AV俱乐部

Application Deadlines 聽

• Scholarship deadline:聽 February 15, 2025
  • Complete your AV俱乐部 application, including all supplemental materials for the Acting program, to be considered for a Fountain Performing Arts Undergraduate Scholarship.听
  • Don't forget to also apply for a AV俱乐部 General Entrance Award (application deadline February 15).
• Non-Scholarship deadline: 聽April 4, 2025

Audition Process

We actively encourage submissions from appliants of all genders, ethnicities, and abilities.

a) Scholarship Auditions:聽 In-person, February 28 and March 7, 2025, Fountain School of Performing Arts (1385 Seymour Street) OR via video submitted by February 28, 2025.

b) Non-Scholarship Auditions: accepted on a case-by-case basis until April 4, 2025, both in-person and video as arranged by applicant.

• When applicants indicate their interest in the Acting program on their online application to AV俱乐部聽University, they will be asked to include/upload the following supplemental materials:
  • a one-page declaration of why you wish to study to be an actor in AV俱乐部鈥檚 Fountain School of Performing Arts Acting Program;
  • 补听current photo and resume of relevant work and experience;
  • 2 names of referees (preferably a former drama teacher, director, community leader or someone with whom the applicant has worked in a creative capacity) who will provide letters of reference directly to the Fountain School. Reference letters must be received at least two weeks prior to the audition date.

• Applicants are asked to prepare three pieces that exhibit their range in performance, each no longer than two minutes in duration:
  • One monologue from a modern play (20^th Century or later). This can be any speech but must be from a published play. After choosing your monologue, read the entire play from which the speech was chosen.
  • One piece of poetic text.听 This can be from a play that uses heightened language, or from a standalone piece of poetry, but must be performed as a monologue from the character鈥檚 perspective.听 We encourage you to pick something you connect to personally.听 Some examples: contemporary poetry, Shakespeare, classical Greek, spoken word, slam, ASL, etc.
  • One Song, unaccompanied, or self-accompanied on applicant鈥檚 own instrument. Can be any form and should be something the applicant connects with personally.听 Some examples: traditional, cover, standard, rap, folk, original song written by the applicant, etc.
• For the purposes of this evaluation, we prefer you perform or present your pieces memorized rather than reading from a script or improvising.
• Applicants may be asked to demonstrate imagination and spontaneity by being asked to re-do their piece or improvise if given direction.
• Wear comfortable clothing and footwear that allows for freedom of movement.

• Video Auditions must be submitted as part of your online application to AV俱乐部.
  
• Video files must be provided through web link to an online video sharing platform (YouTube or Vimeo).听
• Videos should be no longer than 10 minutes in total.
  
• Please record three pieces聽that exhibit your range in performance, each no longer than two minutes in duration: as detailed in the requirements for in-person auditions (above).
  
• For the purposes of this evaluation, we prefer you perform or present your pieces memorized rather than reading from a script or improvising.
• All video should frame the applicant鈥檚 full body to best capture their performance.
  
• Once your package has been received and reviewed, applicants will be contacted to schedule a 10-minute follow-up teleconference interview with the Auditors, where discussion will centre around the applicant鈥檚 goals, interests and expectations.
• During the follow-up interview, applicants may be asked聽to demonstrate imagination and spontaneity by re-doing one of their pieces with direction.

If you have any questions about these requirements, please contact us at performingarts@dal.ca.听

Auditor for the Acting Program:聽Matthew Thomas Walker, Assistant Professor, Acting Program