Martha's Vineyard Playhouse | Vineyard Haven, MA
All Equity stage managerial positions for Martha's Vineyard Playhouse's 2025 Season have been filled. Please submit for future consideration.
Please submit your resume for future consideration. Deadline: 04/15/2025
MJ Bruder Munafo, Artistic Director
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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.
A new play by Elaine Savory Jones
Directed by MJ Bruder Munafo
Commissioned by Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
SYNOPSIS: To achieve her goal to become a significant American artist, Lois Mailou Jones had to battle racism, sexism and the conditions of the art market at home. Her mother, her Haitian husband and her French friend gave her a secure base where she could strategize successes, cope with defeats and embrace the making of her unique work.
May 5-17
2-week NEAT staged reading contract - 25 hours weekly
3 public readings May 15, 16, 17
A World Premiere
Richard Michelson, Librettist
Steven Schoenberg, Composer
Directed by Kevin Newbury
Musical Direction by David Sytkowski
SYNOPSIS: Equal parts music theatre, performance art and gallery installation, Dear Edvard is an intimate, 80-minute piece – an art history biopic, love story, psychological exploration, and family drama.
June 9 – July 5
1st Rehearsal: June 10
Performances: June 20 – July 5
4-week contract, NEAT (Cat. 5)
Written and Directed by Catherine Rush
SYNOPSIS: In nineteenth-century Chilmark, deafness was not a disability. Some people could hear, others could not. And everyone learned sign language as a matter of course. A compelling drama that premiered at MV Playhouse in 2018 about a remarkable community, based on historical events.
July 7 – August 16
1st Rehearsal July 8
Performances from July 25 – August 16
6-week contract, NEAT (Cat. 5)
A new play by Allison Snyder and Christopher Hemphill
Featuring the Journals and Letters of Christopher Hemphill
Directed by Michael Herwitz
SYNOPSIS: Sometime between 1982 and 2022, in a building between Lexington and Park, a brother and a sister find themselves living together once again. Adapted from the letters and diaries of ghost writer Christopher Hemphill, Allison Snyder tells her uncle’s story in this zany and tender comedy about a family desperate to stay together whilst also staying apart.
August 18 - 30
2-week NEAT staged reading contract / 25 hours weekly
3 public readings August 28, 29, 30
By Jenny Lyn Bader
Directed by Ari Laura Kreith
September 1 – 27 (4-week contract NEAT (Cat. 4)
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