Description:

The Home Creative Co. are holding auditions for "Spring Awakening"
Director/Producer: Tiger Khokunthod
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Analisa Celeste
Music Director: Brady McNeil

WHO: The Home Creative Co. is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion while promoting cultural awareness and sensitivity. We encourage performers of all races and ethnicities, gender and sexual identities, ages, body types, and abilities, to submit/attend every audition. Seeking strong actors that are 18+ years of age. Local cast only (no housing or travel provided or stipend).

WHEN: In-person auditions will be on Wednesday, December 6th and Thursday 7th from 6-9 pm.
Callbacks will be In-Person (Invitation Only), Friday, December 8th from 6-9 pm.

Rehearsals begin the week of January 21st, 2-4 rehearsals a week dependent on schedules meeting at Judson University
Dates:
Tech/Dress March 18th-21st,
Performances March 22, 23, 29, 30 @7PM 24 & 31 @2PM

WHERE: Auditions/Rehearsals: Judson University, Alice and Edward Thompson Center (Hall), Room 112

WHAT: In-Person Auditions:
1. Prepare 32 bars of an audition song in the style of the show. An accompanist will NOT be provided. Bring your phone to play from a speaker (will be provided)
(a capella is not preferred)
or
Video Submission - All Video Submissions are due by 9 pm Wednesday, December 6th.
1. Fill out the audition form
2. The video should be submitted as either a direct YouTube or Google Drive link.
*walk-ins will be accepted

*This production DOES contain staged sexual content. These scenes will be choreographed by an intimacy designer. This production DOES contain themes of mental illness, depression, and death.

CASTING:
YOUNG ADULTS
GIRLS
Wendla Bergman (Pop Soprano) 18+. A sweet, but naive young girl who is trapped in her family's unwillingness to teach her about the adult world, but with every passing day, she grows bolder and more curious about her body. Both vulnerable and a willing participant in her evolution. There is possibility for partial or implied nudity and sexually explicit conduct for this staging. An intimacy Coordinator will be provided for this process.

Ilse Neumann (Pop Soprano/Belter) 18+. A misguided young girl who runs away from an abusive home to live in an artists' colony. Kind and resilient while also broken and stuck in a cycle of abuse. There is a strong emotional connection between Ilse and Moritz; perhaps in another life they could have been happy together.

Martha Bessell (Alto/Belter) 18+. One of Wendla's friends who is abused by her father, and she keeps the worst of the abuse to herself. She has a crush on Moritz, and is chastised by the other girls for it. Best friend of Anna and protective of her.

Anna (Mezzo-Soprano) 18+. A kind school girl and Martha's best friend. She is more aware of injustice than the other girls and recognizes that what happens to Wendla is wrong. Has a secret crush on Martha.

Thea (Alto) 18+. A confrontational school girl and Wendla's best friend. Outwardly believes the adults but secretly questions the blind faith demanded of her. Does not want to rock the boat.

Ensemble Girl (Various Voice Parts) 18+

BOYS
Melchior Gabor (Bari-Tenor) 18+ A headstrong, smart and charismatic schoolboy. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books and is able to see the corruption in society. His radical points of view about most things are correct but misunderstood. He falls in love with Wendla. There is possibility for partial or implied nudity and sexually explicit conduct for this staging. An intimacy Coordinator will be provided for this process.

Moritz Stiefel (Tenor) 18+. Melchior's intense and nervous best friend. He has an overwhelming confusion relating to sexual feelings, which seems comedic at first, but quickly develops into a serious issue for him. The system has failed him. Highly sensitive and aware of his inability to fit into the system. Feels like a failure. One of the childhood four: Wendla, Melchior, Moritz and Ilse.

Hänschen Rilow (Tenor) 18+. A cunning and attractive schoolboy, who manipulates the other students, especially Ernst, whom he seduces. Like Melchior, he also appears to be very intelligent, but uses his knowledge in favor of the system.

Ernst Robel (Bari-Tenor) 18+. A sweet and naive classmate. He is Hänschen's love interest. Georg Zirschnitz (Tenor) 18+. A hormonal schoolboy who lusts after his older, busty piano teacher.

Otto Lämmermeier (Bari-Tenor) 18+. Another schoolboy who has a disturbing dream about his mother.

Ensemble Boy (Various Voice Parts) 18+

THE ADULTS
*Each adult will double as multiple roles.

Adult 1 (Mezzo-Soprano) Female, 40+. Frau Bergman: Wendla's mother; Fraulein Knuppeldick: an associate of Headmaster Knochenbruch Frau Bessell: Martha's mother

Adult 2 (Mezzo-Soprano) Female, 40+. Fräulein Grossebüstenhalter: Georg's piano teacher; Fanny Gabor: Melchior's mother

Adult 3 (Bari-Tenor) Male, 40+. Herr Sonnenstich: a schoolteacher; Herr Stiefel: Moritz's father; Schmidt: the abortionist; Herr Neumann: Ilse's Father

Note: although the show presents characters who are traditionally white, cis-gendered, and able-bodied, we are excited to work with actors who do not necessarily identify with all of the above.