Current Vacancies
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HMDT Music seeks an experienced Stage Director to join its I Can Sing! Music Theatre team for its 2025-26 season. I Can Sing! is part of HMDT Music’s Saturday Programme, which enriches the lives of young people through high quality, exciting music making opportunities. I Can Sing! offers participants the opportunity to experience the joy of music theatre performance, with sessions in dance, drama/stagecraft and singing, as well as sessions that combine all these disciplines together. Repertoire includes HMDT Music’s own commissions as well as music from the Broadway tradition.
The Stage Director’s role is to stage and rehearse music theatre and/or children’s opera excerpts and scenes to classes of children ages 7-15, leading to end of term showings and a large-scale end of year performance with all the ICS! groups working together. The Director will be expected to collaborate with the HMDT Music’s Conductor/Creative Director and the I Can Sing! Choreographer and Pianists to plan the sessions for all groups. You should have experience of and enjoy working with, young people in a music theatre or opera context.
The role will involve working on Saturdays from 09:00 to 14:15 for 10 weeks per term for the 2025-26 Academic year from 20 September 2025 to 11 July 2026 and is renewable each academic year.
Applicants must have authorisation to work in the UK. If you feel you can excel in this role, please fill out the application using the button below. outlining your suitability for the post, along with your CV and covering letter (which should be addressed to Tertia Sefton-Green, CEO), References and Monitoring Form. Any enquiries should be addressed to: applications@hmdtmusic.org.uk.
Fee: Approximately £1,575.00 per term (on a self-employed basis).
Start date: 20 September 2025
Closing date for applications is 10:00 Tuesday 10 June
Online interviews will be held the week of 16 June
Shortlisted candidates may be required to do an audition with students of the I Can Sing! on 21 or 28 June.
The full I Can Sing! company are performing We'll Meet Again, a compilation of HMDT Music's commissions commemorating VE as part of its 20th Anniversary celebrations, on 17 May at 14:30 at our home in Bridge Academy (E2 8BA). If available, interested candidates would be welcome to attend the performance. There is no obligation for this, and attendance will not affect any part of the application process.
Fair recruitment
HMDT Music is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our clients, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. The organisation - in providing goods and/or services - is also committed against unlawful discrimination of customers or the public. We encourage applications from those who are currently under-represented in the arts industry, including D/deaf or disabled, and applicants who experience barriers due to ethnicity, gender identity and/or socio-economic background.
Please click here to read our full Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.
HMDT Music, twice winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Education and winner of the Excellence in Music Theatre Award is a leader in creating inspiring projects for young people, particularly those facing challenging experiences, through which it aims to enrich learning, broaden awareness of and help fight inequity and transform lives.
