Designer/Maker - Cloudy - Running Dog Theatre

Designer/Maker - Cloudy - Running Dog Theatre

Running Dog Theatre CIC Closing date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026

Artform: Theatre
Role: Creative
Contract: Temporary
South West
  • Part time
  • £30k-£40k

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Job Summary

Cloudy is a new Early Years show exploring clouds, the weather & emotional regulation. Live music, integrated tech & highly visual design elements will create a complete, tailored, sensory experience. We’re looking for a brilliant Designer/Maker to help us bring our new show Cloudy to life!

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Designer/Maker to join us for the making process of our new EY show Cloudy.

You'll collaborate with our lead project artist Emma Baskeyfield in the design concept and then be responsible for the delivery of all visual elements of the project.
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It's a beautiful day by the coast.
The sky is blue & there's not a cloud in the sky…
oh no wait, what's that?
A cloud?
Nevermind.

Join us for a spot of cloud spotting with your little one.

Explore, interact & play through the changing weather,
or find a comfy spot to relax and watch the clouds float by.

Because if we know anything about living by the sea,
it's that the weather can change any moment.

Cloudy will be a small/mid-scale touring show suitable for both studio and community spaces exploring the weather, emotional regulation & environmental themes. Live music, key word signing, integrated AV & LX plus highly visual design elements shaped for Early Years audiences will create a complete , tailored, sensory experience.

Cloudy is a new Early Years show exploring clouds, the weather & emotional regulation. Live music, key word signing, integrated AV & LX plus highly visual design elements will create a complete, tailored, sensory experience.

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Dates
30th October - Application Deadline
2nd November August - Applicants Invited to Interview
W/c 9th November - Interview Days
Nov/Dec '26 - Dates TBC on applicant availability - Design Development Week 1
18th - 22nd January '27; Bath - Design Development Week 2
22nd - 26th March; Ilfracombe - Design Development Week 3

Fee
Weekly rates of £700 p/week, £200 day rates.
3 weeks + Paid Interview Day
Total Fee: £2300
(Additional 2 weeks & £1400 allocated to Set Construction Fabricator)

Job Requirements

We're looking for an experienced Designer with experience in Early Years/sensory work. The design ethos for the show will be to prioritise a design aesthetic that is highly tactile for our EY audiences so we're looking for a designer who can help us create beautiful durable and safe design elements! We expect you might work on creating prop & costume elements for the show as well as set cladding.

We are particularly excited by exploring materiality whilst making the show and it's ability to transform from one thing to another. We imagine therefore we might be looking to work with a Designer with experience of textiles but we're also open to artists who primarily work in other material mediums.

The finished production of Cloudy will include Audio visuals elements, including integrated music, lights and projection so experience integrating design element alongside technical elements would be great.

Job Responsibilities

We're looking for a collaborative Designer who is happy to work closely in partnership with our lead artist. The creation process for the show is going to be very design/visuals led so the designer will often be working in the room alongside other project creatives. We want someone whose brilliant creative judgement we can trust during the creation of Cloudy, but who knows when their role is best served by facilitating the creativity of others in the room.

Part of the project activity includes the design & development of a universal/adaptable Early Years set so we're particularly interested in working with a creative who is curious and happy to explore more broadly with us what Early Years work what can or should look like and ways in which design elements can help support that.

We also have budget allocated for a Set Construction Fabricator responsible for the structural construction of the set that we'll be hiring separately, but if this is also in your skillset let us know.

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Job Overview

  • Job Title: Designer/Maker - Cloudy - Running Dog Theatre
  • Salary: £30k-£40k
  • Hours: Part time
  • Artform: Theatre
  • Role: Creative
  • Contract: Temporary
  • Closing date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026
  • Location:
    South West

How to Apply

We prioritise a person-centred approach to hiring processes. For Creative roles on projects we invite each applicant who reaches the interview stage to spend several hours with the creative team so they’re able to tell us more about themselves, share some of their working practices and get to know the project a bit better.

To reflect this and in an attempt to offset the financial barriers that can prevent applicants attending unpaid interviews we’ll pay each interviewing applicant a £200 day rate and cover their travel expenses.

Please send us :
A CV
A 3 minute Cover video/2 page covering letter telling us a little bit about yourself, how you like to work and your favourite weather fact!
Your availability in November & December incl w/c 9th November
Your responses to the below Equalities Monitoring Form

Please email applications or any questions to [email protected] with the email subject:

[YOUR NAME] Cloudy Designer Callout

Deadline to Apply: Midnight 20th October