Auditions for 2024-25

Auditions for the 2024–25 School Year

Updated July, 2024

***Please note the below information is for the prior audition year and may not be accurate for the 2025-26 audition season. Updated requirements will be posted in August 2024.***

View the 2024-2025 FCPS Gifted and Talented Department Calendar of Opportunities

The Process

SCAPA Lafayette is a Gifted and Talented program serving high school students identified as gifted in one of ten arts areas. In Fall 2023, SCAPA Lafayette and the FCPS Gifted and Talented department reviewed and revised the entire audition process including audition requirements and rubrics in order to merge what were previously two distinct processes. 

In January 2024, the SCAPA audition process and the district-wide Gifted and Talented arts identification process will merge. For the 2024–25 school year, SCAPA students will be recommended for placement through the same audition process as district-wide Gifted and Talented arts auditions. Students will apply and record and submit their audition in January for possible placement for the following school year.

Applications

Students wishing to be considered for a placement at SCAPA Lafayette must first complete the district’s Special Programs Application on SchoolMint open in January.  

Applicants may also include, as additional evidence for GT identification, one or more positive recommendations from an arts teacher/professional who knows you as an artist. Reference contacts will be submitted and sent through SchoolMint. 

Auditions

Gifted and Talented Visual and Performing Arts including auditions for SCAPA Lafayette are recorded and submitted through every middle and high school in the district throughout January and scored by a panel of arts educators from across the district. Your GT specialist or arts teacher at your FCPS school will help you prepare & submit your application and audition.

Non-FCPS students will attend an audition date on a weekday to record prepared and on-demand activities for submission.

Requirements & Rubrics

Each arts discipline has specific audition requirements. Each audition has a prepared component, on-demand component, and brief standardized interview. Please review the audition requirements carefully and work with your GT Specialist or arts teacher at your school to begin to prepare now.

GT Resources

Each middle and high school has a Gifted and Talented teacher assigned to the school. If you have questions about the actual audition and recording process, please contact this GT teacher first. If you have other questions about SCAPA specifically, contact Mr. Marsh at Lafayette. If you are not a FCPS student, contact Mr. Marsh.

Angie Christ, angela.christ@fayette.kyschools.us: Beaumont, Bryan Station Middle & High, Leestown, Winburn, Frederick Douglass.

Jennifer Souers, jennifer.souers@fayette.kyschools.us: Tates Creek Middle & High, Southern Middle, Carter G. Woodson, EJ Hayes, Morton.

Samantha Sewell, samantha.sewell@fayette.kyschools.us: Crawford, LTMS, Jessie Clark, Henry Clay, PL Dunbar, Lafayette.

Private and Home School Students

Applicants who do not attend a FCPS school will attend an on-demand and recording session at Lafayette High School. Monday, January 29 - Dance; Tuesday, January 30 - Theatre Performance & Art; Wednesday, January 31 - Theatre Tech & Literary Arts; Thursday, February 1 - Music & Literary Arts Iowa test; Friday, February 2 - Literary Arts PCA (creativity) test.

2023 FCPS District VPA and 

SCAPA Lafayette 

Audition Requirements and Audition  Rubrics

Art  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Art Audition Requirements  |  Click for Translatable Page   (Art Assignment now posted 12/4/23)

• Art Audition Assignment  |  Translatable Page 

• Art Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Ballet/Contemporary Dance  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Ballet/Contemporary Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page  (Dance sequences now posted 12/4/23)

• Ballet/Contemporary Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Band  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Band Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page

• Band Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Piano  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Piano Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page

• Piano Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Strings  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Strings Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page   (Corrected sight-reading keys 11/16/23)

• Strings Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Vocal Music (Current Grades 8–11)

• Vocal Music Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page   (Required List now posted 12/4/23)

• Vocal Music Required List

• Vocal Music Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page 

Theatre  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Theatre Audition Requirements    |  Translatable Page   (Monologue choices now posted 12/4/23)

• Monologue Required List

• Theatre Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Technical Theatre  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Technical Theatre Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page

• Technical Theatre Presentation Instructions  |

• Technical Theatre Audition Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page

Literary Arts  (Current Grades 8–11)

• Literary Arts Audition Requirements  |  Translatable Page

• Forms Reference List & Poetry Examples

• Literary Arts Rubric (pdf)  |  Translatable Page