Geffen Playhouse 2025-26 Season Equity Stage Managers - Geffen Playhouse Auditions

Geffen Playhouse 2025-26 Season - Stage manager submissions

Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CA

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-our-team/
Deadline: 05/16/2025

SUBMIT TO

PERSONNEL

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

www.geffenplayhouse.org
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

AM I ROXIE?

Written & Performed by Roxana Ortega
Directed by Bernardo Cubría
1st Rehearsal: August 5, 2025
Opening: September 11, 2025
Closing: October 5, 2025
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’s 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 Fíto and Bastian clash over their visions of the American Dream, their choices send them on a collision course with fate — risking not just their futures, but their bond. Fíto, 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 — now, they’re meeting for dinner to untangle the past. Between cheeky waiters, old wounds, and the undeniable spark that still lingers between them, their “casual” 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’s 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’s real, what’s 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’s “Master Harold”… and 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.