Producer

We are seeking an experienced freelance Producer to join Blue Fondue and manage the delivery of Je L’aime, an intimate immersive theatre production set inside real apartments.

The piece explores the emotional unravelling of a marriage during what is supposed to be a celebratory housewarming party. The audience attend as guests, witnessing the relationship fracture over the course of 70 minutes.

The production was developed and tested through a work-in-progress sharing in London in April 2026, which was very well received. It now moves into full delivery.

The immediate focus of the role is the delivery and day-to-day management of a five-week London run opening on 9 October 2026, staged exclusively in London apartments. Alongside this, the Producer will lead the commercial strategy for corporate buy-outs and work with the Executive Producer to assess the viability of taking the production onto the international festival circuit.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Producer with strong organisational leadership, commercial instinct and international experience to help shape both the production and its future life.

Key Responsibilities

Producing & Project Management

• Lead overall production planning and delivery.
• Manage schedules, budgets, and contracts.
• Coordinate communication across creative and technical teams.
• Ensure compliance, insurance, and risk management for performances in residential spaces.

London Season Management (Five-Week Run)

• Take operational ownership of the five-week London run, from opening on 9 October 2026 through to close.
• Manage the performance schedule, staffing rotas, and front-of-house operation across all apartment venues.
• Act as the principal point of contact for apartment hosts, building management, and neighbours for the duration of the run.
• Monitor ticket sales, capacity, and income against budget, escalating issues early.
• Maintain licensing, insurance, safety and neighbour-relations compliance throughout the run.
• Troubleshoot live operational problems and hold the standard of the audience experience night to night.
• Manage the get-out, host handovers, and reinstatement of apartment venues at the end of the run.

Partnerships & Corporate Buy-Outs

• Develop and deliver a strategy for securing corporate buy-outs, both within the five-week run and as standalone engagements afterwards.
• Identify and approach partners, agencies, and corporate clients whose interests align with the work - leadership development, culture and belonging, communication and emotional literacy.
• Build and manage the sales pipeline: outreach, pitching, pricing, negotiation, and conversion.
• Package and price buy-out offers, including bespoke or hosted variants of the production.
• Manage contracting, delivery and aftercare for booked buy-outs.
• Report on pipeline progress and revenue against target.

International Touring & Festival Circuit Development

• Work strategically with the Executive Producer to assess the viability of touring the production on the international festival circuit.
• Research and map relevant festivals, priority markets, submission windows, and programming cycles.
• Model the cost, logistics and revenue implications of festival touring in a domestic-space format.
• Build relationships with festival programmers, presenting partners, organisations and stakeholders.
• Prepare pitch materials and submissions, and coordinate any resulting scouting, travel or visa requirements.
• Produce a clear recommendation to the Executive Producer and Creative Director on whether, where, and how to tour.

Venue & Apartment Acquisition

• Support strategies to encourage apartment donations.
• Manage agreements with hosts.
• Coordinate schedules and logistics.

Marketing & Campaign Coordination

• Collaborate with the marketing and design teams.
• Support campaign timelines and partnerships.
• Oversee logistics for promotional activity.

Production Delivery

• Oversee rehearsal and installation logistics.
• Support the creative team through opening.
• Prepare operational frameworks for touring.

Person Specification

Essential:

• Proven experience producing theatre or immersive work (6 years +)
• Experience running a live season or extended run, with day-to-day operational responsibility.
• Experience working on touring productions.
• Experience of working Theatre Tax Relief.
• Experience selling to or delivering for corporate clients, sponsors, or commercial partners.
• Strong organisational and budgeting skills.
• Ability to manage complex logistics and multiple stakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and problem-solving ability.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the international festival circuit and its submission and programming cycles.
• Experience working in non-traditional or site-specific performance.
• Existing international networks or contacts.
• Bi-lingual or multi-lingual skills.
• Experience with partnership development or venue sourcing.

Fee

£8,000.

Timeline

• Work in Progress sharing: April 2026 (completed)
• Rehearsals for opening: 14.09.26
• Installation & previews for opening: 05.10.26
• Opening: 09.10.26 — five-week run in London 
• Run closes: 13.11.26
• Corporate buy-outs: during and following the London run
• Festival circuit assessment: ongoing, reporting to the Executive Producer

How to Apply

Please send expressions of interest including a CV and/or portfolio to:

Ilma Tiki, Executive Producer & Sophie Larsmon, Creative Director via jobs@bluefondue.oc.uk . Please use ‘Je L’aime Producer Application’ in the Subject Line

• Deadline: 28.08.26
• Interviews: 03.09.26 + 04.09.26
• Start: ASAP

We particularly welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and international perspectives. The Creative Director lives in London, UK; the Executive Producer lives in Switzerland. The London run (October–November 2026) will take place in London, UK.

This is a hybrid role. Some work can be done remotely and there will be fixed periods where the Producer needs to be in London, UK.

Blue Fondue

Blue Fondue is a new production house and creative studio founded by Ilma Tiki. We design intimate, participatory experiences that bring people together across cultures, languages and lived realities.

We work at the intersection of immersive theatre, experience design and social ritual, creating formats that feel more like shared encounters than performances. Our work often takes place in non-traditional cultural spaces including homes, temporary architectures, and other everyday environments. We invite participants to actively shape the experience rather than observe it from the outside.

At the core of Blue Fondue is a belief that connection is designed: through attention, pacing, language, hospitality and care. Many of our projects explore themes of belonging, identity, emotional literacy, and the subtle ways language and culture influence how we relate to one another.

We collaborate with artists, writers, researchers, and communities developing immersive works. Each project is approached as lived research with the aim of creating experiences that are thoughtful, human, and quietly transformative.

Why Blue Fondue?

The name refers to blue as the colour of distance and possibility, something slightly out of reach, unfamiliar, and calling; and fondue as a shared ritual of gathering. Together, they frame our work: collective encounters with the unknown. Come and take the leap with us.