Folger Theatre | Washington, DC
Washington, DC

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Stage Manager

CONTRACT

LOA

$1006 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - Stage manager - 2025-26 rates

$832 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - Assistant stage manager - 2025-26 rates

SEEKING

Equity stage managers for Folger Theatre's 2026-27 Season.

Stage managers of all racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities and expressions are encouraged to submit. Folger Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration to Beth Emelson.

Deadline: Tuesday, March 24, 2026

SUBMIT TO

[email protected]

PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Karen Ann Daniels
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA: Casting Director of Eisenberg Casting

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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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

Folger Theatre 2026-27 Season

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Written by William Shakespeare
Director: TBD
Rehearsals Begin: August 25, 2026

Performances: September 22 – October 25, 2025

Potential extension through November 1, 2026

Additional roles to be doubled among the cast.

The Reading Room Festival

Rehearsals Begin: January 25, 2027

Performances: January 28 – January 31, 2027

Written by TBD

Directed by TBD

The Reading Room Festival is a one-week series of staged readings of new plays and musicals that are in relationship to the works of William Shakespeare, other early modern classical writers or that speak to the mission of the Folger. Each reading is produced on a full week’s contract which uses the 29-hour. staged reading code as the template.

Over the past four years, the Reading Room Festival has introduced audiences to new plays that have gone on to full-scale productions, including the world premiere of Lauren M. Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle; Al Letson’s Julius X, which remixes Civil Rights history through the lens of Shakespeare’s tragedy; and Jacob Ming-Trent’s autobiographical How Shakespeare Saved My Life.

HAMLET

Written by William Shakespeare

Director: TBD

Rehearsals Begin: February 2, 2027

Performances: March 2 - April 4, 2026

Potential extension through April 11, 2027

Additional roles to be doubled among the cast.

Production TBD

Rehearsals Begin: April 26, 2027

Performances: May 18 – June 20, 2027

Written by TBD

Directed by TBD

Will hold auditions for this production at a later date.

SALARY

LOA $1006 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - Stage manager - 2025-26 rates $832 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - Assistant stage manager - 2025-26 rates

UNION

AEA