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 Stage Management Portfolio 


Nora Murphy

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Theatrical SM + ASM Work


Anna in the Tropics
by Nilo Cruz
American Players Theatre
Stage Managment Assistant
Summer 2025
Stage Manager: Ryan Barrett
Director: Robert Ramirez
Costume Designer: Raquel Adorno
Scenic Designer: Josafath Reynoso
Lighting Designer: Jason Lynch
Sound Designer: Willow James

Triney Sandoval & Elizabeth Ledo. Center: Elizabeth Ledo, Melisa Pereyra & Phoebe González. Cast of Anna in the Tropics. Photos by Michael Brosilow.
A Midsummer Night’s Dram
by William Shakespeare
American Players Theatre 
Stage Managment Assistant
Summer 2025
Stage Manager: Rivka Kelly
Director: David Daniel
Costume Designer: Daniele Tyler Mathews
Scenic Designer: Nathan Stuber
Lighting Designer: Michael Peterson
Sound Designer: Sartje Pickett


Casey Hoekstra, Jim DeVita, Joshua M. Castille. Molly Martinez-Collins, James Ridge, Nate Burger, Sam Luis Massaro, Colin Covert & Sun Mee Chomet. Joshua M. Castille, Xavier Edward King, Maggie Cramer, Samantha Newcomb, Josh Krause & Casey Hoekstra. Photos by Michael Brosilow.
Harry Clarke
by David Cale
Two Crows Theatre Company
Stage Manager
January 2025
Director: Marcus Truschinski
Costume Designer: Robert Doyle
Lighting Designer: Lea Branyan
Sound Designer: Ben Feiner

Nate Burger. Photos by Hannah Anderson
Mean Girls
Book by Tina Fey
River Valley High School
Stage Management Advisor/Showrunner December 2024
Director: Sara Young
Music Director: Becky Schinker
Choreographer: Michael Stanek
Lighting Designer: Lea Branyan
Sound Designer: David Sabbagh

Cast of Mean Girls. Photos by Hannah Anderson
The Thin Place
by Lucas Hnath
Two Crows Theatre Company
Assistant Stage Manager February 2024
Stage Manager: Rivka Kelly
Director: Jake Penner
Costume Designer: Robert Doyle
Lighting Designer: Lea Branyan
Sound Designer: Joe Cerqua

Samantha Newcomb. Elizabeth Reese, Mhari Sandoval, Robert Doyle. Cast of The Thin Place. Photos by Jonathan Popp

Music SM Work

Various Classical & New Music Concerts
Bowdoin International Music Festival (BIMF)
 Production Assistant & Stage Manager
Summer 2022

BIMF: Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music - Agata Zubel: MONO-DRUM
This was the first piece of a concert. We roped off the front row and I pushed the pingpong balls off the stage before resetting the stage for the next performer.

Luke Rinderknecht. Photos by Niles Singer
BIMF: Music from Copland House | Okebholo: Fractured Water This was one piece that came at the center of a full concert. It required containers of water to be carried on stage as well as a stage set-up change to be completed.


BIMF: Subscription Series Concerts
For the summer concert series there were three to four concerts a week. Each concert had a morning dress rehearsal when we would learn the final stage needs, spike the stage, and speak with performers about their preferences. Stage changes were done by only the stage manager when possible, if an additonal stage hand was needed a member of the recording/livestream team would assist for the change as directed by the stage manager.


Various Classical & Jazz Performances
Lawrence University Conservatory (LU Con)
2019-2022
LU Con: Lawrence Symphony Orchestra


LU Con: Guest Artist Series - Dreamer’s Circus
Lawrence brings in a series of guest artist to the concservatory during the school year. Stage mangers arrive 1-hour prior to the performance to learn the stage set-up and needs from the group. The stage set up and any changes during the performance are done by the stage manager during the performance (any audio needs are set up by the audio engineer, bust stage managers  do any changes during the performance invovling audio equipement).


LU Con: Hybrid Orchestra Rehearsals
During the pandemic I assisted the orchestra director with running his hybrid orchestra rehearsals. This entailed ensuring all students arrived to the Zoom meeting, checking that the audio from the live students was reaching the remote students, screensharing the score and following along when notes were given, taking recordings of the live studnts for students to pally along with on their own (rehearsals were kept per univeristy COVID-19 mitigation policy), and generally acting as the directors assistant with any other tasks during the rehearsal.



© Nora Murphy 2025