GEVA THEATRE CENTER 2025-26 SEASON Equity Stage Managers - Geva Theatre Center Auditions

GEVA THEATRE CENTER 2025-26 SEASON - STAGE MANAGER SUBMISSIONS

Geva Theatre Center | Rochester, NY

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$1364 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Stage manager
$1159 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Assistant stage manager
$1035 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Stage manager
$850 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Assistant stage manager

SEEKING

Equity stage managers for Geva Theatre Center's 2025-26 Season.

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration to
Thalia Schramm, General Manager
Deadline: 04/15/2025

PERSONNEL

Casting Director: Karie Koppel
General Manager: Thalia Schramm
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

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.

BREAKDOWN

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG

Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, & Henry Shields
Co-Production with Indiana Repertory Theatre (Originating Theatre)
Director: Benjamin Hanna
First Rehearsal: Aug 22 or Aug 28, 2025
Performances: Sept 9 - Oct 10, 2025
Wilson Stage, LORT B

SYNOPSIS: A long-running commercial success on the West End and Broadway comes to Geva! The intrepid thespians of the Cornley Drama Society are more or less ready to raise the curtain on the grandest production the village has ever seen, The Murder at Haversham Manor — until things go from bad to calamitous. There’s an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that won’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines) — and that’s only the first act. It’s nothing you want in a show — and everything you want in a comedy!

SANCOCHO

Written by Christin Eve Cato
Director: N/A
First Rehearsal: Sept 12 or Sept 16, 2025
Performances: Oct 14 - Nov 23, 2025
Fielding Stage, LORT D

SYNOPSIS: Caridad is determined to teach her younger sister to cook the family recipe for the traditional beef stew, sancocho — but Renata only wants her to review their father’s will. Simmering between the two Puerto Rican sisters is a family tension that finally comes to a boil as their father enters hospice care. Christin Eve Cato’s Sancocho explores family secrets, generational divides, and the healing that can only come from a meal made with love.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Written by Charles Dickens
Adapted by Harrison David Rivers
Original direction by Elizabeth Williamson
Director: Jasmine B. Gunter
First Rehearsal: Oct 21 or Oct 28, 2025
Performances: Nov 19 - Dec 28, 2025
Wilson Stage, LORT B

SYNOPSIS: Charles Dickens’ holiday classic returns to the Geva stage in a new adaptation by Playwright in Residence Harrison David Rivers. Over the course of a single night, notorious grump Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts. But will their intervention prompt him to change his “humbug” ways? A Christmas Carol reminds us that it is never too late to have a change of heart.

SUSAN HILL’S THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt
Presented by Pemberley Productions
Director: Robin Herford
First Rehearsal: Jan 13, 2026
Performance: Jan 14 - Feb 8, 2026
Wilson Stage, LORT B

SYNOPSIS: The second longest-running play in the history of the West End, The Woman in Black is a chilling drama, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. Mallatratt conjured a complete world into which generations of young people have entered, surrendering to the ultimate magic of theatre: their own imaginations. A dark and scary mystery unfolds as an old man recounts the events of his youth when he went to the fog-embanked countryside of England to settle the estate of a family shrouded in a tragedy that continues to haunt (literally!) anyone who comes too close.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK

Written by Neil Simon
Director: Rachel Alderman
First Rehearsal: Jan 30, 2026
Performance Dates: Feb 28 - Mar 29, 2026
Wilson Stage, LORT B

SYNOPSIS: Opposites attract in Neil Simon’s celebrated romantic comedy. Newlyweds Paul, a strait-laced lawyer, and Corie, a free spirit, have barely returned from their honeymoon, and their marriage is already on the fritz, like the telephone line in their new apartment. Corie wants Paul to be more spontaneous and do things like run “barefoot in the park,” and Paul just wants to get a good night’s sleep. When Corie’s prim and proper mother drops by for an unexpected visit, and their eccentric upstairs neighbor, Mr. Velasco, climbs in through their upstairs window, hilarity ensues! This slice of newlywed life is sure to remind even long-married couples of the pleasures and perils of falling in love.

FURLOUGH’S PARADISE

Written by a.k. payne
Director: Jasmine B. Gunter
First Rehearsal: Mar 20, 2026
Performance Dates: April 14 - May 10, 2026
Wilson Stage, LORT B

SYNOPSIS: Winner of the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Winner of the 20th Annual Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition. On a three-day furlough for her mother’s funeral, Sade stays with her only cousin. Mina is also on a brief reprieve from her life on the West Coast, and the cousins, who were once so close, come together to try to make sense of grief, home, and kinship as time ticks toward Sade’s return to prison. “An abolition play or simply a play about cousins” from one of America’s most promising new playwrights.

BARON VAUGHN: CYCLE BREAKER

Written by Baron Vaughn
Director: N/A
First Rehearsal: Mar 31, 2026
Performance Dates: April 28 - Jun 7, 2026
Fielding Stage, LORT D

SYNOPSIS: Nothing brings your own childhood into focus like raising your own children. Married 40-something father, Baron Vaughn digs into his own past to understand how it formed him and how he’ll approach parenthood in his funny and deeply human solo show. Baron explores his relationships with his parents and grandparents as he uncovers the values he wishes to instill and the damage he’d rather not pay forward to his own children. Part stand-up comedy, part memory play, Baron Vaughn: Cycle Breaker is a meditation on family and what it takes to truly break a cycle.

ANASTASIA

Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Director: Elizabeth Williamson
First Rehearsal: April 28, 2026
Performance Dates: May 27 - Jun 28, 2026
Wilson Stage, LORT B

SYNOPSIS: This Tony Award-nominated musical inspired by the beloved films takes us on a journey to the past. Iconic songs like Once Upon a December, Learn to Do It, and Journey to the Past transport us from the darkness of Soviet Russia to the opulence of Paris in the ‘20s, as Anya and new friends Dmitry, a handsome conman, and Vlad, a bumbling ex-aristocrat, hatch a plan to pass her off as Grand Duchess Anastasia to her grandmother, the Dowager Empress. But could it be that Anya really is the long-lost Romanov?