Cameron Mackintosh Limited (CML) is a global leader in theatrical production, celebrated for its exceptional contributions to the world of musical theatre. Renowned for producing some of the most iconic and enduring musicals, the company’s repertoire includes Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Cats, three of the longest-running musicals in history. Other legendary productions include Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Mary Poppins, and more recently Hamilton and Old Friends.
Cameron Mackintosh Ltd are seeking a Technical Director (UK). This is a vital leadership role and is responsible for realising CML’s productions, projects, and events on time and on budget. This role also manages CML’s technical team setting a positive and collaborative working culture, identifying and developing talent within the team.
The technical department delivers all the technical elements of Cameron Mackintosh’s programme – this includes productions, projects, and events across all locations within the UK and internationally.
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Line Manage all UK based technical staff including Production Managers and Administrators
- Collaborate with CML stakeholders to manage staffing and financial resources for the technical and health and safety aspects of all productions in the UK & Ireland.
- Support CML’s in-house production managers to deliver high-quality technical support.
- Forecast risk, manage workloads, and maintain clear communication with internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead the technical department’s development and training, setting expectations around behaviour and language, and modelling inclusive recruitment practices.
- Act as an engaged and proactive member of the senior management team, contributing to all aspects of CML’s strategic plans.
- Contribute to the development of CML’s programming schedule, capital development plans, budgeting, and maintenance planning.
- Identify and develop opportunities for the technical department.
If you are passionate about theatre and have the skills and experience to lead our technical department, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join Cameron Mackintosh Limited and be part of our legacy of creating world-class theatrical productions.
If you have any questions about the role please contact hr@camack.co.uk
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and have an equal opportunity approach across all personal characteristics.
Please note that all applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Cameron Mackintosh has been producing shows since 1967 and remains the world’s most prolific producer of musicals in theatre history.
As well as producing three of the world’s longest running musicals, Les Misérables, The Phantom of The Opera and Cats, his legendary productions include Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Oliver!, Side By Side By Sondheim, Little Shop Of Horrors, Song And Dance, Tomfoolery, The Witches Of Eastwick and Five Guys Named Moe. His acclaimed new productions of My Fair Lady, Oklahoma and Carousel have all been International successes, as have his reinvented new productions of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and The Phantom of The Opera. Cameron is also co-producer with Jeffrey Seller of Hamilton in London.
In 2013, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables which is one of the most successful movies ever of an original stage musical. The concert version of Les Misérables, which was first staged in 1989 at Domain Park in Sydney, has proved to be just as successful as the staged musical around the world. It has been filmed three times – at the Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Arena and the Gielgud Theatre and is continually rescreened on TV and in cinemas throughout the world and, alongside his spectacular Royal Albert Hall production of The Phantom of the Opera, regularly breaking attendance records for live recording performances of musical theatre.
Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. They house many of London’s most successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, has been rebuilt and renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim who died in 2021. The last show he and Cameron were working on, Old Friends, premiered onstage and then TV as a sensational all-star gala last year and is now open at the Gielgud Theatre for a limited season with a terrific cast, headed by Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga.
In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his visiting professor and his current professor is Adjoa Andoh, co-star of Bridgerton.
Music Theatre International, the world’s largest owner of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, is now one of Cameron’s companies. Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and he is the first British producer ever to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame.
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