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Description
Magic Mike Live is seeking a Lead Dresser for its London production.
Purpose of Job
Dressers are responsible for setting costumes ready for the performance, assisting cast members with costume changes and maintaining and repairing costumes.
Person Specification
- Knowledge of costume construction and an ability to spot future breakages.
- The ability to iron and wash clothes and clean shoes.
- The ability to work under minimum supervision and adapt work in accordance with performance requirements.
- The ability to learn and carry out multiple dressing plots.
- The ability to work as part of a large team.
- The ability to build respectful rapport with actors and work with other theatre staff.
- Good communication skills.
- A high level of self-motivation.
Desirable
- Experience of dressing for live performance/theatre production.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist the actors in performances with their costumes, including quick changes.
- Set out every part of each costume including accessories in the dressing rooms and other parts of the Theatre where costume changes are to occur.
- Attend technical, dress, and costume understudy rehearsals for the purpose of observing and learning dressing tracks and to be available to the actor/actors allocated to them on or off stage as appropriate.
- Dress male and female actors as allocated by the Head of Wardrobe before the performance.
- Recognise where maintenance work needs to be carried out on a costume and return it to the Wardrobe department with a note of the maintenance requirements.
- Help actors to change at the end of performance and to hang up their costumes, returning appropriate costumes and laundry to the Wardrobe.
- Ensure that work materials and all costumes and dressing rooms in which they work are kept in a tidy and secure manner.
To apply, please send a CV and a short covering letter (no more than one page) outlining your suitability for the role to [email protected] by noon 20th June (quoting Lead Dresser in the subject line).