HR support for the people who carry the risk when something goes wrong, and the responsibility for keeping the show running.
HR Force NY works with leadership teams across Broadway, touring productions, and live-entertainment organizations who need a trusted, theatre-literate HR partner, not generic corporate advice.
When you're responsible for the production and the reputation.
You're balancing investors, unions, creatives, schedules, and budgets. When an HR issue surfaces, a leave request, a complaint, a conflict, you can't afford to guess your way through overlapping laws and contracts, delay decisions until counsel is free to weigh in on every detail, or hope that an informal fix won't come back as a grievance or headline.
Where producers and GMs usually start:
What you gain:
When you're running the show and quietly running HR.
Most company managers are already acting as intake for complaints and concerns, the first stop for leave and accommodations questions, and the person everyone expects to "have the answer" on policies and process. On top of travel, payroll, schedules, budgets, and daily logistics, HR can't be yet another full-time job.
Where company managers usually feel the difference:
We're a fit if:
When you're operating with limited internal HR.
As a nonprofit theatre, festival, or presenting organization, you're often balancing mission, donors, and community expectations; asking operations, general management, or HR generalists to carry senior-level HR decisions; and navigating leave, accommodations, restructures, or complaints without a dedicated HR leader.
Where nonprofits and presenters usually start:
We're a fit if:
If your role doesn't sit neatly in one of these boxes, but you recognize the situations, we can still help. Share what's happening in your production or organization, and we'll help you see which service level is the right place to start.