Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Notice: Stage Manager
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
Gil Cates Theater (LORT B)
$1364 weekly minimum - Stage manager
$1159 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater (LORT D)
$1035 weekly minimum - Stage manager
$850 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
SEEKING
Equity stage managers for Geffen Playhouse's 2025-26 Season.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit your cover letter, resume and
references for consideration at:
www.geffenplayhouse.org/about/join-ourteam/
Deadline: 05/16/2025
SUBMIT TO
PREPARATION
Please prepare 1 monologue, no longer than 2 minutes, with one of our season selections in mind OR you can use the Sides which will be available on the morning of the audition.
Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
PERSONNEL
Phyllis Schuringa: Artistic Associate/Casting Director
OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production specific dates.
OTHER
www.geffenplayhouse.org
Equity鈥檚 contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
BREAKDOWN
Geffen Playhouse 2025-26 Season
AM I ROXIE?
Written & Performed by Roxana Ortega
Directed by Bernardo Cubr铆a
1st Rehearsal: August 5, 2025
Opening: September 11, 2025
Closing: October 5, 2025
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Gil Cates Theater
SYNOPSIS: In this fiercely funny one-woman tour-de-force based on her own life, writer/actor Roxana Ortega navigates the chaos of her mother鈥檚 mental decline with outrageous humor and unbreakable spirit. Playing everything from a mermaid-obsessed aunt to a prickly sherpa, Roxie takes us on a wild ride into an opera house, up a killer mountain, and through the doomscape of her own mind. Heartfelt and hilarious, Am I Roxie? explores duty, destiny, and how facing your darkest fears can reveal who you truly are.
LITTLEBOY/LITTLEMAN
Written by Rudi Goblen
Directed by Nancy Medina
1st Rehearsal: September 2, 2025
Opening: October 9, 2025
Closing: October 26, 2025 (but could extend until November 23, 2025)
Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater
SYNOPSIS: When Nicaraguan brothers F铆to and Bastian clash over their visions of the American Dream, their choices send them on a collision course with fate鈥攔isking not just their futures, but their bond. F铆to, a poet, is impulsive and ambitious, willing to take risks to get what he wants. Bastian, a telemarketer, is steady and principled, holding onto caution as a guide. Blending poetry, live music,and ritual, this electrifying tale of brotherhood and belonging pulses with rhythm and emotion, pulling us into a world where family is everything, but dreams come at a cost.
TABLE 17
Written by Douglas Lyons
Directed by Zhailon Levingston
Produced in Association with Jeffrey Richards & Mark Cortale
1st Rehearsal: October 7, 2025
Opening: November 13, 2025
Closing: December 7, 2025
Gil Cates Theater
SYNOPSIS: Jada and Dallas were once engaged 鈥� now, they鈥檙e meeting for dinner to untangle the past. Between cheeky waiters, old wounds, and the undeniable spark that still lingers between them, their 鈥渃asual鈥� reunion may ignite a bomb neither of them can defuse.
SYLVIA SYLVIA SYLVIA
Written by Beth Hyland
Directed by Jo Bonney
1st Rehearsal: January 6, 2026
Opening: February 12, 2026
Closing: March 8, 2026 (but could extend until March 15, 2026)
Gil Cates Theater
SYNOPSIS: Sally, a once-celebrated novelist grappling with writer's block and overshadowed by her husband Theo鈥檚 rising literary fame, seeks solace and inspiration in the iconic Boston apartment once inhabited by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. But when eerie encounters begin to blur the line between inspiration and madness, Sally is forced to question what鈥檚 real, what鈥檚 imagined, and what her art may truly cost her. A darkly funny, gripping world premiere from rising playwright Beth Hyland, this tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession, and our ghosts that refuse to be ignored.
"MASTER HAROLD"...AND THE BOYS
Written by Athol Fugard
Co-Directed by Emily Mann
Co-Directed by Tarell Alvin McCraney
1st Rehearsal: March 10, 2026
Opening: April 16, 2026
Closing: May 10, 2026
Gil Cates Theater
SYNOPSIS: Step into the charged atmosphere of a 1950s South African tea shop in Athol Fugard鈥檚 鈥淢aster Harold鈥濃nd the Boys, a gripping, deeply personal drama that unflinchingly confronts the realities of race, power, and betrayal. On a rainy afternoon, Hally, a white teenager, passes the time with Sam and Willie, two Black waiters who have helped raise him by filling the gaps of a broken home with warmth, wisdom, and laughter. But as the day unfolds, playful memories give way to painful truths, and a single moment threatens to shatter the fragile bond between them forever.
ANGRY, RAUCOUS, AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS
Written by Pearl Cleage
Directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Produced in Association with Black Rebirth Collective
This production is made possible, in part, by support from Cast Iron Entertainment.
1st Rehearsal: May 12, 2026
Opening: June 18, 2026
Closing: July 12, 2026
Gil Cates Theater
SYNOPSIS: Anna Campbell is a trailblazing actress flush with accolades but short on cash. After returning to the U.S. to stage a career-defining comeback, she collides with a new generation that challenges her past, her politics, and her place in the movement.
LORT Non-Rep Gil Cates Theater (LORT B) $1364 weekly minimum - Stage manager $1159 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater (LORT D) $1035 weekly minimum - Stage manager $850 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
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