Drama

Step 1: Research Drama Programs & Schools

Drama & Theater Arts Audition Programs

Drama & Theater Arts Non-Audition Programs

Step 2: Find & Rehearse Two Monologues

Do's

  • Pick your monologues carefully - They should be age appropriate, from published plays, and contemporary.

  • Read or watch the play your monologue comes from.

  • Rehearse your monologue with a teacher and peers.

  • Showcase your talents. Pick two contrasting monologues (i.e. one dramatic and one comedic). If you're physical, show that off.

  • Consider each school separately. Be prepared to explain why you'd like to attend that school. Show excitement!!!

  • Wear loose fitting plain clothes to your audition.

  • Find more tips here

Don'ts

  • Don't pick a stand alone monologue or a monologue from an unpublished play.

  • Don't pick a Shakespearean or other type of classical monologue

  • Don't pick a monologue that doesn't fit you. For example you shouldn't play a 55 year old if you're 13.

  • Don't keep your monologue too long. Cut it down to a minute.

  • Don't use props or costumes.

Step 3: Prepare Your Audition Videos

Prepare and submit separate uploads of two contrasting monologues. You are also encouraged to upload a musical theater number if interested. Please note that a musical theater song is required for musical theater programs at the noted (*) musical theater programs.

At the beginning of each video, before performing, briefly introduce yourself by providing the following information. View this Theater Recording Upload Video for clear steps recording your monologues or musical song. For support with creating your video, you may view these helpful tips.

  • Your full name

  • Your OSIS student ID number

  • Why you chose your monologue or song (30 seconds or less)

  • Why do you want to study acting? (30 seconds or less)

  • For MONOLOGUES: State the name of the character portrayed and the full title of the playwright.

  • FOR SONGS: State the title of the song, the name of the character, full title of the musical, composer and lyricist.


Video 1 and 2: Monologues

Memorize, perform, and upload two contrasting, one-minute monologues from a published play or the sample monologues library. Examples of this may be dramatic/comedic, classical/contemporary, theater/film, or two contrasting characters that have very different personalities. Choose relatable characters within your natural age range and decide to whom your characters are talking and why. You may choose to play roles of any gender. You may select your own monologues to perform but are welcome to review and choose a monologue(s) from the sample monologues library.


Call Backs

Schools may invite and schedule individual student call backs for interviews/auditions or other on-demand tasks and school specific requirements.

The Drama Studio offers a four-year course of study that includes acting (all levels), voice for the actor, theatre history, directing, dramatic literature/script analysis, playwriting and Shakespeare/classical texts. Students are provided performance opportunities at each grade level through workshops, showcases, and/or main stage productions. In addition, students are exposed to the professional theatre through partnerships with outside organizations, teaching artists, masterclasses, Broadway/off-Broadway field trips, auditions for casting agencies, and international travel of theatre specific locations.

The Drama Studio is a professional training program that provides students with the skills and techniques necessary to pursue a career in acting. This training prepares students to enter directly into professional careers in stage, film, and television or as students into Theater, Speech and Communications Departments of colleges, universities and conservatories. The focus is on career preparation through courses in Theater History and Criticism, Acting, Voice and Diction, Physical Techniques and Dance, and Career and Financial Management. Guest artists have included: Al Pacino, Alan Rickman, Ben Stiller, Jake Gyllenhaal, Adrien Brody, Adrian Grenier, Alec Baldwin, Edie Falco, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Michael J. Fox, Alan Cumming, Delroy Lindo, Peter Facinelli, and Don King (SNL)


Contact - Lee Lobenhofer, Coordinator

In partnership with the professional theater company Waterwell, and built around the core values: engagement and empathy. Students take daily conservatory-style class in acting, movement/devising, voice & speech and theater studies. Each grade also participates in supplementary performance projects including classics, new play commissions, and student-created work. Goal is to develop exemplary artists who are equally engaged citizens.

About the Curriculum - Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts is a small high school which offers a full academic program and comprehensive theatre arts classes. It is a program designed for students who aspire to work in the theatre arts field either as actors or behind the scenes. It is our belief that students benefit from a holistic theatre training program and that is why students do not have specific arts "majors" at Repertory. Instead, they are immersed in a curriculum that exposes them to all the theatrical disciplines (acting, music, dance, design and technical theatre) in an effort to create well-rounded theatre artists. In addition to arts education, students also complete a rigorous academic course load leading many of our students to graduate with advanced regents diploma with an Chancellor's Arts Endorsement.

About the Curriculum - Students take daily drama and movement classes on acting techniques and tuning their physical instruments. Students study theater history, voice and speech, improvisation, and digital filmmaking. Students complete internships with cultural organizations, compete yearly in the National Shakespeare Competition.