Adult Costume Designer for Nemo! Runs November 2024

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BYT is looking for dedicated individuals to add to our pool of Costume Designers and to design Nemo for our Fall Season. Nemo is scheduled to run in November.

We can begin to train immediately, but we are really looking for a designer who would be willing to take on a show after learning for a season.

For Nemo specifically, start date would be late September and you could start pulling costume on 9/30. Costume parade is scheduled for 11/5 with Tech week 11/12-11/14. Performances are 11/15-11/17 and 11/23-11/24.

Volunteers who can sew well on machine and/or by hand are an asset, especially if you are looking for an organization with which you will make a long-term, regular commitment.

If you are interested in sewing and want to design costumes and alter, and repair costumes for youth in plays, please send me an email. **To be clear, we avoid building costumes from scratch.** We pull from stock and alter them to fit the actor, so there will not be many opportunities to create entire costumes by hand. Some of our actors have sensory support needs, but we will communicate those ahead of time. We are an inclusive theatre where everyone gets a part so our casts are very diverse.

Our established designers will train and mentor upcoming Costume Designers in conjunction with Support provided by the Costume Shop Manager and related staff. Costume Designers typically spend 50-100 hours per show designing, fitting, altering, mending, cleaning, and organizing costumes, all under the creative direction of the show's director and in partnership with the rest of the creative design team. As we are a community theatre, a stipend is available for $15 per costume/actor with a minimum of $450 and a maximum of $750 through our BYT Foundation.

We costume 11 shows a year, making this one of our areas of greatest need. Costuming is very important to our program; costumes help the participants find their characters and perform with self-confidence--and, of course, dressing up is just plain fun!