Bring The Drama Festival Event: What Is Being A General Manager In Theatre?
Join Wofai Je, Creative producer and established model who has previously been Interim General Manager at Gate Theatre and is now General Manager at Boundless Theatre, for a discussion about what General Managing in theatre means and what a career doing it is like.
Wofai will share a bit about his career to date, how he got into General Managing and producing, and how you may already have the skills to be one too!
Wednesday 20th March 2024
15:30-16:30
Zoom
To book your FREE place and receive the Zoom link, please email [email protected].
More about Wofai Je:
LTC x MOBOs Fellow 2023 Wofai specialises in visuals and aesthetics stemming from his fashion background. He’s a Creative Producer and established model. With a focus on executive acumen, EDI, bid writing, casting and script dissection, he is passionate about interdisciplinary projects that push boundaries and challenge societal norms. One half of award-winning multidisciplinary arts organisation Initiative.dkf (Albany Artists of Change 2021, Eclipse Award 2020, Tamasha Associate Artists 2019-20, Talawa MAKE: Sustain Artists 2017-18); he recently left his position as Interim GM at Gate Theatre to become GM at Boundless. He is also a member of Stage ONE Producers programme.
Working across theatre, short film and events, credits include: Executive Producer on Is Dat U Yh? (Brixton House), Casting & Creative Associate on Bootycandy (Gate Theatre, 2023); An Ode To short film screening (RichMix, 2022); Casting Director on Dear Elizabeth (Theatro Technis, 2021); Is Dat U Yh? (GDIF, 2021); LUDALA Collection short films (EdFringe Digital, 2021); Eclipse Award winning piece Fragments Of A Complicated Mind (Theatre503, 2020); national tour of outdoor piece Scalped (Brighton Festival; GDIF; SIRF, 2019), Melanin Box Festival (2018 & 2015); Associate Producer on Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu’s Sweet Like Chocolate, Boy (Brockley Jack, 2018); VAULT Festival (2017); short film From Behind Us (UpShot #50Uprise) et al.
Pronouns: (he/him)