>get, dig and sell what we're doing.  IBP is seven years and thirty
>productions old.  We do three kinds of things: new plays created and
>developed by our ensemble, which marry highbrow and lowbrow sensibilities 
>to
>create serious entertainment (also known as 'popular art'); regional
>premieres of plays by cool playwrights like Fornes, Wellman and Suzan-Lori
>Parks (IBP produced the world premiere of her Fucking A, which she also
>directed.); and bold, fresh (yet reverent) productions of dead modern
>masters like Beckett, Brecht, Buchner, Ionesco, etc.
>
>We don't have our own theater.  We're in the process of getting one, 
>though,
>and that transition will be part of the job.  We do have office, rehearsal
>and storage space (rent-free for eight years) and, though we have performed
>in various site-specific locations (nightclubs, warehouses, abandoned
>shopping malls, moving school bus), we generally use rented theaters.
>
>Our audience is young, loyal, enthusiastic and growing fast.  Approximately
>half of them, according to surveys, almost never attend non-IBP cultural
>events.  If they're not at our shows, they're drinking or watching a band.
>The other half are the serious artfucks who are generally turned off by
>theater, but seem to like us pretty well.
>
>The local press has been outrageously supportive (12 Best of Houston awards
>in five years, including Best Theater Company, New Play, Production,
>Actress, Director, etc.) and almost all of our productions (30 so far) have
>sold out, been extended, received great reviews.
>
>Local foundations and patrons of the arts have recently taken notice of us
>and are beginning to fund us and fund us well.
>
>Now we need a boss who is as driven, innovative and authoritative on the
>business side as the artistic personnel is on the art side, to take the 
>next
>step.
>
>We currently employ two full-time staff members, an artistic director and
>associate director.  We are ready to hire a qualified managing director to
>start immediately.
>
>Inquiries and resumes should be sent to:
>
>Infernal Bridegroom Job Search
>P.O. Box 131644
>Houston, TX  77219-1644
>
>Or by email to:
>
>jnodler@hotmail.com
>
>You can call us, too:
>
>713-522-8443
>
>Please forward to any and all appropriate parties.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jason Nodler
>Artistic Director
>Infernal Bridegroom Productions
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