About This Role
This leadership role provides artistic and executive direction for La Boite, shaping a distinctive and financially responsible artistic program. The Artistic Director & Co-CEO leads producing and creative partnerships and works with the Executive Director & Co-CEO to build relationships and revenue to support the organization's future.
Responsibilities
- Set and champion a clear artistic vision aligned with La Boite
- Lead annual and longer-term programming across productions, presentations, co-productions, and artist development
- Make programming choices that balance artistic merit, audience potential, financial stability, production capacity, and risk
- Create meaningful opportunities for Queensland artists and stories while maintaining a strong view of contemporary practice
- Develop the program early enough to support budgeting, production, marketing, and fundraising
- Oversee the artistic and educational direction of production education notes and learning resources, ensuring they reflect the work
- Be accountable for delivering the artistic program within approved budgets, timelines, and organizational capacity
- Set producing approaches, scope, budgets, and delivery requirements for major activity
- Lead negotiations for significant collaborations, co-productions, and presentations
- Support the Program Manager with clear priorities, decisions, and accountability
- Evaluate artistic activity to strengthen future programming and organizational learning
- Help build relationships with donors, sponsors, funding bodies, and government alongside the Executive Director and Development & Partnerships Manager
- Articulate La Boite
- Identify artistic opportunities that can generate philanthropic, government, or partnership support
- Build co-production, touring, and creative partnerships that extend La Boite
- Represent and advocate for La Boite across media, industry, government, and public forums
- Set the artistic narrative for seasons and productions and work with Marketing to translate it for audiences
- Use audience insight to inform programming and positioning without compromising artistic purpose
- Share accountability with the Executive Director for strategy, budgets, sustainability, reputation, and major organizational change
- Contribute to an inclusive, accountable culture and collaborate across artistic and business functions
- Act as La Boite
Requirements
- Executive leadership experience with strong commercial and financial literacy, including the ability to balance artistic ambition, audience opportunity, and organizational sustainability
- Significant artistic leadership, programming, or senior producing experience in theatre or the performing arts
- A compelling artistic perspective and demonstrated ability to develop and deliver ambitious work
- Strong relationships and credibility across artists, sector partners, government, funders, donors, and media
- Sound judgment, collaborative leadership, and the ability to operate effectively within a shared Co-CEO model
Important Details
- Measures of Success: Audience response, attendance, and engagement grow across a distinctive artistic program; the program is delivered within approved budgets, timelines, and organizational capacity; artistic risk, audience opportunity, and financial sustainability are balanced effectively; philanthropic, government, industry, and creative partnerships increase and diversify; the Co-CEO model provides clear, collaborative, and accountable leadership
