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Stage Manager for our 2027 TYA School Tour

The Fools are an Ottawa-based professional theatre company known for our annual Shakespeare in the Park tour that travels to over 40 parks across Eastern Ontario throughout the summer months for Pay-What-You-Can admission, and their spring Fools in Schools, 2-week tour to local Ottawa High Schools.

Our TYA production features a cast of 3 actors playing multiple characters. We are searching for a Stage Manager who enjoys working in a variety of performance spaces that change every day, can facilitate dozens of quick changes, is comfortable managing and assisting with the load-in, set-up, set up and strike of the small set in different school spaces, and has a sense of humour (we are Fools after all)!

Priority will be given to Equity cardholders, though applicants need not be CAEA members (Canadian Actors' Equity Association). Applicants are required to have a valid driver's license and be comfortable driving a cargo van. 

Dates:
Prep days: March 19-20, 2027
Rehearsal dates: March 22nd - April 3rd, 2027
Tour dates: April 5th - April 17th, 2027

The Stage Manager will be engaged under the Canadian Theatre Agreement at the TYA rate, with 2 prep days prior to rehearsals.

Accessibility: The space where we are holding our rehearsals is completely accessible, free of physical barriers. Due to the nature of the tour and the changing venues, we cannot guarantee the accessible nature of each location.

Interested? Please send a CV and a brief note about why you’re interested in working with the Fools to General Manager Caity Smyck at generalmanager@fools.ca. Submissions are due by midnight Sunday, November 1st, 2026.

a Company of Fools encourages submissions from artists of all backgrounds regardless of culture, race, colour, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Kate McArthur, Leslie Cserepy, and Andrea Massoud in Romeo & Juliet (2019)