Northern Stage — FY27 Season Overhires

Overview
Northern Stage operates as a LORT D theater with a 240-seat house in White River Junction, Vermont, producing a mainstage season, an education season, a New Works festival, and four to six additional events annually. The organization's overhire calls are not artist residencies or commissions but skilled craft positions within a working repertory production calendar. The roles span scenic carpentry, props artisanal work, advance stitching, stitchery, wigs and wardrobe, electrics, spotlight operation, and related technical departments. Contract dates are fixed and sequential, reflecting the theater's production schedule rather than a curatorial theme. For creative practitioners whose primary practice is backstage craft—carpentry, costume construction, lighting, sound, or wardrobe—these positions represent embedded work within a regional theater's seasonal ecology. The contracts are short-term and role-specific, with start and end dates tied to individual productions. There is no fee to apply, and no prize or exhibition component; the offering is employment. The institutional scope is regional and production-oriented, not a juried exhibition or publication opportunity. The curatorial vision here is operational: Northern Stage assembles a technical corps to realize its season. Artists considering these roles should understand them as professional stagecraft engagements rather than creative calls for original work. The theater's stated commitment to diverse voices—including LGBTQ+, BIPOC, writers of color, disabled, and neurodivergent practitioners—appears in its season programming, but the overhire listings themselves are trade positions. Applicants are evaluated on demonstrated technical proficiency and availability within the specified contract windows.