Audition Preparation
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What to Prepare (Review All Information Below)
The most important thing to prepare for your audition is your audition material. We recommend that you select material that you are familiar with and can perform well. We also recommend that you dress in professional audition attire.
Students must prepare two contrasting monologues, such as a comedic or a dramatic monologue and/or a classical and contemporary at the student's discretion
For those who wish to be considered for the musical production, you must also prepare a pop/rock/r&b/gospel/blues/soul song that shows off your vocal range/style and that best reflects the specific role you have in mind. A verse and chorus is an ideal length. No musical theatre songs please. We ask that you sing your song choice first before sharing your two contrasting monologues, if at all possible, the choice is yours. Please note that anyone singing at Megas must bring their sheet music in a 3-ring binder, marked appropriately as to where the accompanist starts and where they want their cut to end.
The total time allotted for your audition is as follows:
- Two minutes for Undergraduate Actors that are not singing
- Two minutes and thirty seconds for Undergraduate Actors that are singing
- Three minutes for all Graduate Actors
You will be timed from the moment you finish slating your name and when you reach your time limit, you will be stopped and thanked for your audition.
- Two minutes for Undergraduate Actors that are not singing
- Two minutes and thirty seconds for Undergraduate Actors that are singing
- Three minutes for all Graduate Actors
You will be timed from the moment you finish slating your name and when you reach your time limit, you will be stopped and thanked for your audition.
Audition material may be from one or more shows in the UC Irvine Drama season, but you may also use material from other sources.
Please note we will be taking your picture as well for display in the Drama Office at Mega Auditions as well.
Audition Paperwork
Each student must:
- Sign up for an Audition Slot
- Complete a UCI Audition Form
- Provide a Headshot and Resume
- Submit items 2 and 3 digitally on our Digital Mega Audition Submission and bring hard copies to their audition (You need to be signed in with your UCI email to access the submission form.)
It is imperative that you prepare and label your audition paperwork clearly and professionally.
For the Auditions:
Undergraduates bring SIX HARD COPIES of your Audition Form, Headshot, and Resume
Graduate Students bring FIVE HARD COPIES of your Audition Form, Headshot, and Resume
Undergraduates bring SIX HARD COPIES of your Audition Form, Headshot, and Resume
Graduate Students bring FIVE HARD COPIES of your Audition Form, Headshot, and Resume
You will NOT be able to audition without complete paperwork.
Plan to arrive 30 minutes early to your scheduled audition time to check your paperwork with a stage manager.
Please staple your materials together in the following order:
1. Your completed Audition Form
2. Your Resume
3. Your Headshot, facing backwards (so that your headshot is attached to the back of your resume).
Casting Show Information
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The language of Romeo and Juliet often touches on the ideas of the masculine and the feminine. in casting, we view this as an opportunity to embrace, investigate and challenge some of the historical norms. Please feel free to audition for and to state your preference for any and all roles.
Singing useful. Spanish language useful. Please list if you play a musical instrument (classical guitar or accordion particularly useful)
You may audition with a monologue of your choosing from the show.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue, preferably not from Men on Boats.
Students must prepare two contrasting monologues, such as a comedic or a dramatic monologue and/or a classical and contemporary
Please indicate if you have any special skills, like movement, dance, stage combat, singing, clowning, comedia, fluent in Spanish, and or comfortable with spanish (conversationally, etc.), etc.
You do not need to be fluent in Spanish.
Please prepare a pop/rock/r&b/gospel/blues/soul song that shows off your vocal range/style and that best reflects the specific role you have in mind. A verse and chorus is an ideal length. No musical theatre songs please.
Direct all questions to Jake Arpaia, Audition Coordinator, at audition@uci.edu.