Theatre College Panel; help! :)

SDonCC
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:41:01 +0000

How to find monologues. Summer pre-college programs. Timing for signing up for audtion slots (my D was lucky her teacher let her reschedule her midterm exam for an audition… not to mention the impact of auditioning in the middle of exam week). How to evaluate the theater program at any non-audition school.

I would think that at any school, families will be coming with a range of intensity about what they want for the college theater experience: some will want that conservatory or intensive acting focus; others will want to know that productions will be of a decent quality and frequency.

My D, for example, pursued two tracks: a limited number of BFA auditions and a wide range of BA schools, and absent BFA success was planning to pick a highly selective university not known as a “theater school” over schools such as Skidmore and Muhlenberg, eg, to which she also applied. So, I guess this raises a question: big fish vs. small fish for an actor. Advantages / disadvantages