Contemporary American Theater Festival | Shepherdstown, WV
Shepherdstown, WV

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Stage Manager

CONTRACT

LORT Rep

Stage manager:

$1035 weekly minimum (LORT D) - until 6/28/26

$1097 weekly minimum (LORT D) - after 6/29/26

Assistant stage manager:

$850 weekly minimum (LORT D) - until 6/28/26

$901 weekly minimum (LORT D) - after 6/29/26

SEEKING
Equity stage managers for Contemporary

American Theater Festival's 2026 Summer Season.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration at: https://catf.bamboohr.com/care... . Please look for “AEA Stage Manager-2026” and “AEA Assistant Stage Manager-2026”.

Deadline: 02/23/2026

SUBMIT TO

PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Peggy McKowen
Managing Director: Amy Wratchford

OTHER DATES
Contract dates vary slightly by production, but are generally:

Prep Week: June 2

First Rehearsal: June 9

Tech Begins: June 28 or June 30 (based on show)

Previews: July 5-10 (based on show, each show has 2 scheduled previews)

Opening: July 10-11

Closing: August 2 (all shows)

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.

BREAKDOWN

Contemporary American Theater Festival 2026 Season

THE BRIDGE
Written by Harmon dot aut
Directed by Craig Lucas

SYNOPSIS: “. . . a person living on the street is no longer a citizen.” Franky is an Autistic, creative, loving, resilient, queer artist living on the streets of Minneapolis as the world and the voices within him try to pinpoint his “problem.” Brilliant, funny, & heartbreaking, The Bridge is a play unlike any you’ve seen before, immersing you in a world of troubled memory and magical thinking, a world at once limited by homelessness and poverty and unlimited in the human

MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST
Written by Beth Kander
Directed by: TBD

SYNOPSIS: “Modesty hasn’t done much for women, historically speaking.” Nichols & May were one of the greatest comedy duos of all time, but when they parted ways, Mike Nichols soared while Elaine May struggled. The system wasn’t built for “difficult” women, but it endlessly rewarded “charming” men. Decades later, when Mike approaches Elaine with a new opportunity, she must wrestle with what matters more: succeeding on her own, or reuniting with the partner who knows her true worth. Set in the complex intersection of creativity, competition, and gender disparity, this split-second-timed, laughout- loud play imagines the power of lifelong friendships, thorns and all.

REFUGEE RHAPSODY
Written by Yussef El Guindi
Directed by: Zi Alikhan

SYNOPSIS: “Because love will always carve you up eventually.” Jealous love sears the skin of this darkly comic play like lava seeping down a hillside, inevitable and all-consuming. A chance meeting of a pair of young Arab-Americans framed by their refugee experience and an impossibly rich patronesssets in motion a chain of events that leads to a violent crime. As tensions mount and relationships are shattered, a therapist (who’s grappling with her own marital issues) is hired by the defense to determine culpability. Award-winning playwright Yussef El Guindi explores immigrant lives in plays praised for “insightful, open-hearted...humor, warmth and all-around compassion” (Seattle Times).

THE SMOKER
Written by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by: Shelly Butler

SYNOPSIS: “Breath. Precious Life. Love. We can’t hold it and yet, we must hold it.” What makes
community? For this unlikely gathering of under-employed, under-insured dreamers on a New York street corner, it’s the communal need for a cigarette. As different as different can be—in gender and sexual orientation and relationship status, in their aspirations, vocations and avocations, they gather outside an apartment building to consume the chemicals that unite them--nicotine and the endorphins produced by friendship.

¡VOS!
Written by Christina Pumariega
Directed by: TBD

SYNOPSIS: “Every day, I look my daughter in the eye and tell her the truth.” The lives of five women intersect in this passionate, powerful play set in Argentina, across decades of political upheaval that led to the kidnapping and murder of tens of thousands of people who came to be known as “the disappeared”-- los desaparecidos. Juxtaposing the saga of one woman whose infertility journey has left her exhausted and broke with the stories of 1970s revolutionaries and their daughters, ¡VOS! explores the sorrow of seeking as only women can experience it.

SALARY

LORT Rep Stage manager: $1035 weekly minimum (LORT D) - until 6/28/26 $1097 weekly minimum (LORT D) - after 6/29/26 Assistant stage manager: $850 weekly minimum (LORT D) - until 6/28/26 $901 weekly minimum (LORT D) - after 6/29/26

UNION

AEA