Company of Others is looking for a Costume Assistant for our upcoming production of Grief Floats in August 2025, at King Edward’s Bay. This is a paid opportunity to work alongside and assist our Costume Designer.
About Grief Floats:
Grief Floats is a protest, an honouring, a remembering. It’s a long-term project that offers ways of reconnecting the mind and body during times of grief through workshops, discussions, and performances. It’s a gentle protest, an act of remembrance, and an offer of communal reflection set against the breathtaking backdrop of the North Sea.
The costumes for Grief Floats echo the way the sea reclaims all, breaking us down to our core components and allowing space for new life to take hold. The performers become monuments out at sea, in various stages of decay and grief, some still with their outer shells, others chipped away to reveal their core. The costumes sparkle in the sunlight, eroded by the waves.
Rehearsals: 2 days between 11th–22nd August 2025
Performances: 25th–31st August 2025
Duties include:
– Report directly to the Costume Designer.
– Safely transporting costumes to and from the production area\show area. Driving and access to own transport is a must.
– Assisting the Costume Designer with care of costumes including drying, cleaning and ironing.
– Swiftly report any issues with costuming as the production continues over show week.
– Small costume repairs as needed following and/or between performances such as attaching sequins.
– Availability to take on larger repairs as needed following daily performances.
– Assisting with dressing dancers and managing costumes following performances.
– Flexibility with timing due to nature of the show and early/later performances.
– Any other duties to ensure that costuming is as streamlined as possible as well as related duties in support of the wider team.
If you have interest and experience in costume design and making, and can be available for the dates above, we’d love to hear from you.
Deadline: 21st July 2025
To express your interest, send your CV to community@companyofothers.org.uk or call us on 0191 276 1524.