SPUNK Equity Stage Managers - Yale Repertory Theatre Auditions

SPUNK - Stage manager submissions

Yale Repertory Theatre / Drama Productions Inc. | New Haven, CT

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: James Bundy

Senior Artistic Producer: Amy Boratko

Associate Artistic Director: Chantal Rodriguez

Managing Director: Florie Seery

Associate Producer: Kay Perdue Meadows

Artistic Coordinator: Andrew Aaron Valdez

Casting: Calleri Jensen Davis

Written by: Zora Neale Hurston

Directed by: Tamilla Woodard

Choreography by: nicHi douglas

Traditional music and hymns by many artists with new songs and arrangements by Nehemiah Luckett

Music Direction by: John Bronston

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: August 7, 2025

Tech Begins: September 25, 2025

First Preview: October 3, 2025 (Previews on October 3, 4, 6, 7, 8)

Opening: October 9, 2025

Closing: October 25, 2025

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.

NOTICE: STAGE MANAGER

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$1035 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Stage manager

$850 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Assistant stage manager

SEEKING

Equity stage managers for SPUNK.

SYNOPSIS

Spunk, written by Zora Neale Hurston in 1935, is an early American play with music crafted from text adapted from her 1925 short story alongside the music of the Black South. This music is based on Hurston’s vast recordings of folk tunes, spirituals, and hymns from her cultural anthropology work in rural towns, work sites, chain gangs, and places of worship and leisure.

Set in an all-Black town in Florida in the 1930s, Spunk tells the story of a tall, handsome guitar-playing stranger, who comes to town looking for work. When he falls in love with Lina, who is already married, the laws of man, the power of hoodoo, and the divinity of love all collide in this fable about the triumph of love over evil.

NB: This production is not the 1989 George C. Wolfe play of the same name, based on three Hurston short stories.

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please send your resume for consideration to Associate Producer, Kay Perdue Meadows.

Deadline: 04/02/2025

SUBMIT TO

Yale Repertory Theatre
Attn: Kay Perdue Meadows
222 York Street
PO BOX 208244
New Haven, CT 06511