Auditions

Auditions are individual and approximately 30 minutes in duration. Callbacks are similar and you may present the same materials or prepare other selections.

Our acting auditions will be in Edmonton, in person, in February 2024.

Auditions will take place:
Saturday, February 17 and Sunday, February 18.

Callbacks will take place:
Saturday, February 24 and Sunday, February 25.

To apply for an audition, please fill out this form. If you aren't able to attend the audition in-person, please indicate that you would like to present your audition over Zoom in your audition application form.

To arrange for a Zoom audition outside of the in-person Edmonton dates, please contact David Ley at david.ley@ualberta.ca.

For your audition/callback prepare:

• Two Monologues: Present two prepared and memorized selections which together are no more than six minutes long. One selection is to be from Shakespeare, and the other from Contemporary (1960's or later) repertoire. Choose selections that are within your playing and age range. We want to see what you can do, not what you cannot do. Please use your regular voice (no accents or dialects).
• One Song Excerpt: Sing an excerpt from a work of musical theatre. Choose a concise piece from a song (ex. two verses and a chorus, approximately 1 min.) in which you can show character and movement. You must provide your own background music (no other vocals) and we will provide a CD/cassette player and ipod dock. Singing a cappella is acceptable.
• One Movement Piece: People who audition bring varying levels of skill to each area. Regarding movement, it is NOT required to already be a dancer.
  • We want to learn about how you move and express things with your body. Over the years people have presented in a wide variety of ways; some have based their presentation in dance but many base it in imaginative movement to music, in another physical discipline (e.g. Tae Kwon Do or Clown), or mime. We suggest that you think about how you could tell a story without words. Then you can find some music that supports it. Choose a story that requires variations in physical activity and movement qualities (aggressive, soft, quick/slow, etc.) and large body movements (not only arms!).
  • Additional Information:
    • Plan for thirty-two bars of up-tempo music or sixteen bars of slow music (approx. 1 min).
    • You must provide your own music and we will provide an ipod docking station.
    • Music may be from any repertoire (classical, musical theatre, rock, or pop, etc.).
• Adjustments/Improvisation: You will be asked to incorporate adjustments to your work and/or to do a movement and/or acting improvisation.
• Script Reading: You may be asked to do a sight-reading of a provided short piece of material.
• Interview: Your audition will include a personal interview with the audition team. We are interested in getting to know you a bit, your experience and background, and your interests and professional goals. We are also happy to answer any of your questions about our BFA Acting program at that time.

Zoom Auditions

For those who cannot meet with Auditioners in person, we welcome "Zoom Auditions". Contact us to arrange this.

Should a live nor Zoom audition be possible, in some circumstances we accept a taped audition. Contact the department. Videos will contain:

• An introduction: Recorded close-up from the shoulders up: state your name, where you are from, and why you are auditioning. Recorded full length - from head to toe: face forward, turn left profile, turn full back, turn right profile, turn full forward.
• Two Monologues: See above.
• One Song Excerpt: See above.
• One Movement Piece: See above.
• Note: Record each piece as one shot (i.e. do not edit together different takes of the same monologue)