Fi Fraser Production Management

ABOUT

Fi Fraser Production Management is led by multi-award-winning Production Manager Fi Fraser, who brings more than 30 years’ experience delivering theatre, dance, festivals and touring work across the UK and internationally.

Fi specialises in bringing complex productions to life, from established theatre venues and touring circuits to outdoor, site-responsive and non-traditional spaces. She has extensive experience managing large-scale and multi-show programmes, working across production, technical delivery, touring, health and safety, access and sustainability.

Fi has Production Managed six editions of the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival for Imaginate, delivering work across venues and spaces throughout Edinburgh. She has worked with Grid Iron since 2001, Production Managing more than 25 productions, including Muster Station: Leith for the Edinburgh International Festival. In 2004, and Mayflies 2026. Fi was part of the team that received the SMA Award for Excellence in Stage Management.

Since 2009, Fi has worked extensively with Vanishing Point, managing national and international tours for productions including Interiors, The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler, Tomorrow, The Dark Carnival and Metamorphosis.

In August 2025, Fi was Production Manager for The Hub at the Edinburgh International Festival, overseeing a different concert every day throughout the month, spanning jazz, classical and contemporary performance. The role involved managing rapid daily turnarounds and a constantly changing programme, while maintaining high production standards across each event.

Fi has a particular interest in finding practical and creative solutions for challenging spaces and circumstances. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she supported and delivered a range of innovative outdoor and site-responsive projects, including Field Something for the Future Now with Curious Seed, Take A Seat with the Envelope Room and The Lyceum, and The Lament for Sheku Bayoh with the National Theatre of Scotland and The Lyceum.

She also played a key role in delivering the first in-person festival in Scotland in 2021, working as Festival Production Manager for Assembly Festival and overseeing more than 40 productions across three venues.

Fi is a founding board member of ARMS (Arts Resource Management Scotland), supporting the development of the arts production and management sector and promoting practical, sustainable approaches to how work is made and delivered.

Arts Resource Management Scotland

Fi has also worked with

The Traverse Theatre · Perth Theatre · Scottish Dance Theatre · Mull Theatre · Pitlochry Festival Theatre · The Citizens Theatre · The Byre · Unique Events · Suspect Culture · Visible Fictions · Scottish Opera · Dundee Rep · ThickSkin · Vox Motus · National Theatre of Scotland · Stellar Quines · Ross McKay & Freshly Squeezed Productions · Scottish Theatre Producers · Polar Bears Go Up · The Letter J · PW Productions · The Lowry · Strawboys · Rob Heaslip Dance · Farah Saleh · Charlotte Mclean · Creative Electric · Tortoise in a Nutshell · SHOTPUT · KT Producing

In 2026 she will be worked on:

• Size Matters with Mamoru Iriguchi, produced by Vanishing Point.

• Winter Residency @ The Citizens Theatre - produced by Vanishing Point.

• A Giant on The Bridge, Scottish Tour with KT Producing.

• These Mechanisms - Scottish Tour.

• Many Good Men, Civic Digits, East End Park - DAFC.

• Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Imaginate.

• Mayflies, Grid iron - Fringe 2026

• Balfour Reparations, Farah Saleh.

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, NTS.

• Concerned Others, Scottish Tour - Tortoise in a Nutshell.

• Una - Scottish Tour - Tortoise in a Nutshell.

Future productions include:

• Romeo + Juliet - With English touring Company and The Royal Lyceum

• Balfour Reparations by Farah Saleh.