Positions

Stage Manager

 

MadKap Productions at the Skokie Theatre seeks experienced stage managers for its 2023-2024 Season.  The responsibilities of the stage manager include:

 

• Schedule and attend all production meetings.

• Attend and assist with auditions and callbacks.

• Schedule and attend all production activity during tech week.

• Attend all rehearsals.

• Take cast attendance during tech week rehearsals and performances.  Contact absent cast members.

• Maintain an accurate prompt book, which includes all blocking, cues, and notes for the performance of the show.

• Distribute and explain job descriptions and scene changes to stage crew members if necessary.

• Supervise the props master and all technical crew members.

• Maintain a first aid kit and a stage manager's kit including items needed for quick repairs and flashlights if needed for crewmembers.

• Conduct a safety talk during tech week, giving a tour of the backstage area and explaining operating regulations for all cast and crewmembers.

• Require fight calls at each performance if appropriate.

• Obtain set plan from set designer and assist technical staff in laying out ground plan on stage or rehearsal space.

• Sweep the stage before each performance and complete a pre-show checklist.

• During the run of the production, check in all cast & crew members by 60 minutes before each performance, and call absentees if necessary

• Make ‘calls’ to the dressing rooms at “30 minutes” , “15 minutes”, “10 minutes”, “5 minutes”, and “places.

• The theatre must open 30 minutes in advance of curtain.

• Wait for go- ahead signal from the house manager before starting the performance and for starting Act II

• Operate light boards for the performance of the show and monitor spot light/backstage crew – etc.

• Take charge of the backstage area including managing cast and crew and their safety for the run of the show.

• Coordinate and attend strike.  You are the last to leave.

 

Transportation preferred – we have a parking lot at the theatre.

Please send email stating interest and resume to:  wendy@madkapproductions.com.

 

 

Click here for:

 

Auditions for The Tale of the Alergist's Wife

 

Auditions for A Chorus Line

 

Stage Managers

 

House Manager