• Job Description

  Req#: WARDR001298

  Organizational Background

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) was founded in 1935 in Ashland, OR, and has grown from a three-day festival of two plays to a nationally renowned theatre arts organization that presents a rotating repertory season of up to 10 plays and musicals, including illuminating interpretations of Shakespeare, other enduring classics, and new works. OSF productions have been presented on Broadway, internationally, and at regional, community, and high school theatres across the country. OSF received the 1983 Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and is one of the largest nonprofit theatres in the nation with three stages, including an outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre.

  Statement of Purpose

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival creates world-class theatre, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

  Company Values

  • We are committed to working toward inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, creating a space of belonging for all audiences and employees—through concrete actions and systemic improvements.
  • We nurture and support our artists, attracting and retaining diverse, innovative talent across the organization.
  • We believe in the transformational power of collaborative artmaking and performance.
  • We recognize the importance of responsible stewardship of resources and sustainable business, financial, and environmental practices.
  • We serve the public good and engage with and respect our community of artists, audiences, staff, local citizens, patrons, donors, and the greater theatre community worldwide.

  Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Attends Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Access (IDEA) sexual harassment, and any other anti-bias training
  and workshops as scheduled by the institution.

  2. Exemplify respect and inclusion by:

  a. Demonstrating and creating an environment where each employee is supported.
  b. Maintaining a safe working environment.
  c. Recognizing micro-aggressions and interrupting behaviors that hinder OSF’s diversity and
  inclusion efforts.
  d. Operationalizing IDEA concepts into department’s systems, processes, and problem-solving
  techniques.
  e. Collaborating with other managers to enforce safety policies and keeping up to date with
  required safety training.

  3. Leads Wardrobe employees. Duties include:

  a. Supervise work schedules with Wardrobe and Hair Manager.
  b. Ensure wardrobe personnel understand and adhere to the company handbook, collective
  bargaining agreement, AEA (Actors Equity Association) guidelines, production department
  guidelines, and OSF safety procedures.
  c. Contribute to staff performance evaluations, advancement, and disciplinary conversations.

  4. Ensures overall function and maintenance of all costumes as designed by the costume designer, during the
  build process and throughout the run.

  a. Collaborates with Costume Managers, Wig and Hair Supervisor, and Stage Management regarding
  Costume Designs and Fitting schedules.
  b. Ensures design integrity and quality control of all costumes throughout the season as approved by
  the costume designer.
  c. Leads Wardrobe crew assigned to on-stage, technical, dress rehearsals, and previews.
  d. Organizes run crew documentation and show reports, prioritizing time sensitive details.

  5. Organizes and prepares costumes for understudies and replacement performers by:

  a. Pulling items from stock, purchasing and communicating with the Wardrobe and Hair Manager
  who will receive designer approval.
  b. Coordinates the fitting schedule with crew and Stage Management.

  6. Collaborates with Wardrobe and Hair Manager on wardrobe supply inventory and tool servicing, annually.

  7. Organizes and supports staff working on long-term or skill-building sewing projects.

  8. Maintain organization and sanitation of wardrobe spaces.

  9. Arrange transportation of costumes between shop, rehearsal spaces, rentals and wardrobe and hair
  spaces, as needed.

  10. Maintains fiscal responsibility meeting deadlines by tracking expenses, documenting vendors, and
  reconciling credit card transactions.

  11. Attends all company and department meetings and required trainings.

  Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

  12. Respond to after-hours emergencies and participate in OSF emergency response teams; serve as backup
  understudy for wardrobe run crew tracks, in an emergency.

  13. May cover for Wig and Hair Supervisor, as needed.

  14. Picks up and delivers supplies between Ashland and Talent, as needed.

  15. Guides FAIR (Fellow, Apprentice, Intern, Residency) participants and volunteers, as needed.

  16. Supports Marketing, Engagement, and Development efforts.

  17. Engages with OSF patrons.

  18. Other duties as assigned by the Wardrobe and Hair Manager.

  Supervision Received: Wardrobe and Hair Manager
  Supervision Exercised: Direct reports include Wardrobe employees

  Qualifications/Skills:

  • REQUIRED:
    Education: High School Graduate or equivalent.

  
  Work Experience: Three years professional theatrical wardrobe run crew experience and leadership.

  PREFERRED:

  • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
  • Knowledge of costume periods, safe work practices, and understanding repertory calendars.
  • Thorough knowledge using computer software, including Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, SharePoint, and
    other cloud-based information sharing systems.
  • Proficient in quick-change choreography, building solutions.
  • Demonstrate initiative and tenacity in short-term and long-term planning.
  • Ability to collaborate and behave in a productive manner with colleagues and staff.
  • Ability to adapt and flex to operational changes and new procedures.
  • Expertise in organization, time management, and decision making.
  • Excellent Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Access analysis and inclusive behavior.
  • Able to identify and dismantle work systems that uphold and promote systems that center whiteness; to
    re-envision and implement new systems that account for equity and promote inclusion in all areas of work.
  • Ability to approach relationships with colleagues and staff, particularly those belonging to
    underrepresented or historically marginalized groups, with an understanding that identity informs every
    individual’s human experience in a way that may differ from their own personal experience.
  • Ability to communicate about body proportions, hair textures and styling, skin tones and identities using
    respectful and equitable language.

  
  Physical Ability: Lift and move wigs and equipment weighing up to 30 pounds, climb stairs repeatedly, kneel, squat,
  and bend. Sit and stand for eight hours or more.

  Special Hours Requirements: Must be able to pass a background check. Irregular work schedule including evenings
  and weekends, generally a 6-day week. Attend technical and dress rehearsals.

• About the company

  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1935 by Angus L.

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