Social Media and Web Content Strategist

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Upstaged Entertainment Group

Empowering our Nation's Student Performers

EVENT PRODUCER

UpStaged Entertainment Group “UpStaged,” and its National Collegiate Performing Arts (NCPA)™ brand, seek a Producer to help lead the production efforts of “A Very Purple Holiday” show at Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University on December 2nd, 2025.

The Producer will be a key decision-maker, working closely with the CEO, CMO, UpStaged staff, and student team (Dolphin Show producers) to lead:

• Production Leadership - Create and lead a team of staff and volunteers to successfully helm our 2.5-hour show, in lead-up and day of the event

• Preparation and Details - Ownership on rentals, vendors, logistics, and making sure nothing is falling through the cracks

• Concept Execution -Taking the show's established vision/format to help realize a wintertime look and feel

• Budget - Helping to create and be the guardian of a production budget

ABOUT THE SHOW

LIVE . . . FROM THE WILDCAT FAMOUS . . . CAHN AUDITORIUM

Northwestern Student Performing Arts and the National Collegiate Performing Arts (NCPA)™

Present

A VERY PURPLE HOLIDAY!

Coming Home to your WILDCAT FAMILY for the Season

15 OF NU'S BEST GROUPS . . . 15 PERFORMING ARTS GENRES . . .15 UNFORGETTABLE HOLIDAY PERFORMANCES

A Cappella : Asian, Indian, Jewish

Dance : Ballet, Bollywood, K-Pop

Vocal : Choral, Gospel, Opera

Instrumental : Jazz, Mariachi, Orchestral

Theatrical : Comedy, Show Choir, Slam Poetry

On Sat Dec. 2nd our National Collegiate Performing Arts (NCPA)™- underneath our

UpStaged Entertainment Group - is producing a Holiday show (along with Student

producers from Dolphin) at Northwestern's Cahn Auditorium — featuring 15 of NU's best performing groups. As background, the show is like “ A Very Quaker Holiday: Penn Lights Up Carnegie Hall! we produced, with UPenn's performing groups, a tremendous success, 3-day Sept. Carnegie sell-out for Dec. show - no marketing - with long waiting list.

The shows have a 20th century Bing Crosby Holiday Revue meets 21st century TikTok feel - i.e., nostalgic aura, dynamic content. Also, to have Alum cameo performances, NU Celebrity Alum Co-Hosts, Deans, mascot etc.

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

The ideal candidate would have the following:

• Record of producing events - Including overseeing execution, run of show, budget management, handling talent, creative direction, A/V, and technical production elements, and back of house management
• Strong written/verbal communication skills - Ability to write and/or edit clear, structured copy and oversee and effectively communicate - e-mail to Zoom - with internal team, as well as external partners and contractors
• A “roll up your sleeves” doer - High comfort level of proactive work in a lean, entrepreneurial, and nimble organization
• Effective working in diverse teams - UpStaged has a small but diverse (age, location, background, experience) virtual team - NYC to Hong Kong - in a dynamic environment

• BONUS : Existing Northwestern University and Evanston community relationships -Ability to call on and connect with vendors, partners, student groups, university departments, and community members across the Evanston community and Northwestern campus

Job Type : Contract

Location : Chicago, Evanston Area - Hybrid

Compensation : Project

ABOUT UPSTAGED

As the NCAA of college and high school performing arts, we empower and organize the nation's completely fragmented, unmonetized 7.5M student performers (500k groups, 35 genres) through similar practices as their well-organized 480k student athlete peers (20k teams, 24 sports), who generate over $14 Billion annually.

By superimposing successful and profitable sports business models on top of the performing arts landscape, UpStaged is creating a market-changing platform for these committed young student performers, who deserve such equal opportunities for competition, community, recognition, and desperately needed financial funding.

At our base, we specialize in producing "March Madness meets Pitch Perfect" style bracketed championships across 35 diverse performing genres such as jazz, a cappella, comedy, mariachi, and gospel. In addition, our event portfolio includes a wide variety of show formats, such as our college holiday specials being pitched to broadcast.

Our most recent event, the 2025 NCPA & NHSPA Step Championships, held in Harlem's world-famous Apollo Theater with prizes totaling $10,000, was a blowout success and received extensive featured media coverage in outlets such as NBC, Fox, NPR Morning Edition, and Black Enterprise.

As we build a relationship with a target demographic of millions of untapped 16-24 yr. old student performers and their tens of millions of loyal family members, friends, fans and college alumni, the broader business model is to own the content, data, and platform, the IMDB ($3.3 Bil. valuation) of College and High School performing arts.

Our most comparable company is Varsity Spirit (organizes cheer like UpStaged's 35 performing genres) and sold to Bain for $750+ Million.

Example Press: A Cappella Event Press - NPR, Upstaged DJ competition at MTV/VMA 2022 - iHeart Radio Station & Apollo Step Event Press - Black Enterprise

Additional Background Materials: UpStaged Promotional Video & 2020 Lincoln Center & 2025 Apollo Theater Step Championship Highlights

Job Types: Temporary, Contract

Pay: $1,250.00 - $1,500.00 per week

Benefits:

• Referral program

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Evenings as needed
• Nights as needed
• Weekends as needed

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Event marketing: 5 years (Required)
• Social media marketing: 5 years (Required)
• Public relations: 4 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Evanston, IL 60201