Call-Out: Costume Designer, The Coffee Shop Musical
About the role
leo&hyde are a Manchester-based musical theatre company. We're a small and friendly team, who get excitable about new music, theatre and technology. The Coffee Shop Musical is a site-specific musical, set in and about an independent coffee shop - but told from the perspective of AI narrators. We've had two weeks of enthusiastically received performances in Manchester, and are looking for a costume designer to help us upgrade some of the costumes in the show.
About the costumes
The characters mostly wear normal everyday costumes that we've already sourced - but half-way through there's a shift where the characters become online personas: Tinder profiles, trolls, cats - and the Spirit of Procrastination itself.
In performances so far, we've used morph suits (as you can see here), which are entertaining and simple. However, we're looking for a designer to concoct an entertaining design that is more original - it should be quicker and easier to put on than a morph suit (there are very tight costume changes), but even more fun, original and true to the post-internet / sci-fi nature of the show.
Practicalities
- Times: Flexible, but mainly May 2023
- Fee: £500
- Budget available: £500
- In future runs, there may be opportunities to further develop the costumes on a larger budget
To apply
Please submit the following to lucy@leoandhyde.com with the subject "l&h // Coffee Shop Musical // Costume Designer":
- CV detailing relevant experience and any images of previous work
- Cover letter (max 1 page), outlining your interest
- A link to the best costume of 2022
- A note on where you're currently based
Deadline: Thursday 13th April 2023. Interviews w/c 17th April. Zoom interviews will be held the following week.