JOB POSTING: APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER
Bard 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 Sen̓ákw/Vanier Park. This is a learning and development opportunity at Bard on the Beach for an emerging stage manager.
The 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 and Romeo and Juliet.
2027 Production Dates
Stage Manager Prep Week: April 12-18
Rehearsals: April 19-June 27
2027 Show Run: June 28-September 19, 2027 (possible extension until September 26, 2027)
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 Microsoft 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
Monday, November 16th, 2026 at 11:59pm
ETHNOCULTURAL MANDATE
Bard 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.
ABOUT BARD ON THE BEACH
Bard on the Beach is Western Canada’s largest not-for-profit, professional Shakespeare Festival.
Presented in a magnificent setting on the waterfront in Vancouver’s Sen̓ákw/Vanier Park, the
Festival offers Shakespeare plays, related dramas, and several special events in two
performance tents form June through September.
Visit the Bard on the Beach website for more information: www.bardonthebeach.org
Bard on the Beach Theatre Society operates on the ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəyəm
(Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.