First Stage 2024-25 season - Stage manager submissions First Stage Milwaukee, Incorporated | Milwaukee, WI
Notice: Stage Manager
TYA
$819 weekly minimum
Equity stage managers for 2024-25 season (see breakdown).
Equity Stage Managers interested in working with First Stage can submit their resumes to Jessica Noones, our Director of Production.
Deadline: 03/25/2024
jnoones@firststage.org
ABOUT FIRST STAGE
Artistic Director: Jeff Frank
Associate Artistic Director: Michelle LoRicco Director of Artistic Inclusion and Community Engagement: Samantha Montgomery Director of Young Company: Matt Daniels Academy Director: J.T. Backes
Interim Education Director: Brinn Hill Company Manager: Liv Mauseth
See production-specific personnel in breakdown.
See production dates in breakdown.
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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.
FIRST STAGE is proud to employ between 24-32 professional actors every season, and there are opportunities for Internships, Understudies, and Teaching Artist Fellows. FIRST STAGE employs Actors' Equity Association Actors and non-Equity actors under a Theatre For Young Audience (TYA) Contract. First Stage is one of the nation’s largest professional theatre for young audiences. We are an Equity theatre that also hires non-Equity actors and understudies for all shows. Contracts run in length from six to nine weeks. We do age-appropriate casting for our young roles, and cast anywhere from five to twenty-five young performers per show. We also are interested in actors who have experience or potential as teaching artists either in our Theater in Education department or our nationally acclaimed Theater Academy.
Our 2024-25 season will include the following titles and production dates:
Todd Wehr Theater
Book and lyrics by Sarah Hammond
Music by Will Aronson
Commissioned by Theatreworks USA, based on the Pete the Cat series by James Dean and Kimberly Dean
Synopsis: When cool, smooth Pete the Cat moves in with the perfectly normal Biddle family, he rocks their world with his strumming and strutting. Everybody loves Pete, except for Jimmy, the world's most organized 2nd grader. But when Jimmy draws a blank in art class, Pete takes him on the inspirational
road trip of a lifetime! The whole family will love Pete's hilarious, jazzy antics in this toe-tapping musical.
Rehearsal Dates: Sept. 4 – Oct. 3, 2024
Wed-Fri 4-8:30pm
Sat 12:30-4pm or 5-8:30pm
Sun 10-1:30pm or 2:30-6pm
Performance Dates: Oct. 4 – Nov. 3, 2024
plus, potential for added performances through Nov. 10
Todd Wehr Theater
Based on the animated television special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and the stage production directed and conceived by Jeff Frank and First Stage. Script adaptation by Robert Penola. Arrangements and orchestrations by Timothy Splain. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” animated television special adapted from a story by Robert L. May and the song by Johnny Marks, music and lyrics by Johnny Marks.
Directed by Jeff Frank
Synopsis: And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows! The beloved TV classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer soars off the screen and returns to our stage this holiday season. From fleeing the Abominable Snow Monster to saving Christmas, join Rudolph and his friends, Hermey the Elf and Yukon Cornelius, as their adventures teach us that what makes you different can be what makes you special. Don’t miss this wonderful holiday tradition that speaks to the little misfit in all of us.
Rehearsal Dates: Nov. 6 – Nov. 27, 2024
Wed-Fri 4-8:30pm
Sat 12:30-4pm or 5-8:30pm
Sun 10-1:30pm or 2:30-6pm
Performance Dates: Nov. 29 – Dec. 29, 2024
Goodman Theatre
by Steve and Kathy Hotchner
Directed by Jeff Frank
Movement by Samantha Montgomery
Synopsis: In this participation play the audience journey back to a world millions and millions of years ago, transported the moment they enter the theatre into the atmosphere of the last age of the dinosaurs. In front of them is a dinosaur egg, tapping out a call for help. With the help of a fellow explorer, the children interpret what the egg is saying and help the egg to hatch. They then must decide if they want form an alliance with a rough Triceratops, and choose how they will protect the newly formed dinosaur family. They’ll have to find a way to work together if they are to defeat Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Rehearsal Dates: Jan. 2, 2024 – Jan. 17, 2025
Mon, Wed-Fri 4-8:30pm
Sat 12:30-4pm or 5-8:30pm
Sun 10-1:30pm or 2:30-6pm
Performance Dates: Jan. 18 – Feb. 16, 2025
plus, potential for added performances through Feb. 23
Todd Wehr Theater
Written and composed by Marcus Yi
Directed by Michelle LoRicco
Synopsis: Since her mother's death, Emily Song's home has always been a musical vacuum. Her father banned music from their lives for as long as she can remember. But that doesn't stop Emily from secretly taking singing lessons online. On her 12th birthday, Emily's powers manifest and she discovers she is a music mage: a sorcerer who can cast magical spells through music. When her father is kidnapped by a mysterious entity known as the Queen of Shadows, Emily must figure out how to use her newly discovered talent to save her dad, and New York City from total destruction.
Rehearsal Dates: Jan. 8 – Jan. 30, 2025
Wed-Fri 4-8:30pm
Sat 12:30-4pm or 5-8:30pm
Sun 10-1:30pm or 2:30-6pm
Performance Dates: Jan. 31 – Feb. 16, 2025
Todd Wehr Theater
Theatre for Young Audiences Version
Music and Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Kristin Anderson-Lopez
Book adapted by Lindsay Anderson
Music and Orchestrations Adapted and Arranged by Myrna Conn
Based on the 2003 Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo written by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds and directed by Andrew Stanton.
Directed by Jeff Frank
Co-Directed & Choreographed by Michael Dean Morgan
Synopsis: Marlin, an anxious and over-protective clownfish, lives in the Great Barrier Reef with his kid Nemo, who longs to explore the world beyond their anemone home. But when Nemo is captured and taken to Sydney, Marlin faces his fears and sets off on an epic adventure across the ocean. With the help of lovable characters such as optimistic Dory, laid-back sea turtle Crush, and the supportive Tank Gang, Marlin and Nemo both overcome challenges on their journey to find each other and themselves.
Rehearsal Dates: Feb. 5 – Mar. 7, 2025
Wed-Fri 4-8:30pm
Sat 12:30-4pm or 5-8:30pm
Sun 10-1:30pm or 2:30-6pm
Performance Dates: Mar. 8 – Apr. 6, 2025
plus, potential for added performances through Apr. 13
Todd Wehr Theater
Adapted by Alvaro Saar Rios
From the book by Pam Muñoz Ryan
With original music by Dinorah Marquez
Directed by Michelle Lopez-Rios
Synopsis: First Stage Playwright in Residence Alvaro Saar Rios, with frequent collaborator and composer Dinorah Marquez, combine their talents to bring a new fast-paced theatrical version of the powerful story to the stage, underscored with original music. Two young storytellers, with the help of
an ensemble of actors, take the stage and begin to weave the tale of Esperanza - a wealthy Mexican girl whose privileged existence is shattered when tragedy strikes, and she and her mother must flee to California. Forced to work in a migrant labor camp, Esperanza must learn to rise above her difficult circumstances and discover what she's truly made of. Set in the turbulent 1930s, and based on the popular book by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising is a poetic tale of a young girl's triumph over adversity.
Rehearsal Dates: Apr. 9 – May 1, 2025
Wed-Fri 4-8:30pm
Sat 12:30-4pm or 5-8:30pm
Sun 10-1:30pm or 2:30-6pm
Performance Dates: May 2 – May 22, 2025 plus, potential for added performances through June 1.
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