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2024-2025 Season Information
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What to Prepare

Your audition material is the most important thing to focus on. Choose pieces you know well and can perform confidently. We also recommend dressing in professional audition attire (which means clothing that presents you in a way that you want to be best seen).

Requirements:

  • Two contrasting monologues (e.g., comedic and dramatic, or classical and contemporary).
  • For musical auditions (singing): Prepare a song that highlights your vocal range and fits the role you’re aiming for. A verse and chorus are ideal. Please sing first, then present your monologues if possible. Bring sheet music in a 3-ring binder, clearly marked for the accompanist.

Time Limits:

  • Undergraduate Actors (not singing): 2 minutes
  • Undergraduate Actors (singing): 2 minutes 30 seconds
  • Graduate Actors (not singing): 3 minutes
  • Graduate Actors (singing): 3 minutes 30 seconds

Timing starts after you slate your name, and you will be stopped (by a verbal “Thank you”) once your time is up. 

You may use material from the UC Irvine Drama season or other sources.

 

Audition Paperwork

Each auditioning student must:

  1. Prepare your headshot, resume, and UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 (Hard Copy).
  2. Complete a UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 (Digital) (You will need to upload a headshot, resume, and completed UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 [Hard Copy]. You will also need to be signed in with your UCI email to access the submission form).
  3. Bring the required physical copies (5 copies for Undergraduate; 4 copies for Grads) of your Headshot, Resume, and UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 (Hard Copy) to your audition.

You will NOT be able to audition without complete paperwork.

Please staple each hard copy of your materials together in the following order: 

  1. Your Headshot (please display your name clearly somewhere on your Headshot) 
  2. Your Resume (facing the opposite direction outward, so it is back to back with your Headshot)
  3. Your completed UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 (Hard Copy) (on top of your Resumes, also back to back with your Headshot)

It is imperative that you prepare and label your audition paperwork clearly and professionally (as detailed above).

Plan to arrive 30 minutes early to your scheduled audition time to check your paperwork with a stage manager. 

Please note, your uploaded digital headshot may be used for marketing or identification throughout the year. 

 
Casting Show Information & Audition Requirements

Click the Show Title to view Casting Information.
Please also complete the Staged Intimacy and Simulated Violence Informed Consent Form on the UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 (Hard Copy). Scripts will be available to be checked out for a limited time from the Drama Office starting in Welcome Week.
Note: All casting details are subject to change.

9 to 5: The Musical

  • Audition request: 1980s pop songs are encouraged (no songs in the country genre please)
  • Callbacks: will have a Dance call first

Gloria

  • No audition requirements
  • Callback requirement: Must read the full script to be considered for casting
  • A note from our production team: GLORIA contains explicit gun violence, the shooting of a prop weapon on stage, and vivid character death. 

Quit Bitchin'

  • No audition requirements.
  • Callbacks: Prepare for physical movement.
  • A note from our production team: All characters can be played by any ethnicity or race. All characters, except for MAN #1-10, must be female-presenting. 
  • CW: This play explores RAGE in its many forms. There also are discussions of and references to physical violence, death, addiction, and sexual intimacy. 
  • ANTIGONE “Tig” and MAN #1-10 will engage in physical intimacy. All details of this can be adjusted to the comfort level of the performers. 

La Belle et la Bête

  • Audition request: Please list movement and devised theater experience on your UCI Mega Audition Form 2024-2025 (Hard Copy).
  • Note: All actors will play multiple characters, both speaking and moving.
  • Note: Singing is a plus, but not required
  • Callbacks: Prepare for physical movement

Starmites

  • Audition request: Prepare a verse/chorus of a 1970s/1980s pop/rock song (no musical theatre songs please)

All information listed is subject to change. 

Direct all questions to Jo McEvoy, Audition Coordinator, at mcevoyj@uci.edu.