ABOUT
IRON CROW THEATRE
WHO WE ARE
Iron Crow Theatre is an award-winning, professional, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization and Baltimore’s queer theatre. Iron Crow Theatre produces queer theatre for a queer city, celebrating the renegade and the unorthodox in all of us. Iron Crow Theatre welcomes everyone. You do not need to identify as queer to work at Iron Crow Theatre.
OUR VISION
Iron Crow Theatre strives to become Baltimore's next professional Equity theatre, producing theatrical work of the highest artistic quality in hopes of offering artists and administrators alike with competitive pay, access to the Equity Membership Candidate program, and a creative environment founded on professionalism that is both safe and inclusive to all.
SAFETY
Iron Crow Theatre is committed to producing work of the highest artistic quality and to a rehearsal and performance process that upholds the highest standards of professionalism; modeling ourselves after Equity theatres, we continue to admire greatly. We are devoted to fostering both a culture and an environment that embraces diversity and inclusion, promotes safety and well-being, and allows our artists to do some of their best work here - free from harassment of any kind.
When working on a production at Iron Crow Theatre, all cast and crew members receive Safer Spaces training to ensure a professional harassment-free workplace. In addition, Iron Crow Theatre’s staff, directors, and stage managers have been trained in a variety of best practices as it pertains to trauma-informed practices and staging intimacy by Theatrical Intimacy Education. Furthermore, an Intimacy Coordinator is hired for each production requiring scenes of intimacy. In addition, members of our staff have been certified in mental health first-aid by The National Council for Mental Wellbeing.
Iron Crow Theatre utilizes the Equity deputy system for all productions and has a member of the board of directors serve as an ombudsperson providing direct access to additional support at the highest levels of the organization.
Regarding Covid-19, Iron Crow Theatre has a certified COVID-19 Compliance Officer who ensures our practices follow the requirements of Actors’ Equity Association, scientific fact, and the latest CDC recommendations. Iron Crow Theatre requires all actors and crew members to be fully vaccinated, boosted, and agreeable to ongoing testing in order to work on a production.
The 24/25
season lineup
THE 2024-2025 SEASON OF TRANSGRESSION
The Season of Transgression has a little something for everyone: outrageous comedy, erotic thriller, Baltimore’s favorite Pride tradition, AND, a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT celebrating our 15th anniversary!
An Act of God
By David Javerbaum
Directed by Sean Elias
Rehearsals begin on November 11, 2024.
Performances began on January 10, 2025, and end on January 26, 2025, at Baltimore Theatre Project.
Synopsis: God is coming, and he/she/they are pissed! Get ready for a night of celestial comedy as David Javerbaum’s delightfully sassy, 90-minute romp brings the Almighty — accompanied by two fabulous angels — to Baltimore for a divine intervention of epic proportions!
All roles are cast at this time.
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
Music and lyrics by Stephen Trask
Book by John Cameron Mitchell
Directed by Sean Elias
Rehearsals begin on January 27, 2025.
Performances run March 14 - 16, 2025 at the M&T Bank Exchange at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, home of the historic Hippodrome.
Synopsis: This groundbreaking award-winning hit, follows Hedwig Schmidt, an East German rock singer with a botched sex-change operation that left her with "an angry inch." Performed as a rock concert with comedic monologues, the show tells Hedwig’s story of meeting Luther, an American GI, who convinces her to change her sex to leave East Berlin. Abandoned in Kansas after the botched operation, Hedwig turns to music, and mentors Tommy Speck, who later steals her songs and rises to fame. Determined to find closure, she follows Tommy’s tour, performing next door. It’s a rocking ride, funny, touching, and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile.
Currently casting.
How to Transcend a Happy Marriage
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ann Turiano
Rehearsals begin on February 17, 2025.
Performances begin on April 11, 2025, and end on April 27, 2025, at Baltimore Theatre Project.
Synopsis: Overflowing with subversive enchantment, Sarah Ruhl’s How to Transcend a Happy Marriage takes you on a wild ride through the uncharted territories of love and desire, polyamory, throuples, and matrimony. This provocative play combines absurd domestic comedy with erotic magical realism, unraveling the blurred lines between strangers, friends, and lovers.
Currently casting.
The Rocky Horror Show — Pride Edition!
By Richard O’Brien
Directed by Sean Elias
Rehearsals begin on April 21, 2025.
Performances begin on June 13, 2025, and end on June 29, 2025, at the Baltimore Theatre Project.
Synopsis: Iron Crow Theatre’s is back again for Pride 2025! In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
All roles are cast at this time.
LOGISTICS & COMPENSATION
REHEARSALS
Rehearsals take place during the week (7:00 PM - 10:30 PM) and on one weekend day (11:00 AM - 4:30 PM) in Baltimore, MD. Exact rehearsal dates and times are specific to production needs and the availability of the cast. In the past, rehearsals have not taken place on Fridays or Sundays.
COMPENSATION
Iron Crow Theatre's compensation rates are competitive amongst small professional theatres in Baltimore. Compensation for Non-Equity performers ranges from a multi-hundred dollar to thousand-dollar plus stipend based on role and budget capacity. Compensation for Actors' Equity members is dictated by the requirements of Actors’ Equity.
HOUSING & TRANSPORTATION
Housing and transportation are not provided.
PERFORMANCES
Performances take place at the historic Baltimore Theatre Project located across from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at 45 W. Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
AUDITION
DATES
& TIMES
STEP 1
ATTEND AN IN-PERSON AUDITION OR SUBMIT A DIGITAL AUDITION
SUBMITTING A DIGITAL AUDITION
Digital auditions may be submitted. Submit your headshot, résumé, and audition link in one email to casting@ironcrowtheatre.org
Please note Iron Crow Theatre is a small professional non-profit theatre and does not have the financial resources to provide housing or transportation. You must be able to secure housing and transportation independently. Do not submit if you cannot secure housing and/or transportation to, from, and in Baltimore, MD. Please review the compensation information above.
STEP 2
ATTEND THE IN-PERSON CALLBACK
IN-PERSON CALLBACKS
Callbacks are by invitation and held only in Baltimore, MD immediately following auditions on November 11.
If requested, all invited actors (even those who submitted digitally) must attend in-person callbacks to be considered for casting.
Baltimore, MD
Monday, November 11, 2024
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Chapel 1503
7 S. Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD, 21231
WHAT
TO PREPARE
SEEKING
Professional Non-Equity performers ages 18 and up of any gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, race, or ethnicity. We are working diligently to continue our practice of pursuing gender-flexible and multi-racial casting. You do not need to identify as queer in order to audition or be cast.
WHAT TO PREPARE
Please prepare one monologue from a published piece of theatre and/or 32 bars of a pop-rock song, and/or a contemporary musical theatre selection from the pop/rock genre of your choice that best shows off your range and ability. If singing, please be prepared to use a track. A Bluetooth speaker will be provided. Both selections (in any order and/or cut) should not exceed three minutes in length. If auditioning virtually, please submit all materials, including a headshot and resume, in one email to casting@ironcrowtheatre.org. Portfolios/personal websites and/or dance reels may also be submitted for review — no physical mailings.
QUESTIONS
Please email us at casting@ironcrowtheatre.org or call us at 443.637.CROW (2769) with any questions.