SAPPHIRE AS STAGE MANAGER - Full Time, May 2025 - Current

Concert and live event manager who works closely with a team of highly motivated and skilled theatrical technicians and administrative staff to produce one of Chicago’s most visible outdoor summer events – the Grant Park Music Festival, featuring the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Responsible for the planning, setup, and execution of all stage-related logistics for rehearsals, performances, and special events. Ensures that all technical, equipment, and stage management needs are met, creating a seamless performance environment for musicians, conductors, and guest artists.

• Develop and execute orchestra and percussion stage plots for 20 orchestral programs during the 10-week performance season.
  Communicate with Music Director, Guest Conductors, Visiting Artists, Audio Team, and Production Management regarding artistic, logistical, and equipment needs for each program.

• Oversee daily setup for a total of 50 rehearsals and 30 concerts as part of the regular orchestra and chorus schedules.

• Ensure rehearsal and performance compliance with labor agreements in collaboration with Orchestra and Chorus Managers.

• Troubleshoot technical/logistical issues that arise during rehearsals and performances.

• Serve as a primary communication channel for musicians, conductors, and guest artists regarding stage setups and any changes, concerns, or needs as they emerge.

• Coordinate with backstage crew and artists during rehearsals and performances to execute efficient stage changes and entrances.
  Foster a positive, efficient, inclusive, and collaborative production staff culture.

• Promote a safe working environment, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and venue regulations.

ABOUT THE GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL

“For 90 years, the Grant Park Music Festival has been Chicago's summer musical sensation, demonstrating that classical music, performed by a world-class orchestra and chorus, can have a transformative impact on the city.”

• Began as a creative response to the great depression in the 1930s

• Led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and Chorus Director Christopher Bell, each summer the Festival offers a 10-week season of concerts, artistic development initiatives, radio broadcasts and community engagement and outreach programs.

• Today, it operates as a unique collaboration among the Grant Park Orchestral Association, the Chicago Park District and the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

About Encore Global

“Events that transform”

• Events have power. The power to connect and inspire.

• When people come together, ideas take root. Relationships are built. Real change happens.

• With imagination and skill, the latest technology, and a passion for excellence, we create innovative event solutions.

• Our global team of creators, innovators and experts transform events into immersive, collaborative experiences that deliver real results.

Sapphire as Operations Manager - Full time, August 2024-Current

• Manage daily floor operations, supervising audio-visual technicians, and ensuring timely delivery and quality of services and equipment.

• Oversee inventory control, billing, scheduling, and workflow, ensuring customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

• Lead, mentor, and train staff, promoting professional development, and ensuring adherence to company standards.

• Foster client relationships, providing outstanding customer service and upselling opportunities on-site.

About company one

“At C1…

• We strive to create intentional, authentic theatrical experiences that uniquely integrate content, style, space, and community.

• We amplify new stories and adventurous theatrical forms to define what’s next in the American theatre.

• We focus on growing our students’ authority, voice, and point of view, while developing artists into the next generation of change makers.

• Our work is responsive to what’s happening in our city, nation, and world.

• We work towards justice by challenging inequity and oppressive systems.

• Innovation, forward thinking, and collaboration lead the way.

• We center our work on reciprocal relationships with community partners.

• Representation is an act of social justice.

• Our growth is motivated by questioning the status quo, internally and externally.

• We strive for artistic excellence as defined by our collective community.”

Work Samples:

sapphire as production manager - Full time, December 2023-August 2024

• Supervise all Company One Theatre productions & public facing special events, including tasks but not limited to:

  • Create and manage budgets.

  • Working with Operations Manager to issue payments in a timely manner.

  • Create/manage production calendars for all company productions and special events o Secure, schedule, and manage all venues (auditions, rehearsals, performances) for productions and special events.

  • In conversation with Program Producers, identify staffing requirements for each production and event, and lead the recruitment and hiring processes for production staff including listing positions, interviewing, and contracting o Schedule/Manage first meetings & read throughs in collaboration with New Work & Connectivity. o Manage personnel – ensure designers are meeting deadlines/contracted agreements, ensure/facilitate proper communication between production staff, troubleshoot personnel issues.

    1. Create agenda for and lead all production meetings/other meetings as necessary.

    2. Responsible for the communication of deadlines and other critical dates. o Create a final draft of designer tech schedule o Manage overhire staff during build and tech weeks and load outs.

    3. Schedule and manage load out o Attend all design runs, cue to cue, tech and dress rehearsal o Be available for paper and dry techs o Be on call to respond to performance report issues.

    4. Manage company storage facilities & equipment as necessary

    5. Work with the HR & Operations Managers to keep the staffing database updated.

About emmanuel music

“Through its performing, teaching, mentoring, and scholarly activities, Emmanuel Music occupies a unique niche: a living laboratory for the music of J. S. Bach. Emmanuel Music finds new and creative ways for audiences and musicians to engage with the artistic, spiritual, and humanistic aspects of the music of J. S. Bach, the cornerstone of our musical output for our first fifty years.” Learn More

Work Samples

Full orchestra with traditional Indian instruments on-site at the Historic Emmanuel Church, 3 camera setup

Full orchestra with vocal soloists and dancing ensemble, 8 camera setup at “Arts at the Armory”

Full choir and chamber orchestra, on site at the Historic Emmanuel Church, 3 Camera Setup

Sapphire as production and media manager - Part time, September 2022-February 2024

• Serving as Stage Manager and Livestream Director for weekly performances

  • Responsible for the whole of weekly productions delivering a high quality and professional product.

• Managing Rehearsals

• Creating Weekly Stage Plots

• Supporting Artists on Site

• Archiving and organizing digital assets

• Equipment Management

• Oversight of intern team of 1-3 students

• Left the job due to moving to a full time role elsewhere, Emmanuel Music was unwilling to keep Sapphire on without full availability.