Auditioning for the Programme

Application to the Acting Programme currently involves a two-stage audition: the Preliminary Audition and the Recall Audition. You must pass the first stage in order to proceed to the second.

You should prepare three contrasting dramatic pieces of your own choice:

  • One must be in verse (blank or rhymed) from a play by Shakespeare or another Jacobean playwright;
  • One from a modern play written after 1956;
  • One should be a contrasting piece from any period.

No piece should last longer than two minutes.

In addition, you should also be prepared to sing a short unaccompanied song of your own choice.

Preliminary auditions

These are held between November and May in London. The School will also hold auditions in Los Angeles on 19 February and in New York on 22 and 23 February 2010. Applicants should submit the application form above as normal after which contact concerning an audition in New York may occur.

Preliminary auditions will also be held in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 5 and 6 March 2010.

Recall auditions

If you are successful at the Preliminary Audition you will be invited to return for a further two days, at no extra cost, for the Recall Auditions which will be between 23 and 28 May.

If you cannot attend the Recall Auditions, you cannot be considered for a place on the Acting Programme.

Recall Auditions include voice, movement and improvisation work (some of this in small groups), more detailed work on audition pieces and a short interview. You meet and work with many of the staff members who teach on the programme.

Auditions for the Acting Programme: What to expect

Advice to candidates auditioning for the acting programme.