Laguna Playhouse 2026-27 Season Equity Stage Managers - Laguna Playhouse Auditions

Laguna Playhouse 2026-27 Season - Stage Manager Submissions (Revised)

Laguna Playhouse | Laguna Beach, CA

NOTICE: Stage Manager

REVISED

PERSONNEL

Managing Director: Adele Adkins

General Manager: Denys Baker

CONTRACT

Casting Director: Michael Donovan, CSA

LORT Non-Rep Casting Director: Richie Ferris, CSA

$1335 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Stage manager

Assistant General Manager/Company Manager: Rachel Garlington

$1121 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Assistant stage manager

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

SEEKING

OTHER DATES

Equity stage managers for Laguna Playhouse's 2026-27 Season (see breakdown). The Stage manager positions have been filled. They are still seeking Assistant stage managers.

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.

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for the available Assistant stage manager positions to Rachel Garlington, Assistant General Manager/Company Manager.

Deadline: Friday, March 27, 2026

SUBMIT TO

RGarlington@lagunaplayhouse.com

Breakdown

NEW MUSICAL (TITLE TBD)

Book & Lyrics by Dan Marshall

Music by Julianne Wick Davis

Director: TBD

Music Director: TBD

Choreographer: TBD

Callbacks: 5/6/26 – 5/8/26

Rehearsal Start: 8/11/26

Previews Start: 9/9/26

Opens: 9/12/26

Closes: 10/4/26

SYNOPSIS

This is a musical adventure exploring themes of grief, friendship, and the transformative power of the natural world. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of a Wilderness Therapy Center in southern Utah, this show tells the story of an unlikely friendship forged between two young people – Rina and Darin – troubled teens who are forced out of their Digital Age comfort zones and dropped into the great outdoors.

MUSIC STYLE

Contemporary/pop musical theatre with some folk influences for the roles of Whitney and Collins.

THE 39 STEPS

Adapted by Patrick Barlow

From the Novel by John Buchan

Director: TBD

Rehearsal Start: 10/6/26

Previews Start: 10/28/26

Opens: 10/31/26

Closes: 11/21/26

SYNOPSIS

A missing spy. A mysterious woman. A man on the run. When an ordinary man stops to help a stranger, he’s catapulted into a high-speed chase across the Scottish countryside — with only his wits (and a trench coat) to survive. This fast-paced farce features over 150 characters played by just four actors in a whirlwind of costume changes, clever staging, and nonstop laughs. A comic thriller at its best, The 39 Steps is a wildly inventive tale of mistaken identity, espionage, and split-second decisions that change everything.

RENT

By Jonathan Larson

Director: Telly Leung

Music Director: TBD

Choreographer: TBD

Rehearsal Start: 3/16/27

Previews Start: 4/7/27

Opens: 4/10/27

Closes: 5/2/27

BONNIE & CLYDE

Book By Ivan Menchell

Lyrics By Don Black

Music By Frank Wildhorn

Director: J. Scott Lapp

Music Director: TBD

Choreographer: TBD

Rehearsal Start: 5/18/27

Previews Start: 6/9/27

Opens: 6/12/27

Closes: 6/27/27

SYNOPSIS

At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies in West Texas to America’s most renowned folk heroes and Texas law enforcement’s worst nightmares. Fearless, shameless and alluring, the Tony-nominated musical Bonnie & Clyde, from composer Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, Civil War, Dracula) is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country.

In this new, paired-down version by book writer Ivan Menchell (Death Note: The Musical, The Cemetery Club), the script focuses more closely on the young lovers’, their downward spiral and their loved ones' entanglement with the law. Bonnie & Clyde is a thrilling and sexy musical with a non-traditional musical theatre score, combining blues, gospel and rockabilly with an opportunity to showcase strong contemporary singers and actors who can double in many parts.