Benjamin Alborough
London, GB
Bio
Benjamin is a theatre producer and programmer and recipient of the 2022 Stage One bursary award. With his company’s BJA Productions he manages tour bookings and general management for a wide range of clients across both the subsidised and commercial sectors. With his other company Liebenspiel, he helps develop new comedy and cabaret formats and programmes seasons of work in existing venues and acts as a consultant for venue programmers and live promoters. Benjamin has been producing since 2014, acting as Associate Producer for Islington’s Hope Theatre and Head of Programming for RED Entertainment. Over the course of the last five years, Benjamin has placed over 800 performances of just over 60 shows in approximately 300 venues around the UK. Complete list of programming credits on website.
Bio
Benjamin is a theatre producer and programmer and recipient of the 2022 Stage One bursary award. With his company’s BJA Productions he manages tour bookings and general management for a wide range of clients across both the subsidised and commercial sectors. With his other company Liebenspiel, he helps develop new comedy and cabaret formats and programmes seasons of work in existing venues and acts as a consultant for venue programmers and live promoters. Benjamin has been producing since 2014, acting as Associate Producer for Islington’s Hope Theatre and Head of Programming for RED Entertainment. Over the course of the last five years, Benjamin has placed over 800 performances of just over 60 shows in approximately 300 venues around the UK. Complete list of programming credits on website.
Producing Practice
Since going freelance I have worked for a wide range of programming clients in the commercial and subsidised sectors; across comedy and theatre, large scale and small. With me you get a bespoke, boutique service that you won't find in one of the larger, impersonal theatre programming companies.
I negotiate deals and have a great understanding of the dynamics of theatre negotiations, tour finances, effective publicity design for regional audiences and settlement processing. I insist on following Equity guidelines on tours, including maximum driving distance between shows. I have highly specialised knowledge about the industry and in going freelance my goal was to help people for whom these kind of business practices is a barrier to them bringing their work in front of audiences
Basically, all the boring stuff that distracts creative people from the actual show they're putting on!
I also produce shows and help develop comedy/ cabaret formats for the stage, as an individual and with Liebenspiel. I consult, develop (and then often programme on tour) new comedy shows with a goal to make them long term commercially sustainable.
Areas of Expertise
-UK Regional tour programming (subsdised and commercial)
-UK Regional marketing
-Off-West End general management
-Edinburgh Fringe programming (venue and client side)
-Edinburgh Fringe marketing
-Creative producing & live development
-Contracting and legal
-Team Management
-Tour Booking
- Programming and Producing Small-Scale Festivals
- Fringe Theatre
Collaboration Interests
Please reach out to me if you have ever wanted to take a show on tour but don't know where to start.
Please reach out to me if you have a show that's just had a fantastic run somewhere and you don't want its life to end.
Please reach out to me if you want someone who can get exactly the same results as a major programming agency but with a much more independent voice.
Please reach out to me if you'd like to take a show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Please reach out to me if you have an awesome idea that you want to do something with.
