Performing in college productions

CarnegieMT2012
Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:08:39 +0000

At CMU, the first two years of our program are extremely rigorous, so the freshman and sophomores are not allowed to audition for any main stage productions. That’s not to say though that they don’t get the opportunity to perform at school.
For example, we’re in the midst of something amazing right now called Playground, where each year kids propose hundreds of proposals of theater and only about 70 or so get selected for a school wide theater festival. We shut down a week of classes and just rehearse and perform theater for 24 hrs a day. Anyone is allowed to be a part, and anyone is allowed to propose within the school of drama. Everything is proposed such as new plays, new musicals, art installation, etc ,and some of the work here is the best work i’ve seen people ever do here!
That’s just one of many incredible opportunities that the underclassman get, and then once you hit March of your Sophomore year, you audition for the following years season. You are pretty much guaranteed a part of substance only because the classes are so small and we do a multitude of works each season!