Stage Management
Posted 3 days agoApprentice Stage Manager
A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet
Bard on the Beach
Vancouver, British Columbia
Application Deadline:11/16/2026
Apply:[email protected]
Accepting Non-Local Artists:No
Agreement or Engagement Policy:CTA
Company Category:A
First Prep Date:4/12/2027
First Rehearsal Date:4/19/2027
Anticipated Closing Date:9/19/2027
Production DetailsThe Apprentice Stage Manager will work with the BMO Mainstage stage management team on two productions in rep:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The ‘70s Musical directed by Daryl Cloran
and
Romeo and Juliet directed by Moya O’Connell
Production Dates:
SM Prep week: April 12 – 18, 2027
Rehearsals: April 19 – June 27, 2027
Show run: June 28 – Sept 19, 2027
Possible extension until: Sept 26, 2027
Requirements and Application InstructionsBard on the Beach is now accepting applications for an Apprentice Stage Manager for Bard on the Beach's 2027 Season on the BMO Mainstage in Vancouver's Sen?ákw/Vanier Park. This is a learning and development opportunity at Bard on the Beach for an emerging stage manager.
Job Tasks and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Production Stage Manager, Production Director, and Artistic Company Manager, the Apprentice Stage Manager will aid the stage management team and support the productions as needed. Tasks may include, but are not limited to:
• Attend all prep meetings, production meetings, rehearsals, tech rehearsals, and performances
• Aid in the preparation, organization, and maintenance of the rehearsal hall, backstage and stage
• Track blocking, scenic changes, costumes and/or props
• Coordinate and communicate with various departments
• Coordinate backstage traffic
• Create and maintain thorough detailed paperwork
• Assist in costume changes and maintaining props throughout the run
• Assist the Stage Manager in monitoring safety and seeing that all necessary precautions are taken to ensure that safe and clean conditions exist both on stage and backstage as well as in rehearsal halls.
Job Requirements
Ideal candidates should:
• have experience working in stage management, whether as Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, or Apprentice Stage Manager, on any scale professional or non-professional productions.
• be self-motivated
• be a strong collaborator
• have excellent communication skills
• be competent in MS Word and Excel and be familiar with working with shared documents
• be adaptable and able to adjust to unexpected change
• be a strong problem solver
• though not a requirement, experience in festival theatre, outdoor theatre, large scale productions, and Shakespeare productions is an asset.
Remuneration
$22.50/hr. Apprentice Stage Mangers are engaged as employees and entitled to vacation pay and overtime payments made in accordance with BC Employment Standards.
To Apply:
Please email a cover letter and resume (in PDF format) with the subject line: Apprentice SM Application - [FULL NAME] to Artistic Company Manager, Susan Miyagishima, at [email protected]. Select candidates will be contacted to set up an interview.
Deadline to submit: November 16th, 2026
Accessibility InformationAccess and inclusion are very important to us. Our audition venue and rehearsal spaces are physically accessible. Our performance venue is generally accessible, but the backstage areas may pose some physical barriers for some performers. We are willing to work with all those working at Bard to ensure accessibility to all our spaces.
Ethnocultural MandateBard is committed to the values of equality, diversity and inclusion. It is our deeply-held belief that all three must be embedded in everything we do. We are a Shakespeare Festival whose performance venue is located on Sen̓áḵw/Vanier Park, the site of a vibrant Coast Salish village which was the home of Indigenous nations for thousands of years. We take our responsibility as occupants of this space seriously.
At Bard we welcome people of all races, religions, countries of origin, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities and disabilities. In our office and work spaces, gathering places, stage, rehearsal halls and backstages, we are working towards addressing and combatting racism (including but not limited to anti-Indigeneity, anti-blackness, and anti-Asianess), religious discrimination, xenophobia, homophobia and transphobia, sexism and misogyny, and ableism. The responsibility to create and maintain this inclusive, accessible and anti-oppressive environment is shared by all Bard company members, regardless of seniority, job title or relationship to the company.
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