Costume Coordinator for School Visit Program

Oregon Shakespeare Festival•Ashland, OR

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Costume Coordinator for the School Visit Program will be responsible for assembling base costumes, collaborating with actors on design for specific costume pieces, managing the program's budget, coordinating with the Costume Rentals Manager, purchasing costumes and materials, scheduling fittings, and ensuring all costumes are ready for actors by dress rehearsals. This role also involves completing costume adjustments, picking up costumes after teams return, cleaning costumes using OSF facilities, and delivering purchased and rented costumes. The position requires adherence to shop use protocols and involves costume craft making, sourcing, and budget management.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent.
Three years working in Costume Shop Theaters sewing and dressing professional actors.
Ability to meet Director and Actors’ vision and designs.
Demonstrate understanding of costume terms centering identities, body proportions, hair textures, skin tones.
Respond, adapt, and remain flexible while accepting changes in an iterative process.
Schedule and communicate collaboratively and effectively by being clear and punctual.
Alter, sew, clean, and repair costumes using industry standards.
Ability to move items weighing up to 40 pounds and to lift costumes weighing up to 20 pounds.
Ability to kneel, squat, bend, climb ladders and stairs.
Ability to sit or stand for 8 hours in a single day with or without modifications.
Daytime and evening hours, as needed to support the School Visit Program (SVP) during the months of August, September, and last two weeks in November.
Adhere to OSF shop use protocols.
Costume craft making skills, costume sourcing skills, balancing costume budget skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with dressing, fitting, styling actors.

Responsibilities

Meet with Director of Education and Engagement and School Visit Program (SVP) directors and actors.
Connect with Actors to assemble base costumes such as, black top, black pants, and sneakers.
Collaborate with Actors on the design for specific added costume pieces for various scenes.
Manage SVP budget of $2000.00.
Coordinate with the Costume Rentals Manager and follow rental protocols.
Pull and check out rental costumes.
Purchase costumes and materials.
Schedule fittings with Actors.
Provide all costumes to Actors by dress rehearsals.
Complete all costume adjustments by program load out.
Pick up all costumes when teams return to Ashland.
Collaborate with the Wardrobe and Hair Manager to use the OSF facility to clean costumes.
Deliver all purchased costumes to the Education department.
Clean, repair, restore, and deliver all rented costumes to Costume Rentals.