<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 14pt;" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18pt;" style="font-size: 18pt;">Blank Canvas Theatre</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 14pt;" style="font-size: 14pt;">Auditions for</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 14pt;" style=""><br style=""></span></div><div style=""><div style="text-align: center;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 36pt;" mce_style="font-size: 36pt;">HEDWIG </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 36pt;" mce_style="font-size: 36pt;">AND THE ANGRY INCH</span></b></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><br style=""></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><br style=""></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18pt;" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" mce_style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Text by John Cameron Mitchell</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18pt;" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" mce_style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>Music & Lyrics by Stephen Trask</i></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><br></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;" style="font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" mce_style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="">Directed by </strong>Alison Garrigan</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;" style="font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" mce_style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="">Music Direction by </strong>Bradley Wyner</span></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"> </div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 150%;" style="">If Interested</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 150%;" style="">:</span></strong><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""> Email </span><a mce_style="font-size: 150%;" href="mailto:Patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com" mce_onclick="if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=Patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=Patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}; return false;" target="_blank" style="">Patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com</a><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""> to sign up for one of</span><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""> the below dates and include your </span><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">ideal time for auditioning. Otherwise we will just assign you the best available slot. We will do our best to accommodate you. </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><br></span></div><div mce_style="font-size: 70%;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><em style="">*If you can not make auditions please email us your headshot and resume for consideration. If possible submit a video audition for consideration. We do our best to see and consider additional people, but attending auditions is always ideal. </em></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><br style=""></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 150%;" style="">Audition Date</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 150%;" style="">:</span></strong><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style=""> Tuesday February 27 and Wednesday February 28th</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style=""><br style=""></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style=""><strong style="">Time</strong></span><strong style="">: </strong>7</span><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style="">:00pm-10:00pm <em style="">(Time slots will be assigned every 10 minutes)</em></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style=""><br style=""></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style=""><span mce_style="font-weight: bold;" style=""><b><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">What to prepare</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">:</span></b></span><strong style=""> </strong>Please prepare two contrasting 32 bars or short musical theatre songs in the style of the show. Please bring sheet music in the correct key. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring a headshot and resume to auditions. Headshots and resumes are appreciated, but not required. </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style=""><br style=""></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><strong style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">Performance Dates</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">:</span></strong> June 8th - June 23rd. Shows will be Thursday-Sunday. Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8pm. Sunday performances will be at 7pm. <em style="">(Show will open on a Friday night and close on a Saturday night)</em></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><br style=""></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><strong style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">Rehearsals</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">:</span></strong> Begin May 13th. Rehearsals will be Sundays-Thursdays. Typically 7pm-10pm, though Sundays are usually 6pm-10pm. </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><br style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style=""><strong style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">Pay</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">:</span><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style=""> </span></strong></span>Blank Canvas Theatre dedicates 20% of the net profit to the cast of each show. The cast splits this evenly.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><em style="">*At this time there are no AEA Contracts for this show. However we may explore the option if needed.</em></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""><br style=""><strong style=""><span mce_style="text-decoration: underline;" style="">Location</span>:</strong> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">Blank Canvas Theatre </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">1305 West 78<sup style="">th</sup> Street, Suite 211 (at 78th Street Studios) </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">Cleveland, OH 44102 </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">(Click <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/directions/" mce_href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/directions/" target="_blank" style="">here</a> for directions or visit our website at <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/" mce_href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/" target="_blank" style="">www.blankcanvastheatre.com</a>)</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""> </span></div><h2 style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">The Story</span></h2><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 18px;" style="">Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the tale of how a “slip of a girlyboy” from communist East Berlin, Hanschel, becomes the “internationally ignored song stylist” known as Hedwig after a botched sex change operation. The show daringly breaks the fourth wall, as Hedwig directly tells the audience of her past tribulations and heartbreak in the form of an extended monologue paired with rock songs. With a little help from her band and her back-up singer Yitzhak, Hedwig examines her quest for her other half, for love, and ultimately for her identity. Featuring a groundbreaking rock musical score by Stephen Trask, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is hilarious, harrowing, and essentially uplifting for anyone who’s ever felt different.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><em style=""><strong style=""><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style=""><br style=""></span></strong></em></div><h2 style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">Character Breakdown </span></h2><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><em style=""><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style="">*</span><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;" style="">The age range and gender for each character is flexible and all ethnicities and body types will be considered. Artists of all ethnic, cultural, sexual and gender identities are strongly encouraged to audition. </span></em><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;" style="">We encourage all LGBTQ and non-binary artists to audition</span><span style="">.</span><em style=""><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;" style=""> Accents do not need to be perfected by auditions but we would like to see you attempt them. A dialect coach will be available for the production.</span></em></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong style=""> </strong></div><div id="_mcePaste" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"></div><div id="_mcePaste" mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong style="">Hedwig:</strong> <em style="">(Male/They/Them, 20-50. Rock Tenor b4)</em> East German rock singer and front woman of The Angry Inch; formerly Hansel, a slip of a girly boy who grew up in communist East Berlin, fell in love with an American GI; became Hedwig and underwent a botched sex change operation in order to marry and move to the states; glamorous, charismatic and always commanding even when at her most bitchy or vulnerable; has had high highs and low lows; must have a convincing East German accent; actor must be able to dexterously shift from persona to persona (Hedwig's mother, husband, rock icon ex-lover, Tommy Gnosis).</div><div id="_mcePaste" mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"> </div><div id="_mcePaste" mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><strong style="">Yitzhak:</strong> <em style="">(Female/They/Them, 20-50. Mezzo-Soprano belt to G) </em>Hedwig's Croatian male husband and roadie/back-up singer; he is Hedwig's vocal sparring partner; theirs is an emotional and at times abusive relationship; the actress playing Yitzhak should be believable as a butch male but one that chafes at the bonds of traditional masculinity and longs to explore his feminine, creative side; very strong singer with rock and roll vibe; must have a convincing Balkan(Eastern European) accent.</div><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"> </div><div mce_style="text-align: center;" style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;" style=""> If you have any questions feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com" mce_onclick="if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}; return false;" target="_blank" style="">patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com</a>. We look forward to seeing you at auditions!</span></div> </span></body></html>