Phipps Center Hiring Production Staff for 2025-2026 Season
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The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, WI is now hiring production staff for our 2025-2026 season. Below is a brief synopsis of each show and production staff vacancies along with stipends. Please email your resume to Production Director, Mark C. Koski at [email protected] and express which production(s) and position(s) you are interested in. Please respond by 1/31/25.
Coppélia
Based on the classic ballet originally choreographed in 1870, Coppélia is a family-friendly ballet comedy. Set in an Austrian village, the doll maker, Dr. Coppélius has made a beautiful mechanical doll that he has named Coppélia and she sits on his balcony reading her book. However, she is so realistic that everyone mistakes her for a young girl, possibly Dr. Coppélius’s daughter, and the young Franz even falls in love with her, much to the annoyance of his fiancée, Swanhilda.
Production Dates: July 25th, 2025-August 3rd, 2025
Venue: John H. Potter Theater
Producing Council: Dance Council
Directorial Staff
Stage Manager $750
Deck Captain (SR) $500
Deck Captain (SL) $500
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,200
Lighting Designer $1,200
Costume Designer $1,750
Props Designer $750
Sound Designer $1,000
Scenic Charge $1,000
Miss Nelson is Missing
Miss Nelson can't control her crazy classroom because she's just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! With the Big Test approaching, the kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they'll do anything -- including hiring a private eye -- to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.
Production Dates: September 12th, 2025-October 5th, 2025
Venue: Black Box Theater
Producing Council: Children's Theater Council
Directorial Staff
Director $1,200
Fight Choreographer $500
Stage Manager $750
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,000
Lighting Designer $1,000
Sound Designer $1,000
Scenic Charge $1,000
Little Shop of Horrors
The meek floral assistant Seymour Krelborn stumbles across a new breed of plant he names "Audrey II" - after his coworker crush. This foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore promises unending fame and fortune to the down-and-out Krelborn as long as he keeps feeding it, BLOOD. Over time, though, Seymour discovers Audrey II's out-of-this-world origins and intent toward global domination!
Production Dates: October 10th, 2025-November 2nd, 2025
Venue: John H. Potter Theater
Producing Council: Drama Council
Directorial Staff
Director $1,750
Choreographer $1,500
Music Director $1,250
Fight Choreographer $500
Intimacy Director $500
Asst. Stage Manager $500
Deck Captain (SR) $500
Deck Captain (SL) $500
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,500
Puppet Designer $1,000
Lighting Designer $1,200
Costume Designer $1,700
Props Designer $1,000
Sound Designer $1,000
Sound Mixer $1,000
Fly Line Operator $300
Scenic Charge $1,750
It's a Wonderful Life
The saga of George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family obligation and civic duty, whose guardian angel has to descend on Christmas Eve to save him from despair and to remind him—by showing him what the world would have been like had he never been born—that his has been, after all, a wonderful life.
Production Dates: November 28th, 2025-December 21st, 2025
Venue: John H. Potter Theater
Producing Council: Drama Council
Directorial Staff
Director $1,750
Fight Choreographer $500
Intimacy Director $500
Stage Manager $1,000
Asst. Stage Manager $500
Deck Captain (SR) $500
Deck Captain (SL) $500
Child Wrangler $750
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,500
Lighting Designer $1,200
Costume Designer $1,500
Props Designer $1,000
Sound Designer $1,000
Fly Line Operator $300
Scenic Charge $1,750
Clue: High School Edition
Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. Led by Wadsworth–the butler, Miss Scarlet, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, and Colonel Mustard race to find the killer as the body count stacks up. Clue is the comedy whodunit that will leave both cult fans and newcomers in stitches as they try to figure out…WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT!
Production Dates: February 20th, 2026-March 8th, 2026
Venue: John H. Potter Theater
Producing Council: Children's Theatre Council
Directorial Staff
Director $1,750
Fight Choreographer $500
Intimacy Director $500
Asst. Stage Manager $500
Deck Captain (SR) $500
Deck Captain (SL) $500
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,500
Lighting Designer $1,200
Sound Designer $1,000
Fly Line Operator $300
Scenic Charge $1,750
Phipps Dance Company
This non-competitive performance-based dance company is made up of auditioned dancers in grades 9 through 12. The Company performs at a variety of events around the Twin Cities area and ends its year with an annual concert performance at the Phipps in April. This year the Company is made up of 17 dancers and is led by Director Christina Leines and Associate Director Stephanie Campbell.
Production Dates: March 20th, 2026-March 29th, 2026
Venue: Black Box Theater
Producing Council: Dance Council
Directorial Staff
Stage Manager $500
Design Staff
Lighting Designer $1,200
Sound Designer $750
Phipps Dance Recitals
Production Dates: May 16th, 2026-May 17th, 2026
Venue: John H. Potter Theater
Producing Council: Dance Council
Directorial Staff
Stage Manager $500
Design Staff
Lighting Designer $1,200
Sound Designer $750
Deathtrap
Comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell that has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college—a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway smash. Sidney’s plan, devised with his wife’s help, is to offer collaboration to the student for co-credit. Or is it? DEATHTRAP provides twists and turns of devilish cleverness, and offers hilariously sudden shocks in such abundance that audiences will be spellbound until the very last moment.
Production Dates: April 10th, 2026-April 27th, 2026
Venue: John H. Potter Theater
Producing Council: Drama Council
Directorial Staff
Director $1,200
Fight Choreographer $500
Intimacy Director $500
Stage Manager $1,000
Deck Captain (SR) $500
Deck Captain (SL) $500
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,200
Lighting Designer $1,000
Costume Designer $1,000
Props Designer $1,000
Sound Designer $1,000
Scenic Charge $1,500
Judy Moody and Stink and the Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure Hunt
When the Moody family takes a weekend trip to "Artichoke" Island, third-grader Judy and her little brother Stink don't know what to expect. But what they find is a pirate, and he sends them on a treasure hunt, racing against rivals Tall Boy and Smart Girl! Can they find the hidden clues, crack the secret codes, and solve the tricky puzzles before time runs out? A funny, adventurous play for young audiences based on the Judy Moody books by Megan McDonald.
Production Dates: May 1st, 2026-May 17th, 2026
Venue: Black Box Theater
Producing Council: Children's Theatre Council
Directorial Staff
Director $1,200
Fight Choreographer $500
Stage Manager $1,000
Deck Captain $500
Design Staff
Scenic Designer $1,000
Lighting Designer $1,000
Sound Designer $1,000
Scenic Charge $1,000