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The Audition

The Audition. Types of Auditions. Open Audition. Closed Audition. For professional nonunion actors The entire school student body Open to everyone. For professional union actors only For certain school students (drama students, drama club members, ITS members) A specific group of people.

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The Audition

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  1. The Audition

  2. Types of Auditions Open Audition Closed Audition • For professional nonunion actors • The entire school student body • Open to everyone • For professional union actors only • For certain school students (drama students, drama club members, ITS members) • A specific group of people

  3. Auditions, Tryouts, & Readings • Prepared Audition • Textual Tryout • Cold Reading • Improvisational Audition

  4. Prepared Audition • May used rehearsed material • Includes memorized lines and actions • Monologues/Duets • Serious/funny • Not material from the play

  5. Textual Tryout • Material from the printed play • A scene or monologue selected by the director • You memorize the material before the audition • Same as prepared audition, but with material from the play

  6. Cold Reading • Use unfamiliar material • Read with imagination, feeling, and confidence • Director wants to see how you interpret the material

  7. Improvisational Audition • Improv a scene around assigned character and situation • How well do you adapt to the situation • How well do you establish a character

  8. Audition Tips/Techniques • Read the Information Sheet!!!! • Fill out the information form (the form you fill out when you show up to audition), or make your own • Don’t make excuses (Have a cold, got no sleep, printer is broken) • Make your first 15 seconds count • The 3 C’s (Comfortable, charismatic, confident) • Make a resume (a paper with your information and past experience)

  9. Audition Tips/Techniques Continued • Don’t start over. If you make a mistake, fight through it • Be prepared to do more than what is required • Look presentable: hair, clothes, etc. • Be prepared for a callback (a return audition where you read from the play) • Always audition!!!!!!

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