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AUDITION INFORMATION – FALL

Production Auditions
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
directed by Peter Glazer
Rehearsals: Sept. 2 through October 9
Performances: October 10-19
Auditions: August 26 & 27, 6-10pm, Zellerbach Playhouse
Call Backs: August 28 & 29, 6-10pm, Zellerbach Playhouse
For audition, prepare a one minute monologue, that best demonstrates your skills as an actor. Materiel with heightened languauge is preferred, but not required. Experience in Shakespeare is not required. Please look at script before auditioning.

Theater and Dance Classes
The following theater and dance courses require an audition for admission into the course:

Theater courses requiring an audition:
10, 11, 110A, 111, 114, 115, 166:2
(Theater 115 is not offered every semester. Please check the departmental course descriptions for confirmation).

You will not be able to enroll in 10, 11, 110A, 111, 114, 115, or 166:2 through Tele-BEARS before the beginning of the semester. You must reserve a time for an audition during the first week of class for admission into these courses. The audition sign-up sheets will be posted in the hallway of 101 Dwinelle Annex on August 1. If you are accepted into the course, the instructor will give you a course control number on the first day that your class meets. You must then add the course via Tele-BEARS. No one will be considered for 10, 11, 110A, 111, 114, 115, or 166:2 without an audition.

Audition requirement for 10: one minute speech from a play, film script or a selection of prose. Need not be memorized.

Audition requirement for 11, 110B, 111 and 115: a one-minute monologue from a play which must be memorized.

Audition requirement for 114:
For actors, one minute monologue which must be memorized;
for dancers, one minute of choreographed (not improvised) movement; for musicians or singers, one-minute of a piece of composed (not improvised), favorite music; for visual artists, bring a piece of which you are particularly proud and be prepared to discuss briefly your process and inspiration. If you have skill in more than one area, choose two and be prepared to show materials for both.

Audition requirement for 166:2: Open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. Audition will include application, vocal work, physical movement, physical contact, scriptwork, and interview. For more information, contact Michael Mansfield: michael@theater.berkeley.edu


TO ASSURE AN AUDITION, REMEMBER TO SIGN UP BEFORE THE DAY OF AUDITIONS.

Audition times:

For access to Zellerbach 7, 170, 317, and 413, enter through the stage door on the north side of Zellerbach Hall next to the Playhouse. Durham Studio Theater is located at the back of Dwinelle Hall and 2401 Bancroft Way is at the corner of Bancroft Way and Dana.

Class lists will be posted the day after auditions on the same bulletin board in 101 Dwinelle Annex where you signed up for your audition. Remember to add the course once you are admitted into it.

Dance courses requiring an audition:
40A (see below), 141A, 142A, 143A, and 149.

All dance students are encouraged to enroll through Tele-BEARS and must attend the first day of class which is the audition and is held during each class' regular time. Students will be advised at the end of the class if they have been admitted. If they are admitted and have not pre-enrolled through Tele-BEARS, it is the student’s responsibility to add the course. Anyone not admitted must drop through Tele-BEARS. NO ONE will be admitted into these courses without the preliminary audition.