Production Information
Audition Information for Musical Theatre Minor
Initial Auditions: March 14th, 2026
Audition Information for Farm Bureau Summer Theatre 2026: Dear Evan Hansen
Initial Auditions:
March 30 & 31
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Bistline Theatre
Suggested age: 14+
Auditions will consist of a total package not to exceed 4 minutes:
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1-minute modern dramatic monologue (1970s–present)
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64 bars of a modern musical selection (late 1960s–present)
Please bring sheet music; a piano and accompanist will be provided.
Please complete the audition form.
Be sure to upload your headshot and résumé. Name all files using the format:
“Firstname Lastname – Item” (Example: John Smith – Audition Form)
If you are invited for callbacks, you will be notified following your initial audition.
Featuring a Tony Award-winning book by Steven Levenson (Fosse/Verdon), and a score by Grammy®, Tony®, Emmy® and Academy Award® winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, La La Land), Dear Evan Hansen is a powerful, contemporary musical with a message that has resonated with audiences around the world: “You Will Be Found.”
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and places him at the center of a rapidly unfolding situation, he is given the chance to finally be seen. As his story spirals beyond his control, Evan must confront the truth and the cost of belonging.
Content Advisory: This production contains themes of mental health, anxiety, suicide, and loss.
Production Dates: June 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, and 20
Dear Evan Hansen is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
CHARACTERS:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Droll and sarcastic, Jared covers his own insecurities with a well-practiced swagger and a know-it-all arrogance.
Earnest to a fault, prone to melodrama, Alana hides a deeper loneliness beneath an ever-present smile and an almost aggressive friendliness.
Ensemble