Through Furnace we deliver a wide range of artistic development, supporting and nurturing locally rooted artists and developing vital new work for our stages. We are now recruiting for a Furnace Coordinator to sit at the heart of this programme.

The role of Furnace Coordinator is to administrate, co-ordinate and support the development of people and projects at the Playhouse and to support and develop the ecology of artists and companies in West Yorkshire.

The Furnace Coordinator is a key member of the Artistic Planning team and is line managed by the Director of Producing. The Furnace Coordinator will contribute to the development and delivery of the Playhouse’s wider artistic strategy with a focus on evolving and delivering the Playhouse’s artist development programme.

Our Furnace programme is open to everyone and has at its heart a commitment to develop a representative local ecology of theatre artists. As a result, the work also includes activity designed to identify future theatre artists from communities and groups currently under-represented in the UK theatre industry. Therefore, the work of the Furnace Coordinator is intrinsically linked to the work of our Playhouse Connect team and to our organisation wide strategies for Diversity and Inclusion.

This is a full-time, fixed-term contract of 35 hours per week. Some evening and weekend work will be required. Pay for this role is £25,979 per year. Benefits at Leeds Playhouse include 5 weeks holiday entitlement (plus 1.6 weeks of bank holidays), that increases with length of continuous employment; 2 wellbeing days a year; and discounts across our food and drinks, free show tickets and a local gym and swimming discount. Please see our job pack for more benefits we offer.

To find out more about this role, please download our job pack below.

To apply, please fill in both forms below before the application deadline.

The closing date for applications is 10am Monday 9 June 2025.

Interviews are currently to be scheduled for the 19 June 2025.