In this position, you’ll work closely with our director to create memorable dance pieces. Your chief responsibility will be to interpret the director’s vision into dances with the appropriate pacing, style, and movements. You will also be tasked with attending auditions and rehearsals, collaborating with other departments, and providing training to our dancers.  

Our Choreographer will need to be familiar with a wide variety of dance styles and capable of teaching them to others. You should also expect to collaborate with other departments, such as costume, music and design.

You will provide indispensable practical and organizational support to directors, performers, designers, and technical crew throughout the production and rehearsal process, and supervise onstage and backstage activity during performances to make sure the show goes off without a hitch. A huge part of the Stage Managers role is keeping everyone on track and on time. Tracking of props / characters / scene changes etc. This requires detailed notes in your script in to facilitate the nightly running of the show (you will know the show inside out). If there isn’t a specific prop handler, you might handle movement of props onstage and ensure they are returned to the prop table. 

Stage managers facilitate communication across all creative and technical departments, supervising preshow activities such as technical and safety checks, ensuring that everyone is ready for curtain and in the wings in time for their entrances.

Our Costume Designers tell a story through clothing, using the language of fashion to help express aspects of a production’s setting, mood, and characters. The job requires an understanding of stage production and an eye for creating standout visual designs. With each wardrobe element and accessory, costume designers bring the characters and settings to life, and immerse audiences—and actors—in their period, culture and world.

You will get to know the roles and relationships of the principal characters, followed by initial meetings with the director, set designer and other key figures as they define a vision for the show's design and direction. The costume designer researches designs, materials, and colours popular in the period, as well as details like how they might signify a character's social class. After completing research, costume designers use a combination of sketches, photos to create a visual depiction of each character's costumes throughout the production. You’ll present it to the director and other members of the design team for feedback. Whether purchasing, creating, or tailoring costume pieces, the costume designer is responsible for the costume team, budget, and time frame, this includes schedule fittings with actors, oversee alterations or repairs, as well as providing actors and stagehands with guidelines for costume care.

Prop Makers are responsible for making all the props used in a show and ensuring they suit the design of the production. These can range from crockery to weapons and even bigger set pieces. They work with the production team to ensure the props they are making look authentic and match the era of the production, i.e. Shakespearean, Victorian, Ancient Greece etc. A Prop Maker may also work in the stage management department. You will be responsible for your departments budget and expenditure, reporting back regularly to the director on all expenditure.

A Sound Designer is responsible for creating all sound and audio for a production. Depending on the requirements of the show, this can include sound effects, music, building atmosphere and how the performers are heard.

The Sound Designer will initially work with the Director and the rest of the creative team to ensure that the sound supports and enhances the production’s storytelling. The sound design may represent everything from specific noises created by actions on stage, sounds that convey the show’s setting and time, and music and soundscapes that build atmosphere, mood and the characters’ emotions. They will also consider the quality and clarity of speech and singing through performers’ microphones and audio levels.

The Lighting Designer is responsible for overseeing and implementing all aspects of the lighting design for a production. This position requires a blend of technical proficiency, creative vision, and strong leadership to ensure the lighting design enhances the overall performance and meets the artistic goals of a production.

Working with the production team, the hair & makeup department will design and then apply and makeup and hair requirements for the show.
This role is required to be present during final rehearsals and the performances if possible.