2026-27 Season (Multiple Productions) Equity Stage Managers - Geffen Playhouse Auditions
Geffen Playhouse
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE 2026-27 SEASON - STAGE MANAGER SUBMISSIONS
LOCATION:
Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CAPosition: Stage Manager
CONTRACT
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
LORT B
$1446 weekly minimum - Stage manager
$1229 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
LORT D
$1097 weekly minimum - Stage manager
$901 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager
SEEKING
Equity stage managers for Geffen Playhouse's 2026-27 Season.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit your resume and cover letter to apply at:
https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/about/join-our-team/apply/
Deadline: Tuesday, July 28, 2026
PERSONNEL
Lexy McAvinchey: Associate Producer
Phyllis Schuringa: Artistic Associate/Casting Director
See
BREAKDOWN
for production specificPERSONNEL
.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Equity's
CONTRACT
s 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.
PURPOSE
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Director Phylicia Rashad
Theater: Gil Cates Theater, LORT B
Rehearsal begins: October 20, 2026
First Preview: November 11, 2026
Opening: November 19, 2026
Closing: December 13, 2026
Possible extension: Until December 20, 2026
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black radicalism. Rowdy, hilarious and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama and a long-awaited world premiere from one of the country's most celebrated voices.
LIBERATION
Written by Bess Wohl
Director Whitney White
Theater: Gil Cates Theater, LORT B
Note: This production is the second stop in a 3-city tour.
Spacing Rehearsal: Week of January 11, 2027
First Preview: January 27, 2027
Opening: February 4, 2027
Closing: February 28, 2027
THE MONSTERS
Written by Ngozi Anyanwu
Director Awoye Timpo
Theater: Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, LORT D
First Rehearsal: February 2, 2027
First Preview: March 3, 2027
Opening: March 11, 2027
Closing: April 4, 2027
Possible extension: Until April 18, 2027
As a seasoned MMA fighter at the end of his career, BIG reluctantly agrees to coach his younger sister LIL, a fierce and hungry newcomer with something to prove. Years of distance, resentment and unresolved pain simmer beneath every training session.
CLOSING COSTS
Written by Grace McLeod
Director Hannah Wolf
Produced in association with IAMA
Theater: Gil Cates Theater, LORT B
Stand alone first week of rehearsal: October 6-12, 2026
Rehearsal continues: February 23, 2027
First Preview: March 31, 2027
Opening: April 8, 2027
Closing: May 2, 2027
A scrappy real estate agent and her Uber-driving boyfriend are secretly living in the luxury property she's desperate to sell: a disastrously flipped fever dream where corners are cut and nothing works the way it should. When the home's developer shows up, things go from unethical to unhinged.
WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
Written by Alice Childress
Director LaChanze
Produced in association with LaChanze Productions
Theater: Gil Cates Theater,
Set during the height of the 1964 Harlem riot, Wine in the Wilderness unfolds in the apartment of Bill Jameson, a painter determined to capture the essence of Black womanhood in his latest tryptych. As friends take shelter from the rising tensions outside, the arrival of a young woman disrupts Bill's carefully constructed vision and exposes the assumptions, judgement and hierarchies shaping both his art and his community.
