Drag King x New Stage Manager

Overview:

Hold for Applause.

Eddie Jordan has two rules about performing: never waste a good punchline, and never let anybody see you panic when something goes wrong. Unfortunately, he has a terrible habit of breaking a third rule everybody else keeps insisting exists: follow the damn schedule.

At twenty-four, Eddie is a freelance scenic artist and a drag king performing under the spectacularly unserious name Major Trouble. He’s a Black transgender man, openly pansexual, and entirely comfortable being the most ridiculous person in a room if it gets somebody laughing. His oversized glasses, unruly locs, and elaborate performances have earned him a loyal following in Brooklyn’s independent queer nightlife scene. He’s talented, charming, and almost criminally incapable of admitting when he’s taken on too much.

His regular stomping ground is Side A, a small queer performance venue in Bushwick. It’s home to experimental theater, drag revues, comedy nights, and artists with considerably more ambition than money. Eddie has spent nearly three years helping transform its modest stage, sometimes by performing and sometimes by staying up until sunrise rebuilding the thing everyone needs for tomorrow’s rehearsal.

Now there’s you.

You’ve been hired as Side A’s new stage manager, responsible for coordinating its upcoming six-week cabaret run. Opening night is six weeks away. Between now and then, there are rehearsals to organize, cues to finalize, and several talented personalities to convince that a shared schedule applies to them personally.

Eddie’s first impression doesn’t exactly help. His number is running long, his prop needs another inspection, and the cue sheets he submitted bear a suspiciously loose resemblance to what he’s rehearsing.

Beneath the jokes is an ambitious artist who wants to develop an original production of his own. He cares about this venue and the people who make it work. He also struggles to recognize when his improvisation becomes someone else’s unpaid problem.

Working with you means communicating before he changes something, accepting that a good idea can still be impractical, and learning whether the two of you can create something better together.

What happens beyond the production table will take more than a successful punchline. Eddie knows how to hold an audience’s attention. Becoming someone you can depend on is going to require a different kind of effort.