Costume Designer
Paper Hearts Omnibus Theatre, Lambeth1 to 6 Dec 6 performances about 65 hours
£700
Emerging designers encouraged
4 week design period plus production week
The production
An immersive piece for forty people at a time, moving through three rooms of a house where a wedding is being cancelled.
Audience moves between three playing spaces. Every technical department needs to plan for sightlines from all angles and for cueing without a fixed prompt desk.
Three weeks, including two full site days at the venue.
What you will actually be doing
- Design a wedding day wardrobe for seven performers
- Run fittings and manage alterations
- Plan for close audience proximity and repeated wear
Required
- A portfolio of previous costume work
- Available for two site days
Useful, not essential
- Immersive or site specific experience
- Making and alteration skills
The commitment
Design period
2 to 22 Nov
Fittings
16 & 23 Nov
Site days
28 & 29 Nov
Performances
1 to 6 Dec
6 performances
Compensation, in full
- Design fee
- £550
- Production week
- £150
- Costume budget
- £800, held by the company
- Estimated commitment
- 65 hours
Travel reimbursed up to £60.
Venue technical information
Omnibus Theatre · 90 seats · Lambeth
- Lighting desk
- ETC Gio @5
- Sound desk
- Allen & Heath SQ-5
- Speakers
- 6x RCF with subwoofer
- Microphones
- 6x radio mics, 2x boundary
- Projector
- Optoma laser, rear mounted
- Rig
- House rig with movers on upstage bar
- Technical contact
- Head of production, weekdays