Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO

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Notice: Stage Manager

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep / TYA

DCPA pays above minimum in each of its spaces.

On All Stages:

Stage manager: $1460 weekly

Assistant stage manager: $1241 weekly

Below are contractual minimums:

The Wolf (LORT B)

$1446 weekly minimum - Stage manager

$1229 weekly minimum Assistant stage manager

The Kilstrom (LORT C)

$1335 weekly minimum - Stage manager

$1121 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager

The Singleton (LORT D)

$1097 weekly minimum - Stage manager

$901 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager

The Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre (TYA)

$878 weekly minimum - Stage manager

$698 weekly minimum - Assistant stage manager

SEEKING

All Equity stage managerial positions for Denver Center Theatre's LORT and TYA 2026-27 Seasons have been filled.

Please submit for future consideration.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts Casting Statement:

The Denver Center intends to lead all decisions from selecting each play to the final bow, with empathy and respect. We acknowledge that race, gender, ethnicity, and physical abilities of the actors on stage have meaning, and we want to be mindful of that throughout our practices. Our casting process will be led with thoughtfulness and appreciation of the artists we encounter, and any level of discrimination will not be tolerated. We do not want to assume that the space you are entering or have entered is fully inclusive of your needs but instead want to create an environment and expand our conditions that allows for your multifaceted personhood to thrive and feel welcome.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for future consideration.

Deadline: Monday, April 27, 2026

SUBMIT TO

[email protected]

PERSONNEL

Grady Soapes (he/him), CSA - DCPA Director of Casting

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER

denvercenter.org/casting

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

Denver Center Theatre LORT and TYA 2026-27 Seasons

DESTINY OF DESIRE

A co-production with Denver Center Theatre Company & Center Theatre Group

Playwright: Karen Zacarias

Director: Marcela Lorca

Choreographer: TBD

Music Director: Deborah Wicks La Puma

Composer: TBD

Dramaturg: Ken Cerniglia

Fight & Intimacy Choreographer: TBD

Voice & Dialect Coach: TBD

DCPA Information:

The Wolf Theatre

REH: Aug 11th, 2026

DESIGNER RUN: Sept 1st

TECH: Sept 4th

PREVIEW: Sept 11th

OPENING: Sept 18th

CLOSING: Oct 4th, 2026

CTG Information:

LORT A Contract

Mark Taper Forum

REH: Nov 3rd, 2026

TECH: Nov 6th

PREVIEW: Nov 11th

OPENING: Nov 15th

CLOSING: Dec 20th, 2026

POTENTIAL EXTENSION CLOSING: Dec 27th, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Delight in every scandalous plot twist and epic love story of this vibrant, brilliantly funny, and completely unapologetic homage to the telenovela. On a stormy night in Bellarica, Mexico, two baby girls are born – one into outlandish wealth, and one into a life of poverty. When the newborns are swapped by a ruthless ex-beauty queen, the stage is set for two outrageous misfortunes to grow into an extraordinary destiny. Karen Zacarías' hilarious hit, Destiny of Desire, has everything you love about telenovelas, while bursting with Brechtian interludes, Shakespearian-style antics, and live music - even if you’ve never watched a telenovela, you’ll know why it’s one of the most popular forms of storytelling on the planet.

THE TEMPEST

Playwright: Wiliam Shakespeare

Director: Chris Coleman, DCPA Artistic Director

Casting: Grady Soapes, CSA & Chad Murnane, CSA- Murnane Casting

Dramaturg: Leean Kim Torske

Psychodramaturg: Barbara Hort

Fight Choreographer: Geoffrey Kent

Voice & Dialect Coach: Robert Ramirez

Music Director: Dan Graeber

The Kilstrom Theatre

REH: Aug 28th, 2026

TECH: Sept 26th

PREVIEW: Oct 2nd

OPENING: Oct 9th

CLOSING: Nov 1st, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Get swept away by Shakespeare’s fantastical tale of shipwreck, magic, monsters, and romance. Exiled from their home, the sorcerer Prospero and his daughter Miranda have survived for years on a remote island. When a ship carrying Prospero’s enemies sails into his conjured storm, he finally has a chance to take revenge—and maybe, to weave a brighter future for his daughter. Ensnaring everyone in his labyrinth of madness and misdirection, Prospero summons all his power to set his world right. Lyrical and spellbinding, The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s final masterpieces.

DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! THE MUSICAL!

Based on the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems

Playwright: Mo Willems

Music: Deborah Wicks La Puma

Director: Allison Watrous, DCPA Executive Director of Education and Community Engagement

Choreographer: Diana Dresser

Music Director: Jordan Ortman

The Randy Weeks Conservatory Theatre

REH: Sept 29th, 2026

TECH: Oct 17th

PREVIEW: Oct 23rd

OPENING: Oct 28th

CLOSING: Dec 20th, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Whatever you do, don't let the Pigeon star in his own musical production! With a script written by Mo Willems, the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling, Caldecott Honor award-winning "Pigeon" picture books, and featuring music by Deborah Wicks La Puma (Elephant & Piggie's We Are in a Play!), Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! is even more fun than staying up late and having a hot dog party! It's not easy being the Pigeon-you never get to do ANYTHING! But when the Bus Driver has a crisis that threatens to make her passengers (gasp!) late, maybe that wily bird CAN do something. Featuring an innovative mix of songs, and feathers, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! The Musical! is sure to get everyone's wings flapping.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Playwright: Charles Dickens

Adapted by Richard Hellesen

Director: Anthony Powell

Choreographer: Grady Soapes

Music Director: Dan Graeber

Voice & Dialect: Jeffrey Parker

The Wolf Theatre

REH: Nov 3rd, 2026

TECH: Nov 20th

PREVIEW: Nov 27th

OPENING: Dec 4th

CLOSING: Dec 27th, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Essential to the holiday season in Denver, A Christmas Carol is a joyous and opulent musical adaptation for the whole family that traces money-hoarding curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge’s triumphant overnight journey to redemption. Based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel, the DCPA Theatre Company’s production is “a splendidly festive tradition” (BroadwayWorld) that illuminates the meaning of the holiday season in a way that has resonated for generations

bogfriends (World Premiere)

Playwright: jose sebastian alberdi

Director: Joshua Kahan Brody

Dramaturg: Leean Kim Torske

Fight & Intimacy Choreographer: TBD

Voice & Dialect Coach: TBD

The Singleton Theatre

REH: Dec 15th, 2026

TECH: Jan 9th, 2027

PREVIEW: Jan 15th

OPENING: Jan 22nd

CLOSING: Feb 21st, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Tanner & Archie just broke up. Finn & Cillian are newly engaged. Osgar & Irial died over four thousand years ago. A discovery in an Irish bog binds their lives together across the centuries. With poetic language and a little mud, bogfriends is a theatrical meditation on eternity, love, and preserving dead things (or trying to).

HOW TO CONQUER AMERICA: A MOSTLY TRUE HISTORY OF YOGURT (World Premiere)

Playwright: David Myers

Director: Margot Bordelon

Dramaturg: TBD

Voice & Dialect Coach: Jeffrey Parker

The Kilstrom Theatre

REH: Jan 5th, 2027

TECH: Jan 30th

PREVIEW: Feb 5th

OPENING: Feb 12th

CLOSING: Feb 28th, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Arlene is a pro at controlling the narrative. As an ambitious research assistant in 1975, she created the ad campaign that transformed yogurt from a weird foreign laxative into a lucrative American phenomenon. It would be a success story for the ages—it would—if only her dead dad could stay on script. Can Arlene wrangle this victory lap back on course, or will her father unravel the story she's written for herself? How to Conquer America: A Mostly True History of Yogurt wrestles with culture, family, and appropriation in a heartfelt, dairy-filled take on the American Dream.

ONCE

Book: Enda Walsh

Music & Lyrics: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova

Director: Chris Coleman, DCPA Artistic Director

Choreographer: Jenn Freeman

Music Director: James Olmestead

Dramaturg: Madison Cook Hines

Psychodramaturg: Barbara Hort

Voice & Dialect Coach: Jeffrey Parker

The Wolf Theatre

REH: Feb 23rd, 2027

TECH: Mar 26th

PREVIEW: Apr 2nd

OPENING: Apr 9th

CLOSING: May 2nd, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Based on the critically acclaimed film and featuring a soaring folk-rock score, Once is a celebration of the uniting, healing power of music. On the streets of Dublin, a heartbroken Irish songwriter meets a Czech pianist who won’t let him sell his guitar. By the end of one fateful week, their budding friendship evolves into a powerful but complicated love story that will change their lives forever. The only show to have music that won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Olivier Award, and a Tony Award, Once is an achingly beautiful, joyously uplifting story that continues to strike an unforgettable chord.

AND SO WE WALKED

The Denver Center Theatre Company presents The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts’ production

Playwright & Performer: DeLanna Studi

Director: Corey Madden

Produced by: Octopus Theatricals - Mara Isaacs, Executive & Creative Producer

The Singleton Theatre

REH: Apr 9th, 2027

TECH: Apr 13th

PREVIEW: Apr 16th

OPENING: Apr 23rd

CLOSING: May 23rd, 2027

SYNOPSIS: DeLanna Studi, a Cherokee artist and activist, knew that if she hoped to share the story of both the tragedy and triumph in her ancestors’ complex legacy, she would need to walk in the footsteps of their forced relocation. In a captivating, tour-de-force performance, she embarks on that 900-mile journey with her aging father, hoping to truly understand her own identity and her relationship to the modern Cherokee nation. But doing so might require her to reckon with parts of herself she’s not ready to face. Slipping deftly between the past, present, and dream world, And So We Walked is a powerful and inspiring theatrical memoir that draws on extraordinary interviews, history, and the artist’s personal experience traveling the Trail of Tears.

DIAL M FOR MURDER

Playwright: Jeffrey Hatcher

Adapted from the original by: Frederick Knott

Director: Nancy Keystone

Composer: Randy Tico

Voice & Dialect Coach: TBD

The Kilstrom Theatre

REH: Mar 30th, 2027

TECH: Apr 24th, 2027

PREVIEW: Apr 30th, 2027

OPENING: May 7th, 2027

CLOSING: May 30th, 2027

SYNOPSIS: An unburied secret. A deadly trap. A flawless alibi. Tony Wendice is confident he has planned the perfect crime. Before the night is over, he’ll have enacted revenge on his cheating wife, bested his infuriating rival, and landed a financial windfall in a single, brilliant maneuver – all without so much as a single drop of blood on his cufflinks. But when his clever scheme unexpectedly goes awry, Tony’s twisted web of deceit, jealousy, and betrayal threatens to ensnare them all. A suspenseful new spin on Hitchcock’s classic cat-and-mouse thriller, Dial M for Murder will have you on the edge of your seat.

SALARY

On All Stages: Stage manager: $1460 weekly, Assistant stage manager: $1241 weekly; See Contract

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