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Job Description / Duties

The Blyth Festival is currently seeking a candidate to fill the seasonal position of Properties Assistant for the 2025 summer season. The contract will start May 12, 2025, and conclude September 21, 2025. The work of this position will take place both indoors and outdoors.

The Properties Assistant will report to the Head of Props and will be an integral member of the summer production team and changeover crew. The responsibilities include but are not limited to those normally associated with a similar position in other professional Canadian theatre companies. The responsibilities include:

• Working closely with the Head of Props and Designers to execute and manage designs within time and budget constraints
• Constructing, sourcing and acquiring props for all productions in the summer season
• Day to day use and maintenance of equipment and tools
• Participating in load-ins, fit ups, changeovers, and load outs for each production
• Ensuring that health and safety policies and procedures are met at Blyth Festival worksites
• Daily clean up and props maintenance activities in the props shop
• In the absence of the Head of Props, providing supervision to any other staff members who, from time to time, use the tools and props shop facilities
• Working in the paint shop to assist the scenic painter, as time and skills allow
• From time to time the Production Manager or Technical Director may assign additional duties as required. These duties will be scheduled with advance notice and incorporated into the regular work schedule

Qualifications / Required Skills

• Background and training in theatrical prop making
• Carpentry, sculpture, sewing and/or scenic painting skills an asset
• Problem solving and multi-tasking skills
• Team player
• Ability to lift 40 lbs
• Valid G Driver’s License an asset

Salary: $977/wk + 4% vacation pay

Contact Information

To apply for this position, send a cover letter and resume to careers@blythfestival.com by Feb 3, 2025. Please include in the subject line: Properties Assistant

Employer Profile

In its 50-year history, Blyth has premiered 156 new Canadian plays and entertained more than one million people from every province and territory in Canada across the United States and from every corner of the globe. Plays from the Blyth Festival have won Governor General’s Awards, been produced in 29 countries, and been translated into dozens of languages, including American Sign Language.

Blyth Festival productions take place on two stages in the village of Blyth, Ontario: the Margaret Stephens Stage at Blyth Memorial Hall, a municipally owned 379-seat indoor theatre, and the Harvest Stage – a permanent, purpose-built outdoor theatre, seating 348 people, surrounded by trees and playing to audiences under the Huron County skies.

In 2025, the Blyth Festival will produce a repertory season of four Canadian plays (2 world premieres) on the Margaret Stephens Stage, and one stand-alone production on the Harvest Stage.

The Blyth Festival production facilities include a 12 000 sq ft, fully equipped carpentry, paint, prop and wardrobe shop, as well as office space, storage and rehearsal studio.