Performance Audition Requirements
BFA Performance Audition
Prospective performance students should prepare two, two-minute monologues:
- One modern (theatrical, non-film, 1880 to present)
- One classical (in verse, Shakespearean preferred)
Additionally, please bring a picture and resume. No additional materials required. However, applicants may elect to present a portfolio representing their additional interests in theatre (i.e., a script or a portfolio of directing work). A brief interview will follow the audition.
Shakespeare Suggestions for Women
Julia from Two Gentlemen of Verona; Act I, scene ii
(“O hateful hands, to tear such loving words...”)
Viola from Twelfth Night; Act II, scene ii
(“I left no ring with her...”)
Joan La Pucelle from Henry VI; Part I; Act I, scene ii
(“Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd’s daughter...”)
Tamora from Titus Andronicus; Act II, scene ii
(“My lovely Aaron, wherefore looks’t thou sad...”)
Portia from Julia Caesar; Act II, scene i
(“Is Brutus sick? And is it physical...”)
Lady Anne in Richard III; Act I, scene ii
(“Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!”)
Helena, from All's Well That Ends Well
Portia, from The Merchant of Venice
Cressida, in Troilus and Cressida; Act III, scene ii
(“Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart...”)
Shakespeare Suggestions for Men
Sebastian, from Twelfth Night; Act IV, scene iii
(“This is the air, that is the glorious sun...”)
Romeo, from Romeo and Juliet
Edgar, from King Lear; Act II, scene iii
(“I heard myself proclaim’d...”)
Richard, Earl of Gloucester from Henry VI
Proteus, from Two Gentlemen of Verona; Act II, scene iv
(“Even as one heat another heat expels...”)