Theatre

Auditions

Auditions for Cosi and Into the Woods will take place on December 8, 2008 from 4-6p.m. and December 9th from 4-8p.m.

Call Backs will be held on December 10th, time tba.

Please prepare one Contemporary Monologue and 32 bars of a song.

Sign-up sheets will be posted the last week of November 2008.

The University of West Florida will be holding open house dates on:

November 15, 2008
January 31, 2009
February 28, 2009
April 18, 2009 (No talent scholarship auditions on this date, all scholarships will have already been determined)

The University of West Florida Department of Theatre encourages you to attend one of the Open Houses.

Beginning at 9 Am, each Open House will include:

a general information fair
a UWF preview session
a campus tour
lunch and a chance to meet with students and faculty members from the many departments at UWF

After lunch, interested Theatre students will join us for a "special tour" of the Center for the Fine and Performing

Arts where they will get an up close and personal look at our facilities, meet Theatre students, and maybe even

seea bit of a rehearsal. If you attend the November 15, 2008 Audition you can also see a performance of

Goblin Market, the February 28th date you can see a performance of Cosi, or the April date a performance of

Into the Woods, book tickets through the UWF box office (Link on the Left side to the Box Office).. This open

house audition serves as a great way to audition for the talent based scholarships for the UWF Theatre Department.

If you are a technical theatre student, you would need to bring a portfolio for the interview portion. To schedule an

audition on a Open House date please Contact the Chair of the Theatre Department Charles Houghton at

For more info on Open House please visit the Admissions Website.

Generally we audition with monologues at UWF. You should always have a classical (something from Shakespeare in

verse works well here) and a contemporary, in your back pocket, memorized and ready to go. One minute each is a

perfect length. Do not wait until the night before to choose and memorize a piece, your prepared monologues should

be ones on which you have worked and been coached.

Unless the script is an original, there is no such thing as (cold readings). The script exists somewhere, so find it, and

read it. If the director makes (sides) available (portions of the script to prepare): prepare them. Find out all you can

about the character for which you are being considered, make specific choices, and follow-through with them. If

those choices are completely wrong the director will most likely have you try it a different way, but at least come

in to the callback having thought through the piece.

Without a doubt, posting are one of the most difficult parts of an actors life. Understand that sometimes even the

best effort on your part will not earn you the role. Factors beyond your control may be at work against you.

There are things you can do to increase your chances:

Schedule: Generally we rehearse in the evenings and it is hard to work with an actor who has evening classes or nighttime work commitments.
Tattoos and piercing: While they may look great they often get in your way. Tattoos that show are hard to cover up efficiently and piercing on the tongue and lip affect the way you speak. Why bother?
Your reputation: Once you get a reputation for being difficult to work with, it sticks. A Colleagues difficulty with you in class or in previous shows can be the determining factor in a tiebreaker situation. This holds true in the world outside of UWF; Show Business is a remarkably small world, and you can expect that directors and casting directors know one another and talk. A good reputation for being a hard working, pleasant person will serve you a lot better than a bad reputation will. Play the odds.