Human Race Theatre Company 2025-26 Season Equity Stage Managers - Human Race Theatre Company Auditions

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HUMAN RACE THEATRE COMPANY 2025-26 SEASON - STAGE MANAGER SUBMISSIONS

Human Race Theatre Co | Dayton, OH

CONTRACT

SPT
$725 weekly minimum (SPT 6) - Stage manager
$637 weekly minimum (SPT 6) - Assistant stage manager

SEEKING

Equity stage managers for Human Race Theatre Company's 2025-26 Season. All ages, races and ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations and abilities are encouraged to submit.

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration to Creative Producer, Tara Lail.
Deadline: 06/15/2025

SUBMIT TO

submissions@humanracetheatre.org

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: Emily N. Wells
Creative Producer: Tara Lail
Executive Director: Kappy Kilburn
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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The Human Race Theatre Company is a fully Covid vaccinated workplace.
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.

NOTICE: STAGE MANAGER

BREAKDOWN

Human Race Theatre Company 2025-26 Season

DAD'S PLACE

by Jake Lockwood
Pre-Production: August 4, 2025
First Rehearsal: August 11, 2025
Performances: September 3 – 14, 2025
A World Premiere

SYNOPSIS: Paul briefly steps away from a lucrative writing career in LA to help his father, Karl, go through an apartment that’s overrun with “stuff”. Paul seeks to use this time away from corporate clients to write something more meaningful, but the distractions of Karl’s life prove to be more than Paul’s creative inspiration can overcome. In the end, Paul finds he has just as much “stuff” to work through.

DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY

by Kate Hamill
Pre-Production: September 29, 2025
First Rehearsal: October 6, 2025
Performances: October 29 – November 9, 2025
A World Premiere

SYNOPSIS: Bouncing between horror and humor, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel is a thrilling play that questions where the true monsters hide. No damsels in distress, no romanticized villains – just a gleeful stake through the heart!

SEASONAL SHORTS

by Kelsey Celek, Chris Leyva, Marley Masterson, Aleah Vassell, Torie Wiggins, Robb Willoughby
Pre-Production: November 17, 2025
First Rehearsal: November 24, 2025
Performances: December 10 – 21, 2025
A World Premiere

SYNOPSIS: Six short plays celebrating seasonal memories, moments and silliness — for adults only! Featuring all the ups and downs of winter, our local playwrights' original plays will have your sides splitting and leave the theatre in a festive mood.

CONTRADICTION OF THE SOUTHERN SOUL

By Sally Mayes, with Director, Brett Cullen
Pre-Production: January 26, 2026
First Rehearsal: February 2, 2026
Performances: February 24 – March 1, 2026
A World Premiere

SYNOPSIS: An actress returns to her East Texas hometown in the wake of a family tragedy to make peace with the past and accept the future. This memory play with music sparks the human need for connection.

HAY FEVER

By Noël Coward
Pre-Production: March 9, 2026
First Rehearsal: March 16, 2026
Performances: April 8 – 26, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, Judith and David Bliss, a retired actress and her novelist husband, find peace to be impossible when their children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own. A houseful of misunderstandings, tempers, and drama ensue as the quiet weekend comes to a hilarious and exhausting end.

THE HOT WING KING

by Katori Hall
Pre-Production: May 4, 2026
First Rehearsal: May 11, 2026
Performances: June 3 – 14, 2026
A Regional Premiere

SYNOPSIS: It’s time for the annual “Hot Wing Festival” in Memphis Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew, however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly a first-place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing.