SPRING AWAKENING to Hold Open Call for Deaf Actors in NYC Next Week

Hailing all deaf actors in NYC! BroadwayWorld just got word that the newly announced Broadway production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's SPRING AWAKENING will hold open auditions next Thursday, July 16, in New York City.

The show is looking for male and female deaf actors of all ethnicities, ages late teens - 50s, for principal and ensemble roles. Those auditioning must be fluent in ASL.

Scroll down for the casting call details!

Spring Awakening

Broadway Revival

Brooks Atkinson Theatre

AEA Production Contract

Producers: Ken Davenport, Cody Lassen, Hunter Arnold, Deaf West Theatre (Artistic Director David J. Kurs)

Director: Michael Arden

Choreographer: Spencer Liff

Composer: Duncan Sheik

Librettist/Lyricist: Steven Sater

General Manager: DTE Management/Ryan Conway

Casting: Telsey + Company/Craig Burns

Rehearsals: August 10

Previews: September 8

Opening: September 27

Closing: January 9

SEEKING:

Male and Female Deaf Actors of all ethnicities, ages late teens - 50s, for principal and ensemble roles. Must be fluent in ASL. Excellent and musical actors.

Open Call for Deaf Actors:

Thursday, July 16

Telsey + Company, 311 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor, between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue

10:30am - 12:30pm

Sign-in begins at 10:00am.

Do NOT arrive prior to 10:00am.

Prepare a brief monologue or brief ASL song. Bring a photo/resume stapled together. Equity and non-Equity actors are welcome to attend. For additional information e-mail springbwaycasting@gmail.com.

Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2007, will play a strictly limited Broadway engagement at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street) with previews beginning on Tuesday, September 8 and opening night set for Sunday, September 27. The show will run 18 weeks only, through Saturday, January 9, with no extension possible. It will be performed simultaneously in American Sign Language and spoken English by a cast of 27. Deaf West was last represented on Broadway with the triumphant production of Big River in 2003.

The innovative and acclaimed production of Spring Awakening recently completed an extended, critically-acclaimed engagement at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles where the production was expanded from its original, sold-out run at the Rosenthal Theatre in downtown L.A.

For more, visit www.springawakeningthemusical.com, or follow Spring Awakening on Twitter: @SpringBway, Instagram, or on Facebook.