Auditions

Auditions for Spring 2010 Productions

The Learned Ladies and Grease

Auditions for both Spring productions will take place on Monday, December  7th and

Tuesday, December 8th from 6-10 pm. Those Students in the Directing Finals on Monday

should sign up for slots on Monday after the scenes or Tuesday.

Callbacks will be held Wednesday, December 9th from 6-10pm.

Please prepare a classical monologue and 16 bars of a song appropriate for

Grease. Please bring the entire song prepared, just in case we ask you to sing more.

ALL B.F.A Musical Theatre majors are required to sing. Actors who do not prepare a song

may be asked to vocalize for the audtion.

ALL Performance majors are required to audition for all departmental productions.

 

Open House Dates for Fall 2010 Students

The University of West Florida will be holding open house dates on:                                                                                                                                      

  • October 17, 2009(NO talent Scholarship Auditions)
  • November 14, 2009(NO talent Scholarship Auditions)
  • January 30, 2010 (TALENT SCHOLARSHIP DAY)
  • February 27, 2010 (TALENT SCHOLARSHIP DAY)
  • April 17, 2010 (No talent scholarship auditions on this date, all scholarships will
  •         have already been determined)
 

What is Open House?

The University of West Florida Department of Theatre encourages you to attend one of the

Open Houses.

Beginning at 9 Am, each Open House will include:

  • a general information fair
  • a UWF preview session
  • a campus tour
  • lunch and a chance to meet with students and faculty members from the many departments

After lunch, interested Theatre students will join us for a "special tour" of the Center for the Fine

and Performing Arts where they will get an up close and personal look at our facilities, meet Theatre

students, and maybe even see a bit of a rehearsal. If you attend the October, February, or April Dates

there will be performances going on, book tickets through the UWF box office.

(Link on the Left side to the Box Office). This open house audition serves as a great way to audition

for the talent based scholarships for the UWF Theatre Department. If you are a technical theatre

student, you would need to bring a portfolio for the interview portion. To schedule an audition on a

Open House date please Contact the Chair of the Theatre Department Charles Houghton at

choughton@uwf.edu

For more info on Open House please visit the Admissions Website.

Preparing for Auditions

Preliminaries

Generally we audition with monologues at UWF. You should always have a classical (something

from Shakespeare inverse works well here) and a contemporary, in your back pocket, memorized

and ready to go.

One minute each is a perfect length. Do not wait until the night before to choose and memorize a

piece, your prepared monologues should be ones on which you have worked and been coached.

Callbacks

Unless the script is an original, there is no such thing as (cold readings). The script exists

somewhere, so find it, and read it. If the director makes (sides) available (portions of the script

to prepare): prepare them. Find out all you can about the character for which you are being

considered, make specific choices, and follow-through with them. If those choices are completely

wrong the director will most likely have you try it a different way, but at least come in to the callback

having thought through the piece.

Postings

Without a doubt, posting are one of the most difficult parts of an actors life. Understand that

sometimes even the best effort on your part will not earn you the role. Factors beyond your control

may be at work against you.

To Consider

There are things you can do to increase your chances:

  1. Schedule: Generally we rehearse in the evenings and it is hard to work with an actor                                                        who has evening  classes or nighttime work commitments.
  2. Tattoos and piercing: While they may look great they often get in your way.                                                           Tattoos that show are  hard to  cover up efficiently and piercing on the tongue and lip                                                       affect the way you speak. Why bother?
  3. Your reputation: Once you get a reputation for being difficult to work with, it sticks. A                                        Colleagues difficulty with you in class or in previous shows can be the determining factor in                                              a tiebreaker situation.  This holds true in the world outside of UWF; Show Business is a                                        remarkably small world, and you can expect that directors and casting directors know one                                          another and talk. A good reputation for being a hard working,  pleasant person will serve you                                           a lot better than a bad reputation will. Play the odds.