Olney Theatre Corporation | Olney, MD
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Equity stage managers for Olney Theatre Center's 2025-26 Season. Olney Theatre Center is committed to stage managers who reflect the diversity of our world; we are actively seeking stage managers of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities.
Please submit your resume for consideration.
Deadline: 01/30/2025
productionadmin@olneytheatre.org
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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.
Written by: Tyrell Williams
Director: Daniel Bailey
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Rehearsals Begin: August 19, 2025
Previews Begin: September 17, 2025
Opening: September 20, 2025
Closing: October 26, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Bilal, Omar, and Joey are three 16-year-old friends from South London. The play takes place inside of a football pitch - Red Pitch. The three friends meet most days to play football on this pitch, which is on the Reedbury Estate where they live in South London. The story follows them practicing for and going through trials for professional football scouts, with the ambition of being scouted for a professional team, while navigating relationships with girls, their families and their hopes for the future. Beyond the pitch, their estate is undergoing huge regeneration, with many families having to move away and local businesses closing.
Music and Lyrics by: Jerry Herman
Book by: Michael Stewart
Director: Kevin S. McAllister
Choreographer: TBD
Music Director: Christopher Youstra
Performance Space: Roberts Mainstage
Rehearsals Begin: October 7, 2025
Previews Begin: November 6, 2025
Opening: November 9, 2025
Closing: January 4, 2026
SYNOPSIS: In turn-of-the-century Yonkers, New York, everyone turns to professional meddler and matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi for advice on romance, practical matters and everything else. Dolly, of course, is happy to oblige.
Written by: Charles Dickens
Adapted by: Paul Morella
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Rehearsals Begin: November 17, 2025
Performances Begin: November 29, 2025
Closing: December 28, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Using Charles Dickens’ original text, one actor recounts the story of A Christmas Carol, portraying every character, including Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, and the Cratchit Family.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Joriah Kwamé
Director: Zhailon Levingston
Choreographer: TBD
Music Director: Patrick Phillips
Performance Space: Roberts Mainstage
Rehearsals Begin: January 6, 2026
Previews Begin: February 12, 2026
Opening: February 15, 2026
Closing: March 15, 2026
Potential Extension: March 22, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the viral single of the same name, Little Miss Perfect tells the story of Noelle, a Black teen navigating her senior year of high school after her mom and stepdad invite a study abroad student to live with them. After being elected Class President, Noelle is forced to reckon with her relationship to privilege, power, and passion. Will she be true to herself and a strong leader or will she settle with her past pageantries as “Little Miss Perfect”?
Written by: Lauren Yee
Director: Nikki Mirza
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Rehearsals Begin: February 17, 2026
Previews Begin: March 18, 2026
Opening: March 21, 2026
Closing: April 26, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Journey between two eras and two generations as celebrated playwright Lauren Yee sets the stage for us to road trip there and back in her hilarious, heartfelt new play. On parallel treks, Joe drives from D.C. to Portland trying to win the heart of his unfamiliar new fiancé Jenny and, twenty years later, drives the same roads back to have one last adventure with their adopted daughter Lucy before delivering her to college. With some unexpected detours along the way, immigrants Jenny and Joe traverse the strange territory of their new country while their daughter Lucy pieces together their bittersweet family history in this beautiful new comedy about the lengths we will go for the people we love.
Written by: Brandon Jacobs Jenkins
Director: Jason Loewith
Performance Space: Roberts Mainstage
Rehearsals Begin: March 24, 2026
Previews Begin: April 23, 2026
Opening: April 26, 2026
Closing: May 24, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history. But after a disturbing discovery surfaces among their father’s possessions, the reunion takes a turn for the explosive, unleashing a series of crackling surprises and confrontations.
By: Leslie Thomas and Lori Kaye
Director: TBD
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Rehearsals Begin: April 28, 2026
Previews Begin: May 27, 2026
Performances Begin: May 30, 2026
Closing: June 28, 2026
Potential Extension: July 5, 2026
SYNOPSIS: A one-woman show about the life of Carla Hall, to be performed by Carla Hall.
Music by Steven Lutvak
Lyrics by Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freeman
Book by Robert L. Freeman
Director: Eleanor Holdridge
Choreographer: Ashleigh King
Music Director: Christopher Youstra
Performance Space: Roberts Mainstage
Rehearsals Begin: June 2, 2026
Previews Begin: July 2, 2026
Opening: July 5, 2026
Closing: August 23, 2026
Potential Extension: August 30, 2026
SYNOPSIS: When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
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