Minimum Education and Experience
MFA in Costume Technology/Production or equivalent professional experience.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Must have proficiency in historical and contemporary draping and flat-patterning techniques, tailoring, crafts, and fabric dyeing. Preference given to candidates with professional experience.
Overview
Housed in one of the leading public research universities on the East Coast, The Department of Theater at Mason Gross School of the Arts provides students with a well-rounded, rigorous, and inspiring program for those serious about pursuing a career as a theater professional. We are committed to developing theater artists of the highest caliber who are prepared to join the profession as the next generation of practitioners and innovators. Our department includes approximately 175 undergraduate students and 4 graduate students with a total faculty of 50 (16 full-time) and production and administrative staff of 17. The Theater Department offers eight concentrations in the BFA programs of Acting, Design, Dramaturgy and Production, a BA in Theater Arts (major and minor).
Mason Gross School of the Arts, a vibrant community of artists and scholars with academic programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art & design, is committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its roughly 1100 students, of whom slightly more than half are students of color, reflect the diversity of New Jersey, the fourth most diverse state in the nation. The school is housed within Rutgers–New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The nation’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia.
Additional information is available at the school website: https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu
