The PMF Membership Survey is now open. All PMF members should have received an email with a link to the survey, which will close on 1st November. The results from this survey help the committee prioritise the work we do, and give us valuable information about our membership and what

Earlier in the year The Production Family generously agreed to sponsor the PMF Mentoring Scheme to the tune of £400.  It has been decided to use this sponsorship to fund one or several mentees to further their Mentorships. We now invite PMF Mentees to submit costed proposals to fund either a visit

We are delighted to welcome Jonah Stein back to the committee as a Student and Young Member (SYM).  He is currently the Technical Manager for Ballet Cymru. You can read more about him here. Jonah Says: I am excited to be re-joining the PMF, having previously served as SYM of

We are pleased to announce our Edinburgh Social 2024. Please join us on Saturday 17th August from 6pm to 8pm in the Assembly Club Bar,  George Square Gardens, EH8 9JZ. Everyone is welcome, and please bring your colleagues! The bar can be tricky to find! It is is located in

We hope you will come to our Seminar at the ABTT Theatre Show It is on the Wednesday (5th June) at 12.30 in the Londesborough Room. Entitled The Theatre Green Book – Tricks, Tips and Sharing for Theatre Production,  the seminar is sponsored by J & C Joel. It will

We are delighted to announce that JHAV have come on board as Production Sponsors for the PMF. Production sponsorship contributes to the production of PMF communication with its members and the wider world. JHAV are a team of industry leading event specialists based in the South West of England. We

The PMF is pleased to announce that our AGM will take place on Wednesday 20th March, at 4pm GMT on Zoom. This is our opportunity to review the work of the PMF over the last year.

Thanks to everyone who came to the third of our UK/US Town Halls, hosted by our new US Associate, Lawrence Bennett, Director of Production, Alliance Theater, Atlanta, Georgia. The video is now available As with our previous two trans-Atlantic Town Halls, it will be a chance for Production and Technical

We are pleased to announce the panels for Diversity Day at the Royal Opera House on Monday 22nd January. Forum 1. Diversification of production and technical workforce and pathways into it. sponsored by Autograph Sound Chair. Sally Garner-Gibbons Apprenticeships Co-ordinator and Technical Youth Theatre Co-ordinator for Chichester Festival Theatre Sylvia

The PMF is delighted to be presenting two Forums on the subject of Diversity and Inclusion in Technical Theatre. Generously hosted by The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and sponsored by Autograph Sound and J & C Joels, our Diversity Day will be an opportunity to share and discuss experiences

Diversity & Inclusion – What does this mean for Production Managers? The PMF is delighted to be presenting two Forums on the subject of Diversity and Inclusion in Technical Theatre. Hosted by The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, our Diversity Day will be an opportunity to share and discuss experiences

The Production Managers’ Forum is really excited to be returning to TheatreCraft at the Royal Opera House on Monday 20th November 2023.

Mentoring. “You land this job as PM and suddenly you are Head of Health & Safety, running fire drills and evacuation procedures, then having to do a performance review of staff that were under-performing, trying to set budgets for the following year based on the very scant information, dealing with

Thanks to everyone who came to the Town Hall. Chaired by Suzy Somerville, Director of Productions at Birmingham Rep, it was a was a wide ranging, informative, thought provoking continuation of the discussion started in our Seminar at the ABTT Theatre Show in July. You can now watch the video

We are looking to add a number of new members to the committee that is responsible for the general running and development of the PMF. All Committee Members give their services for free and fit their involvement with the PMF around other commitments and calls on their time. Due to

We are delighted to announce that our 1,200th member registered on the PMF website last week, and we have just posted our 700th Job Opportunity for Production and Technical Managers, and we have reached 1,000 followers on LinkedIn. These milestones epitomise what the PMF is about. Jill Robertshaw, Deputy Production

The video of our Forum at the ABTT Theatre Show is now available. Many thanks again to TAIT for their sponsorship, and to Mark Dakin for chairing, and to the panel of Ben Arkell and Misha Mah.

We are delighted that Mark Dakin, Managing Director TAIT Neasden & Haverhill, UK, will be chairing the discussion on Diversity in Technical Theatre. We can now confirm that the panel will be made up of Production Managers Ben Arkell and Misha Mah The  Forum will be at the ABTT Theatre Show

We are delighted that TAIT have agreed to sponsor our forum on Diversity in Technical Theatre and that Mark Dakin, Managing Director TAIT Neasden & Haverhill, UK, will be chairing the panel. The  Forum will be at the ABTT Theatre Show at 12.00 on Wednesday 7th June in the Londesborough

Are you going to the ABTT Theatre Show? We are! We will be running a Seminar on Diversity in the Londesborough Room on Wednesday 7th at 12.00. In an era of skills and labour shortages, we will be discussing how to make technical theatre available to all. Please join us

The PMF is interested in working with a Development professional on a commission basis. The Fundraising and Income Coordinator would take responsibility for developing and running our income generating activities.

We are pleased to announce the May Town Hall. This will be on Thursday 25th May from 16.00 GMT. As well as getting updates from the PMF membership, we will be talking about mentoring and our plans for re-launching our programme. Please join us on Zoom if you can, although