Our 2025 Season:

The Effect
A Year With Frog and Toad
Baby (2021 Revised Version)
The Mad Ones
Laundry and Bourbon

One of the Midwest's oldest professional summer companies, Canterbury celebrates its 57th anniversary in 2025.

The Stage Manager facilitates production and performs the typical stage management functions for all season productions, and works with the Company Manager to supervise daily production operations in the absence of senior artistic staff. Proven leadership experience is required.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, managing scripts and music, taping out sets, taking blocking notation and notes, maintaining rehearsal logs, coordinating communications between directors and designers/technical staff, supervising scene changes, and coordinating production activities for the directors.

Usually this position is filled by a graduate student, an upper level undergraduate, or a working professional who can afford to work for the experience and the modest salary offered. This person also fits into the summer camp atmosphere, and schedule, of typical Midwest summer stock.

Housing is included--usually shared bedrooms in houses or apartments.

The experience is typical of summer stock---resume building, experience, networking, and rewarding. Owing to our proximity to Chicago, many company members use Canterbury as a jumping-off point to move and pursue careers there. Also, Canterbury is located a short distance from the beautiful beaches of Lake Michigan.