Tech, Stage Management and Production Management

I am primarily a technical stage manager or deputy stage manger, with extensive experience show calling, running rehearsals, operating a range lighting, projection and sound systems including EOS and QLAB, and programming sound and projection using both QLAB and SCS. I also work as a production manager, handling budgets and logistics. Find out more about some of my recent roles below. You can contact me about relevant work at tech@jakemorry.com or stagemanagement@jakemorry.com. Find my CV here.

Confetti falls in front of Max Fosh as he celebrates the finale of his stand up tour.

Max Fosh: Zocial Butterfly

Technical Stage Manager

Youtuber Max Fosh took on a national comedy tour in autumn 2021, and I joined him as stage manager, with responsibility for get in and running of lighting, projection and sound, as well as other rider elements.

Three young people from Croydon make cowboy poses on a deep purple background

My Life As A Cowboy

Technical Stage Manager

Conor is stuck. Croydon’s too small for a teenager with dreams. Will forming an all-singing, all-dancing country & western tribute act be his ticket to escape? A riotous, heartwarming comedy.

Women in lab coats investigate a live streaming camera on stage.

Move Fast and Break Things

Production Manager

A theatrical deep-dive into the data-sphere, using movement, live video and puppetry to tell the story of searching for the man who invented Search.

Featuring custom projection screens, live camera feeds, live voice modulation, and sand based puppetry

Chatham House Rules

Technical Stage Manager

Directed by Emily Aboud, this blistering new play, written and performed by Louis Rembges, examines the secret world of the 1% and the power of social media.

A comedian stands on stage in front of a large audience.

The 99 Comedy Club

Technical Stage Manager

Freelance work at one of the West End’s foremost stand up venues, running tech and working with some of the best stand ups in the UK, including Dane Baptiste, Patrick Monohan, Nathan Caton, Matt Green, and more.

Spring Awakening

Deputy Stage Manager

I called Steven Sater’s coming-of-age rock musical at The Oxford Playhouse.

Made In Dagenham

Deputy Stage Manager

Calling David Arnold and Richard Bean’s musical at the Oxford Playhouse.

Two people look encouragingly at each other in front of a projected background on stage.

Public Domain

Assistant producer and stage manager

A dark, funny, verbatim musical about the internet: Those who own it; those who live in it; and you. I was assistant producer and stage manager for the West End Transfer of this new musical from Francessca Forristal and Jordan Paul Clarke.

The Threepenny Opera

Deputy Stage Manager

I called Simon Stephen’s adaptation of the original Berkoff ‘Play With Songs’ at The Oxford Playhouse.

BEAM Showcase

Assistant Stage manager

The UK’s biggest showcase of new musical theatre. A hybrid, digital and live, event withpitches from 38 new musicals in development, some pre-filmed, some livestreamed, with ideas ranging from daytime bhangra raves, to climate change told as a love story, from challenging the UK’s hostile environment policy to singing lesbian pirates. Including the song prize hosted by Harriot Thorpe.

TEDx Oxford

Stage Manager

The internationally recognised inspirational conference at The New Theatre, Oxford.

A drawn image of three young people looking whistfully in the same direction.

The Promise

Technical Stage Manager and Lighting and Sound Designer

Love, youth and the devastating effects of war. The Promise explores these powerful, enduring themes in the context of one of the most deadly, yet often disregarded, events of World War II: The Siege of Leningrad. Directed by Ian Reddington.

The Oxford Revue & Friends

Deputy Stage Manager

Oxford’s famous sketch troupe were joined by the Cambridge Footlights and The Durham Review at The Oxford Playhouse.

Oxford Playhouse

Stage Technician

I work as a freelance stage technician for the Oxford Playhouse, helping with ins and outs on touring shows such as Mischief Theatre’s Groan Ups and Ralph Fiennes’ Four Quartets.