Show: DEAR EVAN HANSEN
Theater: Steel River Playhouse
Theater Website: https://www.steelriver-playhouse.org/
Theater Phone: (610) 970-1199
Start date of auditions: 07/25/2026
Auditions for DEAR EVAN HANSEN are here!
Steel River Playhouse is looking for performers ages 14 and up to bring this incredible musical to life on our stage this fall.
Saturday, 7/25, 10:00 AM -1:00 PM
Sunday, 7/26, 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Sign up today:
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Location:
Steel River Playhouse
245 East High Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
610-970-1199
MUST BE 14+ TO AUDITION
Performances:
10/9, 10/10, 10/16, 10/17, 10/23, 10/24 @ 7:00 PM
10/11, 10/17, 10/18, 10/24, 10/25 @ 2:00 PM
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begins to unravel, though, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.
Director: Alicia Brisbois
Musical Director: Kyle Ryan
All actors 18 years of age and older must have the following three clearances:
PA Child Abuse, PA Criminal History, Federal Criminal History*
*use code: 1KG738
AUDITION INFORMATION
Audition Dates:
Saturday, 7/25 10:00 AM -1:00 PM
Sunday, 7/26 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Video submission deadline is 6PM Saturday, July 25th, ONLY if you cannot make auditions in person.
For Initial Auditions, please prepare:
-Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue
-and 32-bars of a contemporary musical theatre song (pop-rock style preferred). Songs from the show are acceptable.
Please bring sheet music. An accompanist will be provided.
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Callbacks
Monday, 7/27 6:00-9:30 PM
Rehearsal Schedule
Tuesdays, Thursdays: 6:30-9:30 PM
Saturdays: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
Tuesdays
7/28,
8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25
9/1, 0/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29
Thursdays
7/30
8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27
9/3, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24
Saturdays
8/1, 8/8, 8/15, 8/22, 8/29
9/5, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26
Technical Rehearsals
All actors must be present for all tech rehearsals and performances.
Tech Weekend
Saturday, 10/3 10:00 AM-10:00 PM
Sunday, 10/4 10:00 AM -10:00 PM Full Dress Rehearsal @ 7:00 PM
Tech Week- All Dress Rehearsals will start at 7:00 PM
Actor Call time is at 5:30 PM
Tuesday, 10/6
Wednesday, 10/7
Thursday, 10/8
Character Breakdown
Evan Hansen – Smart, sincere, and excruciatingly self-conscious, Evan prefers to hover in the background, a supporting player in his own life, too afraid to step forward into the spotlight and risk ridicule or, what might be worse, no one noticing him at all.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: G2
Heidi Hansen – Evan’s mother. Overworked and stretched too thin, Heidi loves her son fiercely but fears they have begun to grow apart. She is prepared to do anything to repair the damage.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Zoe Murphy – Sensitive and sophisticated, with a sharp sense of humor, Zoe could care less about the status games and popularity rites of high school. She feels a terrible ambivalence over her brother’s death.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Connor Murphy – An angry, disaffected loner, Connor has been a troubled kid for as long as anyone can remember, an enigma and a source of endless consternation to his long-suffering parents.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: G#4
Vocal range bottom: C3
Cynthia Murphy – Connor and Zoe’s mother. To Evan, she seems to be the perfect mother, nurturing, available, and willing to talk about anything. To her own children, it’s a bit more complicated.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Larry Murphy – Connor and Zoe’s father. Though often tense and taciturn, Larry shows a different face to the world, representing for Evan the dad he always wished for: strong, confident, and more than anything, reliable, someone to be counted on.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: Bb2
Jared Kleinman – Droll and sarcastic, Jared covers his own insecurities with a well-practiced swagger and a know-it-all arrogance.
Gender: male
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: D3
Alana Beck – Earnest to a fault, prone to melodrama, Alana hides a deeper loneliness beneath an ever-present smile and an almost aggressive friendliness.
Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Please contact Production Manager, Stacey Michaud, with additional questions stacey.michaud@steelriver-playhouse.org
