National Queer Theater's Criminal Queerness Festival 2026 Equity Stage Managers - National Queer Theater Auditions

National Queer Theater's Criminal Queerness Festival 2026 — Stage Manager Submissions

National Queer Theater | Brooklyn, NY

Notice: Stage Manager

CONTRACT

PERSONNEL

• Transition Casting Director: Peter Dunn
• Producers: Adam Odsess-Rubin and Rose Oser
• Director for Area D: Osh Ashruf
• Writer of Area D: Lour
• Director for Faggy Faafi Cairo Boy: Shadi Ghaheri
• Writer of Faggy Faafi Cairo Boy: Mariam Bazeed
• $680.40 weekly minimum (Year 1) — Stage Manager
• $626.50 weekly minimum (Year 1) — Assistant Stage Manager

SEEKING

Equity stage managers for National Queer Theater's Criminal Queerness Festival 2026.

OTHER DATES

AREA D
First Rehearsal: May 11
Tech: June 6–7
Performances: June 9–13

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration to Adam Odsess-Rubin, Founding Artistic Director.

SUBMIT TO

www.nationalqueertheater.org

adam@nationalqueertheater.org

Venue: HERE Arts Center

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

AREA D

Written by Lour

SYNOPSIS: A scrappy Palestinian band lands an unexpected shot on the Eurovision stage. What starts as a lucky break spirals into a glitter-drenched spectacle, forcing the band to wrestle with whether visibility is worth compromising their identity. AREA D is a bold, genre-smashing musical fusing Arab-pop, punk, and electronic sounds.

FAGGY FAAFI CAIRO BOY

Written by Mariam Bazeed

First Rehearsal: May 18
Deadline: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Tech: June 15–16
Performances: June 17–20

SYNOPSIS: In the space between living and whatever the hell comes next, between daddy issues and Daddy issues, between the city that never sleeps and the city that never even blinks… Mohammad, the prodigal, closeted son returns to Cairo, and to his father's rapidly failing, irrevocable body. Distanced from his NYC boyfriend, Mohammad reunites with an old Cairo flame who now has a life of his own. And who’s to judge him, besides that angry little angel in the corner of the hospital room?