Denver Center for the Performing Arts LORT & TYA 2025-26 Season - Stage manager submissions
Denver Center for the Performing Arts | Denver, CO
Notice: Stage Manager
Grady Soapes (he/him), CSA - Artistic
Producer & Director of Casting
See breakdown for production specific dates.
OTHER
Equity’s 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.
LORT Non-Rep / TYA
$1364 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Stage manager
$1159 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Assistant stage manager
$1259 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Stage manager
$1058 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Assistant stage manager
$1035 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Stage manager
$850 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Assistant stage manager
All standard LORT stages are paid at least
LORT B minimum.
$1378 weekly minimum (TYA) - Stage manager
$1171 weekly minimum (TYA) - Assistant stage manager
All Equity stage managerial positions for Denver Center for the Performing Arts' LORT & TYA 2025-26 Seasons have been filled.
Please submit for future consideration.
Please submit your resume for future consideration to Stage Management
Supervisor.
Deadline: 05/12/2025
dcasting@dcpa.org
Denver Center for the Performing Arts LORT & TYA 2025-26 Season
The Denver Center intends to lead all decisions from selecting each play to the final bow, with empathy and respect. We acknowledge that race, gender, ethnicity and physical abilities of the actors on stage have meaning, and we want to be mindful of that throughout our practices. Our casting process will be led with thoughtfulness and appreciation of the artists we encounter, and any level of discrimination will not be tolerated. We do not want to assume that the space you are entering or have entered is fully inclusive of your needs but instead want to create an environment and expand our conditions that allows for your multi-faceted personhood to thrive and feel welcome.
DCPA Off-Center & Third Rail Projects Immersive Production- WAKE (Working Title) Creators: Third Rail Projects
Director: Zach Morris
Assistant Directors: Rebekah Morin & Edward Rice
Scenic Designer: Lisa Orzolek
Costume Designer: Meghan Anderson Doyle
Lighting Designer: Charles Macleod
Sound Designer: Sean Haggerty
Casting Director: Grady Soapes, CSA
LORT Experimental Contract
Equity SM - $1259 weekly, ASM $1159 weekly
Venue: Broadway Park (Broadway & Alameda in Denver, CO)
SYNOPSIS: Off-Center’s next large-scale immersive theatre production will be created by Third Rail Projects and the creative team behind Sweet & Lucky. This yet-to-be-announced project will feature a cast of 16 performers who interact with audience members and tell the story through text, dance, and movement.
FIRST REHEARSAL: July 15th, 2025
FIRST TECH: August 2nd, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: August 12th, 2025
OPENING: August 16th, 2025
CLOSING: December 14th, 2025
EXTENSION: TBD
HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH
Adapted from “The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor” by Eddie Jaku
Playwright: Mark St. Germain
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
LORT D Contract
The Singleton Theatre
SYNOPSIS: Based on The New York Times best-selling memoir by Eddie Jaku, this “powerful and magnificent new work” (BroadwayWorld) tells a remarkable story of survival, revealing a paradox of joy built on a foundation of grief.
Underneath his warm optimism, Eddie had long hidden painful memories of coming of age in Nazi Germany and his remarkable escapes from three different concentration camps. As his new friends, he invites us on his journey through the unimaginable horrors he faced, his struggle to bury the past, and how he discovered the key to truly living.
In this triumphant performance by stage and screen veteran Kenneth Tigar, Jaku’s story of resilience and kindness is testament to the indomitable strength of the human spirit as he declares himself “The Happiest Man on Earth.”
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Director: Chris Coleman, DCPA Artistic Director
LORT C Contract
Kilstrom Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: September 2nd, 2025
DESIGNER RUN: September 24th, 2025
FIRST TECH: September 27th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: October 3rd, 2025
OPENING: October 10th, 2025
CLOSING: November 2nd, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama unfolds one sweltering Mississippi night on the Pollitt family estate, where three generations reunite to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday. As speculation about Big Daddy’s health simmers just beneath the festivities, rivalries for his favor and the family fortune heat up. Determined to come out on top, Maggie struggles to get her troubled husband Brick to fall in line as they dance around the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage.
As the sun sets and the veneer of Southern gentility slips away, family betrayals and unburied truths leave no one unscathed. Raw, turbulent, and riveting from start to finish, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a bona fide American classic that you simply can’t afford to miss.
NOTE: The play takes place in Mississippi in 1955.
GOODNIGHT MOON
Based on the book by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
Book, Lyrics & Music: Chad Henry
Director: Allison Watrous, DCPA Executive Director of Education
Music Director: TBD
Choreographer: TBD
TYA Agreement
The Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: September 30th, 2025
DESIGNER RUN: October 15th, 2025
FIRST TECH: October 18th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: October 24th, 2025
OPENING: October 29th, 2025
CLOSING: January 25th, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Animals and characters from the original story by Margaret Wise Brown come to life in this playful, whimsical musical version of Goodnight Moon.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Playwright: Charles Dickens
Adapted by: Richard Hellesen
Director: Anthony Powell
Choreographer: Grady Soapes
Music Director: Dan Graeber
LORT B Contract
The Wolf Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: October 31st, 2025
DESIGNER RUN: November 12th, 2025
FIRST TECH: November 15th, 2025
FIRST PREVIEW: November 21st, 2025
OPENING: November 28th, 2025
CLOSING: December 28th, 2025
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.
COWBOYS & EAST INDIANS (World Premiere)
Playwright(s): Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler
Director: Chris Coleman
LORT D Contract
Singleton Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: December 16th, 2025
FIRST TECH: January 9th, 2026
FIRST PREVIEW: January 16th, 2026
OPENING: January 23rd, 2026
CLOSING: March 1st, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Adapted from Nina McConigley’s award-winning collection of short stories, Cowboys and East Indians follows the Sen family as they grapple with expectations and cultural collisions moving from India to Wyoming.
Lakshmi “Lucky” Sen’s dad calls her a prairie dog — hesitant and scared on the side of the road. Now on a mission to fulfill her mom's final wish, Lucky has to figure out saris, how to stop burning the spices, and all the things she didn't pay attention to while she was busy trying to fit in. But on the eve of her sister’s wedding, a family secret resurfaces, and Lucky realizes there might be a lot more about her mom and being a “good Indian daughter” that she doesn’t know.
A rare exploration of rural immigrant experiences in the American West, Cowboys and East Indians examines the question of how one understands their identity when they don’t see a reflection of it in their community.
GODSPEED (World Premiere)
Playwright: Terence Anthony
Director: Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
LORT C Contract
The Kilstrom Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: January 2nd, 2026
FIRST TECH: January 24th, 2026
FIRST PREVIEW: January 30th, 2026
OPENING: February 6th, 2026
CLOSING: February 22nd, 2026
SYNOPSIS: It’s 1865. Slavery has just been abolished in Texas. And a gunslinger named Godspeed returns to the Lone Star State with a six-shooter, one bullet, and vengeance on her mind.
Having escaped bondage by fleeing to Mexico a decade earlier, she’s ready to stare down danger and near-certain death as she sets out on a perilous journey across the frontier with both wanted and unwanted companions in tow. But, when the time comes to satisfy her own personal vendetta, an unexpected discovery will make her question if the vengeance she desires can deliver the justice she’s been seeking.
Steeped in the ethos of a classic Western, Godspeed casts light on an often-ignored chapter of American history while taking audiences on an epic theatrical adventure.
NEXT TO NORMAL
Music: Tom Kitt
Book and Lyrics: Brian Yorkey
Director: Nancy Keystone
Music Director: Angela Steiner
LORT B Contract
Wolf Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: February 24th, 2026
FIRST PREVIEW: April 3rd, 2026
OPENING: April 10th, 2026
CLOSING: May 3rd, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Winner of three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal deploys wry humor and brutal honesty to explore how a family navigates their darkest hours — and finds the path to new beginnings.
On the surface, Diana has it all — a house in the suburbs, a successful architect husband, and two sharp-witted teens. But beneath this perfect facade is a nuclear family on the verge of exploding, doing everything they can to make it through another day in one piece. Propelled by an unforgettable pop-rock score, this is an honest and unflinching ride through the complexities of mental health and unconditional love.
This groundbreaking musical is a story of love and resilience that hits close to home, making you laugh, cry, and reflect on the struggles that shape us along the way.
ENGLISH
Playwright: Sanaz Toossi
Director: Hamid Dehghani
LORT D Contract
Singleton Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: March 20th, 2026
FIRST PREVIEW: April 17th, 2026
OPENING: April 24th, 2026
CLOSING: May 31st, 2026
SYNOPSIS: “English Only.” This one rule governs language instructor Marjan's classroom, where she teaches four adult students outside of Tehran. Together, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground, chasing fluency through a maze of word games, listening exercises, and show-and-tell sessions. They hope that one day English will make them whole. But it might be splitting each of them in half.
Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning English is a disarmingly funny and tender play about the foibles of language and miscommunication. Make sure you’re marked as “present” for a work Variety calls “undeniably one of the best plays of the decade,” when it makes its Denver debut in spring 2026.
SOMEWHERE
Playwright: Matthew Lopez
Director: Laurie Woolery
LORT C Contract
Kilstrom Theatre
FIRST REHEARSAL: April 3rd, 2026
DESIGNER RUN: April 22nd, 2026
FIRST TECH: April 25th, 2026
FIRST PREVIEW: May 1st, 2026
OPENING: May 8th, 2026
CLOSING: May 31st, 2026
SYNOPSIS: From the Tony Award-winning writer of The Inheritance and The Legend of Georgia McBride comes a music and dance-filled portrait of a tight-knit Puerto Rican family striving to make it in show business.
It’s 1959, West Side Story is a Broadway sensation, and the Candelarias’ small Manhattan apartment is filled with big love and plenty of talent. With news of a film version of the hit musical in the works, it seems that the family’s dreams of the spotlight might finally come true. But a sudden notice announcing a neighborhood-wide eviction threatens to destroy their home and the passions that have sustained their American Dream.
Dance, family bonds, and unextinguishable hope take center stage in Somewhere by DCPA fan favorite Matthew López.
This play is a love letter to Broadway musicals, theater but especially dance – in all forms: ballet, cha cha, salsa, tap dance/soft shoe and musical theater.
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