Portland Stage Company 2026-27 Season Equity Stage Managers - Portland Stage Company Auditions

PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY 2026-27 SEASON - STAGE MANAGER SUBMISSIONS

Portland Stage Company | Portland, ME

NOTICE: STAGE MANAGER

CONTRACT

PERSONNEL

LORT Non-Rep Anita Stewart: Artistic Director

$1025 weekly minimum (LORT D - Protected) - Stage manager. See breakdown for production specific personnel.

$843 weekly minimum (LORT D - Protected) -

OTHER DATES

SEEKING

Equity stage managers for Portland Stage Company's OTHER 2026-27 Season.
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SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration. 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.

Deadline: Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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BREAKDOWN

ARCADIA

By: Tom Stoppard

Dir: TBD

1st Rehearsal: 9/8/2026

Opening: 10/2/2026

Closing: 10/25/2026

SYNOPSIS: This masterwork from the late Tom Stoppard follows two storylines separated by centuries. In 1809 in the Coverly Estate, the classical garden is becoming remade to match the modern romantic mold, and in the present researchers delve into the secrets of the past. As both eras bleed into one another Stoppard explores the nature of truth, time, and the attractive force that Newton left out.

ROOTED

By: Deborah Zoe Laufer

Dir: TBD

1st Rehearsal: 10/13/2026

Opening: 11/6/2026

Closing: 11/22/2026

SYNOPSIS: In this play by Deborah Zoe Laufer, introverted gardener, Emery, finds out as her followers grow, and she discovers she's cultivating more than just plants. As true believers flock to her home and the chaos outside mounts to a fever pitch she and her sister, Hazel, find themselves at odds as they struggle to agree on what matters in life.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A RADIO PLAY

By: Joe Landry

Dir: Anita Stewart

1st Rehearsal: 11/10/2026

Opening: 12/5/2026

Closing: 12/24/2026

SYNOPSIS: A beloved American classic presented as a live 1940s style radio play by Joe Landry complete with old fashioned sound effects. With the help of the town and an angel named Clarence, George Bailey discovers the difference that one man’s life can make.

THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES

By: Peter Colley

Dir: Kevin R. Free

1st Rehearsal: 1/5/2027

Opening: 1/29/2027

Closing: 2/21/2027

SYNOPSIS: In a comedic whodunit by Peter Colley, a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle, is asked to tag along with his professor to investigate a murder that leads them from high society, to darkened alleys, and the Scottish moors. With all the intrigue and flair of a proper Sherlock mystery with 7 actors playing multiple roles.

I AM MY OWN WIFE

By: Doug Wright

Dir: Drew Barr

1st Rehearsal: 2/9/2027

Opening: 3/5/2027

Closing: 3/21/2027

SYNOPSIS: Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize winning one person play transports us to the world of Charlotte von Malsdorf, an openly trans woman, who lived during two of modern Europe's most repressive regimes–the Nazis and Stasi of Communist East Germany. Composed of interviews with Mahlsdorf and others Wright creates a fascinating portrait of life in a turbulent time.

JANE EYRE

By: Elizabeth Williamson

Dir: Jade King Carroll

1st Rehearsal: 3/9/2027

Opening: 4/2/2027

Closing: 4/25/2027

SYNOPSIS: Jane takes a job as a governess on a remote estate hoping to put her troubled childhood behind her in this adaptation of the Brontë novel by Elizabeth Williamson. But as the bond between the governess and her brooding employer grows, the secrets that envelop her new home ignite. Brontë’s epic is brought to life by a cast of eight.

REVELATION

Conceived & Adapted by: Kerin Coonrod from the short story by Flannery O’Connor

Dir: Karin Coonrod

1st Rehearsal: 4/13/2026

Opening: 5/7/2027

Closing: 5/23/2027

SYNOPSIS: Karin Coonrad of Compagnia de' Colombari is developing this actor-driven adaptation of one of Flannery O'Connor's final stories. This Southern Gothic story revolves around Ruby Turpin, a woman who judges the faults of everyone around her.