Theatre Resources for Students and Alumni

Useful links for students, alumni, and theatre artists.

Purpose

  • To provide you, the student, an opportunity to become familiar with auditioning/interviewing procedure.
  • To gain confidence in the audition/interview process.
  • To develop and hone your auditioning/interviewing skills.
  • To provide the faculty an opportunity to observe and aid your growth and development as artists in your field.

All Theatre majors/minors/core concentrators are required to participate in Mocks. Those who do not may be denied consideration for awards, scholarships, and/or other honors and opportunities.

Mock Auditions

Requirements for Freshmen

  • Resume
  • 1 monologue
  • 1 song if you have had, or are in, Musical Theatre Workshop

Requirements for Sophomores

  • Resume
  • 2 contrasting monologues
  • 1 song if you have had, or are in, Musical Theatre Workshop

Requirements for Juniors

  • Resume
  • 1 classical monologue
  • 1 modern monologue
  • 1 song

Requirements for Seniors

  • Resume
  • 1 classical monologue
  • 1 contrasting modern monologue
  • 1 song

Time: Please limit your presentation to a maximum of 4 minutes total for monologues and 32 bars of a song.

Procedure

  • Introduce yourself and the pieces.
  • Perform the pieces.
  • Say "thank you" when finished.
  • Remain in place to receive feedback from the auditors.

Tips

  • Choose selections you believe you can successfully perform, including roles in which you could be cast, in a professional setting (e.g.., appropriate age range).
  • Avoid selections you have already performed in production.
  • Monologues and songs featuring characters pursuing actions, rather than telling stories, are usually stronger.
  • Do not require the auditors to "participate" as an audience might via eye contact or any kind of response during the performance part of the audition.

Suggested sources for more information:

  • Backstage
  • Bay Area Educational Theater Company
  • How_To_Audition.com

Mock Directing/Design Interview

Positions Available

  1. Director
  2. Designer (Scenic, Lighting, Costumes, Makeup, Sound)

Requirements

  1. Resume
  2. Portfolio (examples of previous work)
  3. Concept & Production ideas for Spring 2019: The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. .

(Directors and designers should include examples of research, such as a morgue of images or collection of sounds/music. Designers should include appropriate examples: scenic designers should have a model and/or rendering, costume designer should have sketches, renderings, and fabric swatches; lighting designers should have a plot; makeup designers should have renderings/sketches, sound designers should have audio samples.)

Procedure

  • Introduce yourself.
  • Discuss your analysis of the play (themes, messages, ideas, conflict, main action, style, world of the play). Designers should focus on their particular areas in greater depth and know practical requirements and consider aesthetic qualities of expression (e.g., costume and makeup designers should carefully analyze characters, scenic and lighting designers should carefully analyze visual requirements, sound designers should know required effects).
  • Describe your concept (central metaphor, style, and, if applicable, change of period) and justify it based on your analysis. Directors should discuss possible audience interpretations.
  • Describe how the production or the particular design element will reflect your conceptual ideas. Be sure to use the appropriate vocabulary (e.g., costume designers discuss silhouette, color, texture, etc.; scenic designers discuss line, mass, composition, color, etc.; lighting designers discuss direction, intensity, color, emphasis, movement, etc.) and effective examples (e.g., costume/makeup sketches, a model, audio samples, fabric swatches, a morgue).
  • Be prepared to answer questions about your knowledge of the play and justification for your ideas.
  • Remain to receive feedback from the auditors.

Dress Requirements: Please remember that you are practicing applying for a job.
Seek faculty assistance and advice.

Internships/Jobs

- Internships and jobs at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT

- "We created HigherEdJobs.com to revolutionize the way faculty and staff search and apply for positions in higher education." Founders' Vision for HigherEdJobs.com

- Grants, online resources, professional development, jobs

- On-line casting and job listings 

Graduate/Training Programs

- This is the test required for many graduate schools.

- Theater Graduate Programs in the United States

- Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance (links to masters and doctoral programs)

- Music, Theatre, and Dance Department

Organizations/Publications

- Billed as "the complete online performing arts resource," Backstage offers theater updates, casting news, and columns on the dramatic arts.

- The journal of performance studies online.

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- An online journal focusing on legitimate theater on Broadway, in the West End, and around the world.

- This is a national magazine with features and information on regional, school, and community drama troupes.

- ArtSEARCH Login

Local Organizations, Publications, and Opportunities

- Art, theatre, and music in Cranston, RI

- Artist-run organization for visual and performing arts in Providence, RI

- Located in Westerly, RI

- Located in West Kingston, RI

- Located in Newport, RI

- Located in Pawtucket, RI

- Located in East Haddam, CT

- Located in New Haven, CT

- Located in Pawtucket, RI

- Located in Newport, RI

 - The Greater Boston Theatre Alliance

- Located in Matunuck, RI

- New England Theater Guide

- Located in Providence, RI

Reference/Resources

- By Lulus

- Rankings.com analyzed every GRE prep course offered nationwide, both online and in-person. They established and evaluated seven core factors, not only to determine which was the best, but to provide tools that let students create their own methodology/criteria to help evaluate and compare the researched data.

 - By: Molly Schwichtenberg

- The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film.

- A concise history of Broadway and useful Broadway history links.

- Includes "Greek Mythology in Theater," "Theater Acting vs Film Acting," "A Glossary of Film," and much more interesting information about Shakespeare, playwrights, scripts, etc.

- eScripts and eBooks of public domain texts.

 - A concise history of theatre and useful links.