Resident Costume Designer and Shop Manager

The Kinkaid School is seeking an energetic, passionate, and experienced theatre professional to serve as Resident Costume Designer and Shop Manager. Reporting to the Director of Visual and Performing Arts, the Resident Costume Designer and Shop Manager is responsible for all aspects of costume design and production for the program.

The Kinkaid School is a co-educational non-sectarian day school enrolling over 1,400 students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Located on a sixty-five-acre campus in the heart of Houston, Texas, the School offers a thriving intellectual community in the midst of a vibrant, urban, diverse culture. The Visual and Performing Arts program benefits from outstanding resources including a 773-seat auditorium, a black box theatre, a dance studio, costume and scene shops and many classrooms and rehearsal spaces. Talented students and generous production budgets allow the School to mount an ambitious season of plays, musicals, dance performances, and concerts each year. The Theatre and Dance programs currently mount thirteen productions each academic year (2 major musicals, 3 major plays, 2 Theatre for Young Audiences productions, 2 musical theatre reviews, an evening of student-directed one-acts, and 3 dance concerts). The full-time Theatre staff includes three acting teachers, two technical theatre directors, a technical theatre assistant, a Resident Costume Designer and Shop Manager, and a costume assistant.

• Costume design 6 fully realized productions each year: 2 musicals, 1 play, 1 dance concert, 1 TYA play, and the student directing class one-act plays
• Supervise the costume design of 3 smaller productions each year, 1 TYA play, 1 choreography class dance concert, 1 middle school play
• Manage the workload for all shows including built, rented, pulled, shopped, and borrowed costumes. 
• Manage the production, wardrobe run, strike, cleaning, and returns for each production
• Manage all measurements and fittings
• Hire and manage all part-time and contract employees including drapers, first hands, stitchers, wigs artists, crafts artist, run crew, student labor, and volunteers
• Manage all costume production budgets
• Maintain costume storage organization, costume shop supplies, and shop organization 
• Daily hours may be flexible based on performance schedule. Nights and weekends are expected during tech and performance weeks