Lauren Eisinger Producer

SEEKING EOIs FOR 2 ROLES

WHO ARE WE?

We produce and manage theatrical shows that share bold stories, engage the imagination and step off the beaten path. We are masters of the unpredictable, expert problem solvers, and calculated risk-takers, with over 10 years producing experience for major festivals, independent artists, in Australia and overseas. With our intimate understanding of the arts landscape we excel at resourcing new ideas into reality and connecting deeply with collaborators and audiences. We go boldly into the unknown, and shine a light for others.

We work across form, genre and scale and love work that pushes the envelope.

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Handling incoming and outgoing emails with artists, investors, government, presenters, creatives and agents
Organising meetings and taking minutes
Making travel arrangements - booking flights, accommodation and compiling itineraries
preparing documents including contracts, reports etc.
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
Highly organised with the ability to prioritise tasks
Brilliant written communication manner and confident communicating with different stakeholders from collaborators to government agencies or offices
Meticulous and detail-oriented
Discretion and ability to uphold confidentiality
strong initiative and ability to problem-solve
HOURS AND PAY
To be agreed with the right individual. Indicative hours, part-time 2 days per week, potential to increase during peak project delivery times. Ability to work flexibly and break up hours across the week is desirable

OTHER INFO
We work remotely on tools like Slack, Zoom and the phone (old school right!). We welcome people of all abilities and diversity of culture, faith, gender identity and sexual orientation. We work flexibly in every sense of the word. We are invested in collaborating with the right individual for the role, then working with them in a way that allows them to achieve their best

Interested?

Let us know what attributes or skills make you unique or you consider your superpowers and why you'd be a good fit for the role, and send that along with a copy of your CV to [email protected]

ASSISTANT PRODUCER
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Project and program coordination and management, including producing, production management or stage or touring company management

• Logistics and coordination work for live performance

• Some touring experience is ideal

•Working to key deadlines within budget parameters

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Demonstrated experience in project management, assisting to deliver theatrical productions through supporting professional artists, creatives and technicians within budget parameters

• Demonstrated ability to work independently, with high-level organisational skills and a proven capacity to work on multiple projects simultaneously in a competitive and dynamic environment

• Capacity to manage, or assist with management of national and international touring projects

A curiosity and willingness to learn. Ability to admit if you don't know, and then to do whatever is needed to find out
DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Understanding of the particular requirements of aerial and physical performance, experience in facilitating outdoor productions and events, experience working on new creations through creative development

• An understanding of current trends and opportunities in the Australian performing arts scene and the international arts landscape

HOURS AND PAY
To be agreed with the right individual. We are not ready to hire this role immediately but will look to do so in the medium-term, so there is room for some negotiation around pay and hours.

Interested?
Let us know why you love producing, what keeps you going when sh*t really hits the fan or you face constant rejection, what attributes or skills make you unique or you consider your superpowers and send that along with a copy of your CV to [email protected]

For a while I was going to start a blog called Cake For Breakfast about the producing experience. Pancakes count as cake right?

Pancakes on a weekday because:
- self care is important and finding time for yourself amongst the crazy is vital

- energy is waning mid season and I’ve chosen to fix this by adding sugar

- when freelance life gets hard it’s good to do things that you wouldn’t be able to do working a traditional 9-5, like pancake brunch in the cafe at 10am, to remind yourself about the upside

- when being an adult means paying your bills and organising your admin, you get to remember it also means buying dessert whenever you want

If you’re looking for an excuse for cake for breakfast stop looking and start eating the cake.

I was scrolling back through photos and stumbled upon these stunners featuring breathtaking THAW by . There is a lot that I love about working with Legs but I think my favourite thing, is they are not afraid to make a bold statement. They're not a voice in the crowd, they're the one out the front leading the pack. They have the incredible talent of being able to find the humanity and heartstrings in even the most confronting existential issues.

Cleo Wade (artist and poet) said in a TED talk "when the world asks us big questions that require big answers, we have two options:
1. to feel so overwhelmed or unqualified, we do nothing
2. to start with one small act and qualify ourselves"

A Legs work makes you stop, listen, feel and empathise. It reaches out and touches your heart, then takes you by the hand and gently shows you that next step, and gives you the little push of encouragement that takes you from the overwhelm of doing nothing, to doing that one small act.

Legs makes art that turns passive viewers into agents of change.

We're super excited that the beautiful show Interloper by will be heading to in August, playing at .

Thank you to brilliant AD Kate Fell for having us in your inaugural festival and congrats on an excellent program. We can't wait.
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Interloper: One that jumps into the midst of things without an invitation to do so.

Tasmanian circus company ROOKE invites you to an exploration of belonging, connection, humanity and identity in this new world we are all coming to terms with. When an uninvited stranger arrives, we meet a complex individual who struggles to engage with the people around him. Interloper is a celebration of mundane human existence featuring five highly skilled circus artists who, at heart, are just like you.

https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/interloper/

Starting work on a new idea is like leaping into the abyss and trying to build your parachute on the way down. Sometimes it just doesn't work. Then there are times when everyone's smiling, ideas are flowing and there's a hum in the air whispering excitedly that you just might be on to something.

For the past two weeks and .j.jacobs (The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom) have been developing a new show for families. It's been a dream and we can't wait to take the next steps.
Thank you and for giving us space to play. It always takes a village and we are so glad you came on this adventure with us.

It turns out, there's a high degree of cross-over between being a producer and living with a macaw. These are lessons that have proved the same for life as a producer, and life with my feathered kid, Lilly.

1. When Lilly and I go out, everyone always remembers the star of the show, I'm the random hanger on
2. Nobody tells you you’re ready for it, you have to legitimise yourself, and everyone questions your life choices
3. It’s a lifestyle choice. It changes everything about the way you go about your day
4. It costs lots of money, and it could always cost more.
5. She calls the shots, life revolves around her, I have to adapt.
6. It’s constantly challenging you, and you rise to the occasion (or quit!)
7. It is part of who you are, it fills a hole in your soul, and you can’t imagine being you without it

📸 features Lilly and me, working together at Spiegeltent Wollongong

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but get out there and do the thing. Especially if you think you're not ready.

Getting ready for a whole month of this view. This is where I stand at the back of Spiegeltent Wollongong, behind the tech desk, while our audience fill the house. This photo is from last year, when performed Peepshow, and this year there is an incredible line up that we've programmed and produced in with Merrigong Theatre Company.

It's always such a pleasure to bring amazing projects to life with great partners.

This is the ultimate line-up of superstar performances, featuring:
🔥London Calling
🔥Garry Starr – Greece Lightning
🔥Karen From Finance is Doing Time
🔥Akmal – Not Dead Yet
🔥Shammgods – Live
🔥Trash Test Dummies
🔥Cell Block 69 – Corey at The Coast
🔥Dumtectives in Cirque Noir
🔥Gabbi Bolt – Odd Sock
🔥Geraldine Quinn – BROAD
🔥Multicultural Comedy Gala
🔥Roxee Horror’s Movie Maniacs
🔥Caboriginal
🔥Le Coup
🔥Die Roten Punkte: Otto & Astrid’s Joint Solo Project
🔥Wankernomics – Solutionising The Corporate World
🔥Dave Hughes – Too Good
🔥Woody – The Ukulele Kids Show
🔥The Strangeways Cabaret
🔥Prinnie Stevens – Lady Sings The Blues

https://spiegeltentwollongong.com/

You know when the room looks like this, you're in the right room.

This was taken last year during rehearsal for Tipping Point by which featured a cast of women, from their 20s to their 50s devising no-holds-barred, powerful physical theatre.

Always a pleasure to hold space for voices like these.

Alongside producing our own shows we program and produce for others. Edinburgh Fringe is unlike anything else on the planet. Not only is it the world's largest arts festival it's also one of the largest arts markets, having launched future life and touring opportunities for many thousands of artists.

I'm stoked to be working alongside an amazing team to create .official for this August. Featuring some truly incredible Australian artists including:

✨ A MIGRANT'S SON
✨ ANNA PIPER SCOTT: SUCH AN INSPIRATION
✨ BEETLE
✨ COMMON DISSONANCE
✨ LEATHER LUNGS: HIGHER LOVE
✨ THE LISTIES MAKE SOME NOISE
✨ MAUREEN
✨ TWO STRANGERS WALK INTO A BAR...

Winner of Best Venue in 2022, House of Oz is dedicated to celebrating the wealth of Australian talent at the world’s biggest arts festival.

4–27 August
King’s Hall Newington

🎟️ Tickets on sale now: www.houseofoz.co.uk

This is as

He’s obscenely talented, a genuinely lovely person and we are so privileged to be able to work with him.

About a year ago he said “I think I want to make a show for children and families” and next week he’s off to the UK for two weeks of show development with Olivia Jacobs, founder of to explore ideas for exactly that.

Creating new work is like leaping off solid ground into the void and building a parachute on the way down. Who knows if any of it will work, but we are very lucky to be able to give it a try.

Our job as producers is to take the artist’s vision, make them feel supported enough to dream as big as they can and bigger, then step by step remove every barrier to that vision being reality.

Here’s the incredible and I in a pre show moment for The Unfair Advantage at the Pylon Lookout at Sydney Harbour Bridge. Magic does happen and dreams do come true.

📸 by the formidable .mk

No matter what the project, ultimately, it's always about this.
People. together.
Whether its bringing the right creatives together on a project, bringing excited audience together with a show they'll love or pairing a presenting partner with the perfect production, it boils down to having passionate people united around shared visions and great stories.

📸 behind the scenes at .adl

We've been a little hit and miss on this platform of late, but we're back and getting the house in order. To be clear, the state of the insta is not a reflection of the state of our company - that's going great guns. So over the next few posts we'll bring you all up to speed so the outside matches the madness within!

Let's take it from the top. Who are you and what are you doing?
🙋‍♀️ I'm Lauren. I'm a producer.
🤸‍♀️💃🧞‍♀️🧚 This ship doesn't sail alone. There's five of us on the team
⭐ We produce shows, we program venues and festivals and we do these things both for our own projects as well as major arts centres and external clients.
💬 We have a people-first human centered approach to everything we do.
💭 We love bold, imaginative ideas

📸 feat the poster for Underbelly's season of Little Death Club by Dead Man Label

“But I suspect I’m at my most successful and ambitious and foolish and wise... When I don’t know what a lover of things like this would expect, because nobody’s ever loved anything like this before" -

After the most epic battles with Covid, Escalate premieres next week at the Arts Centre Melbourne. I'm more than proud of this crazy ambitious work that pushes an artform right to it's edge and then beyond.

Escalate redefines what juggling can be. If you're in Melbourne next week, I challenge you to put your preconceptions to one side and come take a look.

Getting ready for a weekend of danger with at

It’s been a few days since we closed at and what a ride it was.

📸 there was the cover of a photo in .scotsman this awesome feature in The Metro and stars galore. Thank you to the one and only - Susie for saying yes and Chris and Orla for working their magic.

🎭 there was an incredible performance night after night by Damien and Kak

💪🏼 thanks to for putting the team in producing and always being there for the important and thankless tasks.

🐮 thanks always to and the rest of team programming for letting us take up this space, and and for creating said space to begin with

👏🏼 there were houses sold out night after night. So we increased capacity and sold out again. There’s no show without our amazing audiences so if you’re reading this and you came out to play, we love you to hades and back

It takes a village, and my gosh are we proud of this one.

Another day in the office.
cooking up a media storm for
Moments like this always take a village.
Massive thanks to:
on BTS photography
Orla and Chris from The Corner Shop PR
The amazing photographers who braved Carlton Hill on a (cold) summer morning
And of course the man himself Garry for showing up with all his heart and turning on the rockstar vibes

Living for moments like these.

📸 by .cc feat

This week, adventures continue around

When you find it, you have to take your hat off to truly inventive theatre that is fearless, pushes all kinds of boundaries but holds you safely at the same time.

made this classic in 2007 and it feels like it hasn’t aged a day.

⭐️ "... in Jones’ talented hands, Autocannibal is a gleefully grotesque exploration of abject comedy, and a quiet indictment of our collective complicity in climate change and environmental collapse." ⭐

Thank you Richard Watts for the powerful words.

Critical acclaim for in AutoCannibal whose curtains have just closed on this run.

🔗 Read the full review in the bio 🔗

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Behind every live link, media call and press op, there stands a producer just making sure it's all going smoothly.

Delighted to help prepare for their live link on this morning, as set up by .

Catch them at every day from 1835.

Been a bit quiet on this account of late (we can talk about why later- thanks burnout!). But what better way to fire her up again than with a view like this.

Working with companies that speak aerial languages takes you to some high up places.

Feel a sea change coming? Looking for a sign?
​This might be it.
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It's an uncertain time, but we can run the other way or take the next step. We're doing the latter. ​We're levelling up and looking for a couple of legends to join the action.
​If you've got vision, ideas, meticulous ex*****on and like to solve a business or marketing problem, we want to hear from you!
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​https://forms.gle/ntCY8rvAd3atsWCL9
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
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​Sydney Festival kicks off Jan 6.

So excited to introduce this mad and wonderful world to you.
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​Natural Habitat - Mermaids at Rymill Park will premiere at Gluttony at Adelaide Fringe 2022.
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​Mermaids have arrived in Rymill Park lake. Are they real? Yes. How did they get there? You can ask them yourself.

Natural Habitat is fun and fantastical interactive installation for all with some larger-than-life personalities. You won't find any damsels in distress around here, prepare to leave your story book at home, because these mermaids are here to to break some stereotypes and make some waves!
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​Tickets available now at Adelaide Fringe.
​https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/natural-habitat-mermaids-of-rymill-park-af2022
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them: "It's a long shot but worth a try"
​me: "everything I've ever done started as a long shot"
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​This pic? Is Race Horse Company's show Super Sunday. One of the most creative, utterly insane and brilliant things I've seen. It's a work of scale in every sense, surely not something that should ever be attempted at a fringe festival.
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​But one day I sent an unassuming email. Then there was a phone conversation. Then I went to Finland to see the work for one of the only two performances it was giving that year. And taken by its brilliance, we hatched a plan to bring it to Edinburgh. Fringe 2019 it played a full season with and wowed thousands of lucky audience members.
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​Even the longest of shots can break down into bite-sized steps, then we can put one foot in front of the other.

This is why I love working with artists.
​I love seeing different perspectives. I love watching something come to life that you couldn't see for yourself. I love making space for imagination and creativity.
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​First image is what I saw. Second image is what .boud saw.
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​📸 Daniel Boud shooting .philharmonia for

Some might consider me a bit too young and too female to be doing my job. Behind an email address you can be anyone, and when I met a certain producer in person he said "so you're a very powerful woman" (referring to the level of authority and responsibility I had in the role).
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​I, like so many, have encountered some spectacular misogyny whilst doing my job. To any women taking a swing at the glass ceiling, I see you, and I'm cheering for you.
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Here's a baby producer about to tackle the wilds of Bunnings in preparation for her first big independent season.
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​A dear friend sent this to me recently and it just put everything in perspective for a moment. If you asked younger Lauren what the 'producing dream' was, what were her big goals? Well they'd look remarkably similar to my life right now - run my own company, produce world-class work, tour internationally and program for major festivals. In a moment that's extremely busy and full of challenges and stresses, its amazing to stop, look back and realise how far you've come.
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