Signature Theatre | Arlington, VA
Arlington, VA

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Stage Manager

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 Signature Theatre's 2026- 27 Season.

Local DC Metro area stage managers are encouraged to submit.

Signature Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employer who celebrates diversity and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your resume for consideration to Kerry

Epstein, Resident Stage Manager.

Deadline: Thursday, March 12, 2026

SUBMIT TO

[email protected]

PERSONNEL
Charlotte Sandor, Casting Director/ Artistic Associate

Kerry Epstein, Resident Stage Manager

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production specific dates.

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

Signature Theatre 2026-27 Season

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

The MAX Theatre: LORT B Scale

Book by: George Furth

Music by: Stephen Sondheim

Director & Choreographer: Matthew Gardiner

Music Director: Jon Kalbfleisch

1st Rehearsal: July 28, 2026

1st Performance: August 25, 2026

Closing: November 1, 2026

All parts to be understudied.

SYNOPSIS: A compelling musical fable about friendship, compromise and the high price of success, and written with the theatrically inventive concept of beginning the story at the end of a friendship and moving backwards in time, Merrily We Roll Along follows the relationship between three friends through the good and bad times and ends in the climax at the start of their careers, facing their bright futures together.

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE

The ARK Theatre: LORT D Scale

Book, Music and Lyrics: Adam Gwon

Director & Choreographer: Matthew Gardiner

Music Director: Marika Contouris

1st Rehearsal: Friday, September 18, 2026

1st Performance: Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Closing: Sunday, December 13, 2026

All parts to be understudied

SYNOPSIS: A funny and heart-wrenching new musical centered around a small-town math teacher who reluctantly agrees to coach a misfit student for the 1996 State Thespian Competition. Enter the teacher’s new outspoken boyfriend and the devout school secretary, and he soon has trouble navigating his carefully compartmentalized life.

THE SECRET GARDEN

The MAX Theatre: LORT B Scale

Book by: Marsha Norman

Music by: Lucy Simon

Director: Ethan Heard

Choreographer: Kelly D’Amboise

Music Director: Bill Yanesh

1st Rehearsal: Friday, November 6, 2026[JG1.1]

1st Performance: Tuesday, December 8, 2026

Closing: Sunday, February 14, 2027

All parts to be understudied.

SYNOPSIS: Orphaned in India, 11-year-old MARY LENNOX returns to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald and his disabled son COLIN. The estate's many wonders include a magic garden which beckons the children with haunting melodies and the "Dreamers," spirits from Mary's past who guide her through her new life, dramatizing The Secret Garden's compelling tale of forgiveness and renewal.

THE MONSTERS

The ARK Theatre: LORT D Scale

Playwright: Ngozi Anyanwu

Director: TBD[MG3.1]

1st Rehearsal: Friday, January 8, 2027

1st Preview: Tuesday, February 2, 2027

Closing: Sunday, March 21, 2027

No Roles to be Understudied

SYNOPSIS: A sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons. For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep.

A MOUNTAIN FOR ELODIE

The MAX Theatre: LORT B Scale

Written and Performed by Benjamin Scheuer

Director: Séimí Campbell

1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, February 16, 2027

1st Preview: Tuesday, March 16, 2027

Closing: Sunday, April 18, 2027

No Roles to be Understudied

SYNOPSIS: When his daughter ELODIE is born, BEN realizes the closure he thought he’d found with his own long-dead father needs to be re-examined in this heartbreaking new show from Benjamin Scheuer, the creator of Drama Desk Award-winning “The Lion”

LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS

The ARK Theatre: LORT D Scale

Written by John Leguizamo

Director: TBA

1st Rehearsal: Friday, March 26, 2027

1st Preview: Tuesday, April 20, 2027

Closing: Sunday, June 6, 2027

No Roles to be Understudied

SYNOPSIS: When JOHN takes a peek at his son’s history textbooks, he is shocked to find nothing about the impact of Latin culture over thousands of years. Excited to share his heritage with his son, John dives deep, exploring everything from the Mayans to modern-day heroes.

URINETOWN

The MAX Theatre: LORT B Scale

Music by Mark Hollmann

Lyrics by Mark Hollmann & Greg Kotis

Book by Greg Kotis

Director: TBA

Music Director: TBA

Choreographer: TBA

1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, May 11, 2027

1st Preview: Tuesday, June 8, 2027

Closing: Sunday, August 1, 2027

All Roles to be Understudied

SYNOPSIS: A side-splitting sendup of greed, love, revolution (and musicals!), in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he's had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom! Winner of three Tony Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself!

SALARY

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

UNION

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