Denver Center for the Performing Arts LORT & TYA 2024-25 SeasonDenver Center for the Performing Arts LORT & TYA 2024-25 Season - Stage manager submissions
Denver Center for the Performing Arts | Denver, CO
Notice: Stage Manager
LORT Non-Rep / TYA
$1312 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Stage manager - The Wolf
$1114 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Assistant stage manager - The Wolf
$1211 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Stage manager - The Kilstrom
$1017 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Assistant stage manager - The Kilstrom
$995 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Stage manager - The Singleton
$817 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Assistant stage manager - The Singleton
DCPA Theatre Company pays above LORT B minimums across all its stages.
$1325 weekly minimum (TYA) - Stage manager
$1125 weekly minimum (TYA) - Assistant stage manager
All Equity stage managerial positions for Denver Center for the Performing Arts' LORT & TYA 2024-25 Season are currently filled.
Please submit for future consideration.
Please submit for future consideration.
Deadline: 04/15/2024
DCPA Theatre Company
Production Stage Manager
1101 13th Street
Denver, CO 80204
Grady Soapes (he/him), CSA- DCPA Director of Casting
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates. OTHER
denvercenter.org/casting
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Denver Center for the Performing Arts 2024-25 Season
HAMLET
Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: Chris Coleman
LORT B Contract
The Wolf Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: August 9th, 2024
FIRST PREVIEW: September 13th, 2024
OPENING: September 20th, 2024
CLOSING: October 6th, 2024
SYNOPSIS: Arguably one of the greatest plays in the Western canon, Hamlet is a psychological revenge thriller, political epic, and family saga that’s both grand and deeply human. Packed with unforgettable characters and famous lines, Artistic Director Chris Coleman will helm the DCPA’s iconic season opener. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home after his father’s death, he finds his mother remarried to his uncle and his father’s spine-chilling apparition roaming the palace grounds. Commanded by his father’s ghost to avenge his brutal murder, Hamlet’s burden to reclaim the reins of the kingdom becomes a perilous journey through the psyche. Bound by duty yet tormented by the gravity of his mission, every scheme and equivocation will test his resolve, disrupt his relationship with the fair Ophelia, and pose the tragic dilemma of whether “to be, or not to be.” Join us for one of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies as you’ve never seen it before, executed with the fierce attention to detail that you’ve come to expect from the Denver Center Theatre Company.
**This production will be understudied**
ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S WE ARE IN A PLAY!
Adapted from Elephant & Piggie books by Mo Willems
Book & Lyrics: Mo Willems
Music: Deborah Wicks La Puma
Director: Allison Watrous
Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA Contract)
The Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: September 24th, 2024
FIRST PREVIEW: October 18th, 2024
OPENING: October 23rd, 2024
CLOSING: December 22nd, 2024
SYNOPSIS: Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play! is a joyful musical comedy based on six of the books in the popular, Geisel Award-winning Elephant & Piggie children's book series by Mo Willems. The Elephant & Piggie book series debuted in 2007. The books are written in comic book-style, with conversations appearing in letter bubbles above the characters' heads. The books often address issues of friendship. Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play! was commissioned in 2012 by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and had a workshop at the theatre prior to the full production. Mo Willems is a number-one New York Times bestselling author and illustrator and has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions. His debut, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, was inducted into the Indies Choice Picture Book Hall of Fame in 2009. Other favorites include the Knuffle Bunny books; Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed and City Dog, Country Frog, illustrated by Jon J Muth.
I’M NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER
Playwright: Isaac Gómez
Director: Laura Alcala Baker
LORT C Contract
The Kilstrom Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: August 30th, 2024
FIRST PREVIEW: September 27th, 2024
OPENING: October 4th, 2024
CLOSING: November 3rd, 2024
SYNOPSIS: This vibrant and poignant adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez’s New York Times Bestseller follows Júlia, a Chicago high schooler who is definitely not your perfect Mexican daughter. That’s her older sister Olga’s role. But everything in Júlia’s life weighs heavier after Olga dies in a tragic accident, leaving Júlia to manage her family’s grief and unravel the secret truth — that her sister may not have been so perfect after all. As she struggles with the all-too-real challenges of coming of age in Chicago and the sense that she’s failing to live up to her family’s expectations, Júlia barely clings onto her dream of becoming a writer and is left questioning what she really knows about anything. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a love story to young Chicanas who, in trying to find the truth about the people and the world around them, end up finding themselves.
**This production will not be understudied**
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Playwright: Charles Dickens, Adapted by Richard Hellesen
Director: Anthony Powell
LORT B Contract
The Wolf Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: November 1st, 2024
FIRST PREVIEW: November 22nd, 2024
OPENING: November 29th, 2024
CLOSING: December 29th, 2024
SYNOPSIS: Essential to the holiday season in Denver, A Christmas Carol is a joyous and opulent musical adaptation for the whole family that traces money-hoarding curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge’s triumphant overnight journey to redemption. Based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, the DCPA Theatre Company’s production is “a splendidly festive tradition” (BroadwayWorld) that illuminates the meaning of the holiday season in a way that has resonated for generations.
**This production will be understudied**
THE RESERVOIR - (World Premiere)
In partnership with Alliance Theatre and Geffen Playhouse
Playwright: Jake Brasch
Director: Shelley Butler
LORT D Contract
The Singleton Theatre
DCPA DATES:
FIRST REHEARSAL: December 19th, 2024
FIRST PREVIEW: January 17th, 2025
OPENING: January 24th, 2025
CLOSING: March 9th, 2025
ALLIANCE THEATRE DATES:
FIRST REHEARSAL: March 25th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: April 2nd, 2025
OPENING: April 9th, 2025
CLOSING: May 4th, 2025
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE DATES:
FIRST REHEARSAL: Date pending
FIRST PREVIEW: June 18th, 2025
OPENING: June 26th, 2025
CLOSING: July 20th, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Josh's life is a mess. He’s come home to Denver from NYU to get his life together but can ’t manage to stay sober. Struggling with fogginess, memory loss, shame, and regret, he finds unlikely allies in his four loveable grandparents. Desperate for comradery, Josh resolves to bring his grandparents along with him on the road to recovery. He pressures them into playing memory games. He drags them to Jazzercise class. He forces them to eat spinach by the handful. Eventually, he slams up against the limits of his quest. When he can no longer help his grandparents, they begin to help him.
**This production will not be understudied**
THE SUFFRAGETTE’S MURDER (World Premiere)
Playwright: Sandy Rustin
Director: Margot Bordelon
LORT C Contract
The Kilstrom Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: January 10th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: February 7th, 2025
OPENING: February 14th, 2025
CLOSING: March 9th, 2025
SYNOPSIS: On the morning of July 5, 1857, an eclectic group of tenants bustle about their Manhattan boarding house, arranging the final details of a clever scheme they hope to pull off in the name of the budding women’s suffrage movement. As they prepare to host an important secret gathering, they receive an unexpected visit from a constable. One of the tenants has been murdered. The odd bunch must then band together in an elaborate ruse to throw the constable off their scent. His investigation, however, reveals much more than murder motives and rabble-rousing. It becomes an examination of early American suffrage movements, the struggle to define “a woman’s place,” and the political systems that have historically sought to snuff out feminist voices.
**This production will not be understudied**
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Music & Lyrics: Alan Menken
Book: Howard Ashman
Director: Chris Coleman
Choreographer: Rickey Tripp
Music Director: Angela Steiner
LORT B Contract
Wolf Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: March 14th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: April 11th, 2025
OPENING: April 18th, 2025
CLOSING: May 18th, 2025
SYNOPSIS: The meek, yet nurturing, Seymour Krelborn is perennially down on his luck. Working at a flower shop on Skid Row, he is constantly berated by his boss, Mr. Mushnik. He’s infatuated with his co-worker Audrey, but she is caught in a toxic relationship with a sadistic dentist. One day, Seymour chances upon a strange and mysterious new plant cutting, which he nurses back to health. When he discovers the flytrap’s appetite for human blood, it thrives and begins to sing for its supper. But when Audrey II’s bloodlust becomes insatiable, Seymour must take a stand to prevent the carnivorous plant from world domination. Unforgettable musical numbers, including the title track, “Skid Row,” and “Suddenly, Seymour,” will provide massive dose of nostalgia for theatre-lovers. For newcomers to musical comedies, Little Shop of Horrors provides a delicious introduction to the joyful, larger-than-life world of Broadway.
**This production will be understudied**
THE HOT WING KING
Playwright: Katori Hall
Director: Timthy Douglas
LORT C Contract
The Kilstrom Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: March 28th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: April 25th, 2025
OPENING: May 2nd, 2025
CLOSING: May 25th, 2025
SYNOPSIS: On the eve of the annual “Hot Wang Festival” in Memphis, Tennessee, Cordell Crutchfield thinks he has finally found a recipe that will land him the coveted title of Hot Wing King. He has assembled a raucous team of sous chefs, comprised of his beau Dwayne and close friends Big Charles and Isom. The four-man team is cooking with plenty of spice and innuendo on prep night until a family emergency thrusts Dwayne’s troubled nephew into the mix. Tensions boil over into heated arguments — and one team member starts messing with Cordell’s secret sauce. With the crown, prize money, and their relationship on the line, Cordell and Dwayne are forced to reckon with what it means to be a Black man, a father figure, and part of a loving family. Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize, The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall is a boisterous, in-your-face dramedy that is guaranteed to leave you salivating for a second helping.
NOTE: All should have whip-smart, sass-influenced, and biting – well-intended- senses of humor. All characters are Black and male-presenting. CORDELL, ISOM, DWAYNE & BIG CHARLES all identify as Gay, while EVERETT & TJ identify as Straight.
**This production will not be understudied**
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