Dramatic Arts Audition Requirements

Do you crave the vibrant energy of live performance, and find yourself singing the latest musical theatre songs or acting out scenes in your head? Young Actors at Idyllwild Arts live in a space where ideas, stories, and characters come to life. Our expansive, interdisciplinary curriculum offers students an entire spectrum of Dramatic Arts including acting, musical theatre, production and design or general theatre; creating fully-realized, well-rounded performers and technicians confident in their own abilities and ready for the next level.

Requirements

Acting  

Please submit two prepared monologues from memory of no more than two minutes each.    

• Shakespearean Monologue– Comedic or Dramatic
• Contemporary Monologue (please choose one option)
  • Monologue from a play published after the 1900s 
  • Monologue from a Film
• Sing sixteen bars of a song from a published musical a cappella.

Musical Theatre  

Please submit two prepared monologues from memory of no more than two minutes each.    

• Shakespearean Monologue– Comedic or Dramatic
• Contemporary Monologue (please choose one option)
  • Monologue from a play published after the 1900s 
  • Monologue from a Film
• Sing an entire song from a published musical with an instrumental or piano track accompaniment.

Design & Production

Audition/portfolio requirements will be determined after an interview is scheduled with the Director of Design & Production.

For any questions, please contact admissionteam@idyllwildarts.org.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be uploaded to a file sharing/hosting site such as Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Copy and paste the link(s) to your submission(s) in your application in the relevant field. Please be sure to set your permissions to allow us to view your files.

For those submitting several works, please either combine them all into a single file (such as a PDF or Powerpoint) or add them all to a folder in your chosen file hosting site and submit the link to the folder rather than submitting links to each item individually.

Admission Policy

Idyllwild Arts Academy admits students of any sex, race, religion, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identification to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, color, national and ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identification in administration of its educational policies, scholarship and financial planning, and athletic and other school-administered programs.