Non-Equity Stage Manager needed for showcase production of CONTIGO, a dark and comedic new play by Columbia MFA Playwriting candidate, Paola Lázaro-Muñoz.

This is her thesis and will be performed at Signature Theater in April, where major industry will be invited by Columbia University (agents, artistic directors, publishers, and other key industry players). Her mentor is Stephen Adly Guirgis (Artistic Director of LAByrinth Theatre Company and award-winning playwright of THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT, IN ARABIA WE'D ALL BE KINGS, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, and JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN, and is currently in the process of presenting several different TV pilot scripts to HBO, CBS, and Showtime.), and the chair of the playwriting department at Columbia is notable playwright, Chuck Mee.

Stage Manager responsibilities include: attending all rehearsals and sending rehearsal reports to each department as needed, organizing actors’ schedules and communicating with each department, coordinating with design team for load-in, tech rehearsals, and strike, calling cues for the performances, and other standard SM duties, as needed.

Pay for this position is $100.00, plus invaluable experience working with a cast and creative team of professional actors, directors, and producers in the NYC theatre community, and exposure to high-profile performers and audience members in a beautiful theatre space. Confidentiality is a must.

Please see the rehearsal schedule below – only applicants with NEARLY FULL availability will be considered. Tech rehearsals and performances are an absolute must.

If interested, please contact Producer, Ali Skye Bennet, with cover letter, resume, and availability.

To read more about the Producer and/or the show festival, go to:
www.aliskyebennet.com or www.columbiastages.com


CONTIGO
by Paola Lázaro-Muñoz
Directed by Jerry Ruiz
Produced by Ali Skye Bennet
in association with Columbia University School for the Arts
Supervised by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Chair of Columbia University's MFA Playwriting Program: Chuck Mee


REHEARSALS:

April 4: 6-9pm
April 5: 3-6pm
April 6: 10am-1pm
April 10: 6-10pm
April 11: 5-7pm
April 12: 5-7pm
April 13: 5-7pm
April 14: 5-10:30pm
April 15: 5-11pm
April 16: 6-10pm
April 17: 6-9pm
April 18: Daytime, TBD
April 21: 6-10:30pm
April 22: 6-10:30pm
April 23: 6-10:30pm

TECH: April 24th at 7-11pm
April 25th at 9am-1pm

PERFORMANCES: April 25th at 2:30pm
April 28th at 2:30pm & 8:00pm

LOCATION:
The Studio Theater at The Pershing Square Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036


SHOW BLURB:
Sex, intimacy, and honesty went mud wrestling and are trying to get clean, but they just keep Olympic-diving into it. CONTIGO explores how two people, Tigo and Dena, bare all and desperately venture through all possible means of salvation in order to seek change and resuscitation after trauma. The play is partly based on a massacre that occurred in the town of Florida, Puerto Rico on New Year’s day, 2011. May those who passed away rest in peace, and may those who survived, live in it.


SYNOPSIS:
CONTIGO explores how two people, Tigo and Dena, desperately seek change and help each other heal after trauma. Tigo is a young man who believes in the good in people until his worldview is shattered after a traumatic experience that ends with the murder of various members of his family at the hand/torch of his uncle. The play also follows Dena, a young woman seeking change in her life after a night when her boyfriend of seven years took advantage of her sexually while they were drunk. Dena is desperately trying to get back into intimacy, but at the same time she is extremely terrified of it, so she seeks the help of the only man she’s not afraid of, her boyfriend’s best friend, Tigo.