Denver Center for the Performing Arts LORT & TYA 2026-27 Season Equity Stage Managers - Denver Center for the Performing Arts Auditions

DENVER CENTER THEATRE LORT AND TYA 2026-27 SEASONS - STAGE MANAGER SUBMISSIONS

Denver Center for the Performing Arts | Denver, CO

Notice: Stage Manager

PERSONNEL

Grady Soapes (he/him), CSA - DCPA Director of Casting

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

denvercenter.org/casting

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.

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep / TYA

DCPA pays above minimum in each of its spaces.

On All Stages:

• Stage manager: $1460 weekly
• Assistant stage manager: $1241 weekly

Below are contractual minimums:

• The Wolf (LORT B) - $1446 weekly minimum - Stage manager
• $1229 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
• The Kilstrom (LORT C) - $1335 weekly minimum - Stage manager
• $1121 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
• The Singleton (LORT D) - $1097 weekly minimum - Stage manager
• $901 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
• The Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre (TYA) - $878 weekly minimum - Stage manager
• $698 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager

SEEKING

All Equity stage managerial positions for Denver Center Theatre's LORT and TYA 2026-27 Seasons have been filled. Please submit for future consideration.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts Casting Statement:

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.

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for future consideration.
Deadline: Monday, April 27, 2026

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DISTINY OF DESIRE

A co-production with Denver Center Theatre Company & Center Theatre Group

Playwright: Karen Zacarias
Director: Marcela Lorca
Choreographer: TBD
Music Director: Deborah Wicks La Puma
Composer: TBD
Dramaturg: Ken Cerniglia
Fight & Intimacy Choreographer: TBD
Voice & Dialect Coach: TBD

DCPA Information:

• The Wolf Theatre
• REH: Aug 11th, 2026
• DESIGNER RUN: Sept 1st
• TECH: Sept 4th
• PREVIEW: Sept 11th
• OPENING: Sept 18th
• CLOSING: Oct 4th, 2026

CTG Information:

• LORT A Contract
• Mark Taper Forum
• REH: Nov 3rd, 2026
• TECH: Nov 6th
• PREVIEW: Nov 11th
• OPENING: Nov 15th
• CLOSING: Dec 20th, 2026
• POTENTIAL EXTENSION CLOSING: Dec 27th, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Delight in every scandalous plot twist and epic love story of this vibrant, brilliantly funny, and completely unapologetic homage to the telenovela. On a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born – one into outlandish wealth, and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a ruthless ex-beauty queen, the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes to grow into an extraordinary destiny. Karen Zacarías' hilarious hit, Destiny of Desire, has everything you love about telenovelas, while bursting with Brechtian interludes, Shakespearian-style antics, and live music - even if you’ve never watched a telenovela, you’ll know why it’s one of the most popular forms of storytelling on the planet.

THE TEMPEST

Playwright: William Shakespeare
Director: Chris Coleman, DCPA Artistic Director
Casting: Grady Soapes, CSA & Chad Murnane, CSA- Murnane Casting
Dramaturg: Leean Kim Torske
Psychodramaturg: Barbara Hort
Fight Choreographer: Geoffrey Kent
Voice & Dialect Coach: Robert Ramirez
Music Director: Dan Graeber

Information:

• The Kilstrom Theatre
• REH: Aug 28th, 2026
• TECH: Sept 26th
• PREVIEW: Oct 2nd
• OPENING: Oct 9th
• CLOSING: Nov 1st, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Get swept away by Shakespeare’s fantastical tale of shipwreck, magic, monsters, and romance. Exiled from their home, the sorcerer Prospero and his daughter Miranda have survived for years on a remote island. When a ship carrying Prospero’s enemies sails into his conjured storm, he finally has a chance to take revenge—and maybe, to weave a brighter future for his daughter. Ensnaring everyone in his labyrinth of madness and misdirection, Prospero summons all his power to set his world right. Lyrical and spellbinding, The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s final masterpieces.

DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! THE MUSICAL!

Based on the book: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Playwright: Mo Willems
Music: Deborah Wicks La Puma
Director: Allison Watrous, DCPA Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement
Choreographer: Diana Dresser
Music Director: Jordan Ortman

Information:

• The Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre
• REH: Sept 29th, 2026
• TECH: Oct 17th
• PREVIEW: Oct 23rd
• OPENING: Oct 28th
• CLOSING: Dec 20th, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Whatever you do, don't let the Pigeon star in his own musical production! With a script written by Mo Willems, the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling, Caldecott Honor award-winning Pigeon picture books, and featuring music by Deborah Wicks La Puma (Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play!), Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! is even more fun than staying up late and having a hot dog party! It's not easy being the Pigeon-you never get to do ANYTHING! But when the Bus Driver has a crisis that threatens to make her passengers (gasp!) late, maybe that wily bird CAN do something. Featuring an innovative mix of songs, and feathers, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! is sure to get everyone's wings flapping.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Playwright: Charles Dickens
Adapted by: Richard Hellesen
Director: Anthony Powell
Choreographer: Grady Soapes
Music Director: Dan Graeber
Voice & Dialect: Jeffrey Parker

Information:

• The Wolf Theatre
• REH: Nov 3rd, 2026
• TECH: Nov 20th
• PREVIEW: Nov 27th
• OPENING: Dec 4th
• CLOSING: Dec 27th, 2026

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.

BOGFRIENDS (WORLD PREMIERE)

Playwright: jose sebastian alberdi
Director: Joshua Kahan Brody
Dramaturg: Leean Kim Torske
Fight & Intimacy Choreographer: TBD
Voice & Dialect Coach: TBD

Information:

• The Singleton Theatre
• REH: Dec 15th, 2026
• TECH: Jan 9th, 2027
• PREVIEW: Jan 15th
• OPENING: Jan 22nd
• CLOSING: Feb 21st, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Tanner & Archie just broke up. Finn & Cillian are newly engaged. Osgar & Irial died over four thousand years ago. A discovery in an Irish bog binds their lives together across the centuries. With poetic language and a little mud, bogfriends is a theatrical meditation on eternity, love, and preserving dead things (or trying to).

HOW TO CONQUER AMERICA: A MOSTLY TRUE HISTORY OF YOGURT (WORLD PREMIERE)

Playwright: David Myers
Director: Margot Bordelon
Dramaturg: TBD
Voice & Dialect Coach: Jeffrey Parker

Information:

• The Kilstrom Theatre
• REH: Jan 5th, 2027
• TECH: Jan 30th
• PREVIEW: Feb 5th
• OPENING: Feb 12th
• CLOSING: Feb 28th, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Arlene is a pro at controlling the narrative. As an ambitious research assistant in 1975, she created the ad campaign that transformed yogurt from a weird foreign laxative into a lucrative American phenomenon. It would be a success story for the ages—it would—if only her dead dad could stay on script. Can Arlene wrangle this victory lap back on course, or will her father unravel the story she's written for herself? How to Conquer America: A Mostly True History of Yogurt wrestles with culture, family, and appropriation in a heartfelt, dairy-filled take on the American Dream.

ONCE

Book: Enda Walsh
Music & Lyrics: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
Director: Chris Coleman, DCPA Artistic Director
Choreographer: Jenn Freeman
Music Director: James Olmestead
Dramaturg: Madison Cook Hines
Psychodramaturg: Barbara Hort
Voice & Dialect Coach: Jeffrey Parker

Information:

• The Wolf Theatre
• REH: Feb 23rd, 2027
• TECH: Mar 26th
• PREVIEW: Apr 2nd
• OPENING: Apr 9th
• CLOSING: May 2nd, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Based on the critically acclaimed film and featuring a soaring folk-rock score, Once is a celebration of the uniting, healing power of music. On the streets of Dublin, a heartbroken Irish songwriter meets a Czech pianist who won’t let him sell his guitar. By the end of one fateful week, their budding friendship evolves into a powerful but complicated love story that will change their lives forever. The only show to have music that won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Olivier Award, and a Tony Award, Once is an achingly beautiful, joyously uplifting story that continues to strike an unforgettable chord.

AND SO WE WALKED

The Denver Center Theatre Company presents The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts’ production.

Playwright & Performer: DeLanna Studi
Director: Corey Madden
Produced by: Octopus Theatricals - Mara Isaacs, Executive & Creative Producer

Information:

• The Singleton Theatre
• REH: Apr 9th, 2027
• TECH: Apr 13th
• PREVIEW: Apr 16th
• OPENING: Apr 23rd
• CLOSING: May 23rd, 2027

SYNOPSIS: DeLanna Studi, a Cherokee artist and activist, knew that if she hoped to share the story of both the tragedy and triumph in her ancestors’ complex legacy, she would need to walk in the footsteps of their forced relocation. In a captivating, tour-de-force performance, she embarks on that 900-mile journey with her aging father, hoping to truly understand her own identity and her relationship to the modern Cherokee nation. But doing so might require her to reckon with parts of herself she’s not ready to face. Slipping deftly between the past, present, and dream world, And So We Walked is a powerful and inspiring theatrical memoir that draws on extraordinary interviews, history, and the artist’s personal experience traveling the Trail of Tears.

DIAL M FOR MURDER

Playwright: Jeffrey Hatcher
Adapted from the original by: Frederick Knott
Director: Nancy Keystone
Composer: Randy Tico
Voice & Dialect Coach: TBD

Information:

• The Kilstrom Theatre
• REH: Mar 30th, 2027
• TECH: Apr 24th, 2027
• PREVIEW: Apr 30th, 2027
• OPENING: May 7th, 2027
• CLOSING: May 30th, 2027

SYNOPSIS: An unburied secret. A deadly trap. A flawless alibi. Tony Wendice is confident he has planned the perfect crime. Before the night is over, he’ll have enacted revenge on his cheating wife, bested his infuriating rival, and landed a financial windfall in a single, brilliant maneuver – all without so much as a single drop of blood on his cufflinks. But when his clever scheme unexpectedly goes awry, Tony’s twisted web of deceit, jealousy, and betrayal threatens to ensnare them all. A suspenseful new spin on Hitchcock’s classic cat-and-mouse thriller, Dial M for Murder will have you on the edge of your seat.