Fringe Publicity Manager Job Description 

Responsibilities

• The Publicity Manager will support the Communications Director in an effort to expand the visibility of the Hollywood Fringe Festival by managing and developing the publicity department for the organization.

• Collaborate with the Communications Team on an Editorial Calendar and coordinate press releases with other marketing efforts (weekly newsletters, social media, etc).  

• Develop a Pitch Plan to creatively pitch new and existing press contacts about upcoming Fringe events and programs.

• Draft, edit and send press releases to our list of press and industry contacts.

• Maintain the Fringe Press List by researching new contacts, removing old contacts and building relationships with existing contacts.

• Secure news coverage for the Hollywood Fringe Festival as well as year-round initiatives (workshops, Town Halls, deadlines, etc).

• Influence decisions about marketing, advertising and other initiatives.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in publicity & press relations (Candidate must have experience pitching and/or writing press releases)

• Candidate should be proficient in basic computer skills (Bonus points for experience with Google Docs/Sheets, MailChimp and/or Slack)

• Available to work 5-10 hours per week in the off-season (July through December), 10-20+ hours per week during pre-season (January through March) and Festival season (April through June), depending on current initiatives.

• Desire to work in the Fringe environment: we are a young non-profit arts organization centered around an annual festival.

• Ideally, the candidate will be an imaginative, confident and hard-working team player.

What to Expect

• A fast-paced, collaborative work environment.

• A workplace for self-starters.

• A high level of contact with Senior Staff, especially the Communications Director.

• Opportunity to shape a role and advance in a young, active, and growing non-profit organization.

Qualified candidates should have prior experience (or similar skills), and excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and organizational skills. Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter describing why you would like to be a part of the Fringe team to our Communications Director, Stacy Jones Hill (stacyjones@hollywoodfringe.org). An honorarium will be provided each Fringe season.

Deadline to apply is October 1.

We are so excited to announce that the Hollywood Fringe Festival will return for its ninth year June 7th – 24th, 2018. Previews begin a week before and run May 31st – June 5th. All are invited to the Opening Night Party taking place on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 (there will be no scheduled performances on this date).
 
Registrants can get started today by creating a project. 

The second-to-last installment in our intern series comes from Effy Yizhou Yang, HFF17 Set Design Intern. 

I consider myself really lucky to be able to participate in the Fringe internship program. There are not many programs out there that has specific intern categories, such as Fringe TV, Volunteering Organization, Set Design, etc. Those specific categories allow the interns to focus on tasks that they are actually interested in and develop skills accordingly.

For example, not only was I helping in the execution and installment of the design, I was also encouraged to participate in the design process from the very beginning. The openness to ideas and collaborative working environment surprised me. However after meeting all the staff member in our intern luncheon, I realized this harmonious working relationship exists everywhere within the fringe team. Everyone works together towards one goal, which is to present a memorable and special theatre festival for participants.

My advice for next year’s interns is to think like you are the director of the fringe team, no matter what position you are on; to think about how you can make this year’s fringe better. You might just have the next great idea to help fringe to be better. 

I got interested in being a part of the Fringe after visiting Scotland in the summer of 2016. I was a stage manager for a show in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and I fell in love with the entire process. When it came to this summer, I knew that I wanted to be a part of something similar. I also knew that I wanted to be an intern during the summer, so when I saw that the Hollywood Fringe had a set design internship I was ecstatic! Everything was coming together, and it felt like the puzzle was completed.

I expected to be a part of something big, which isn’t wrong, but I didn’t realize how interconnected everyone is. I recognized people as they walked through the door, and I realized that while I helped create a huge thing that would be seen by hundreds that I was a part of a Fringe family. That blew my mind.

My favorite moment has to be when we finally finished the Fringe Central set. We had been working for nine days straight, and the space had completely transformed. The space started as a gutted and dirty room, but we made a new elegant home within it. You wouldn’t believe that it is the same room as before. All of us were looking around, and we realized that all of the sawdust, sun burns, and sweat were worth it. 

My most memorable moment has to be day one in the space. Here I am a fresh intern, and I am told, “go destroy that wall.” I was handed a hammer and a crowbar, and I went to work. I think I was laughing the entire time. The entire day was destroying things. It is so cool to think that I helped build the space from the ground up.

For next year’s interns, I would have to say work hard. Work hard and relentlessly. Everyone respects a hard worker and it opens up new doors. You will meet a lot of really awesome people who know how to do a lot of really awesome stuff. Listen to them, and make your impact.