Occidental College Have a passion for theater? Please join us! Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 12:30pm Occidental College is offering a workshop along with an optional audition/interview for prospective theater majors and minors. We are looking for actors, directors, playwrights, designers, stage managers, technicians, and narrative filmmakers. Interested students will have the opportunity to meet and work with faculty members and will get firsthand experience of life at Oxy. Starting at 12:30 pm, students will spend the afternoon in workshops, interviews, and auditions, followed by dinner on campus and complimentary tickets to our production of Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, and directed by Edgerton Guest Artist Juliette Carrillo. The play will be staged in our beautiful Keck Theater.
Top row: Keck Theater, The Drowsy Chaperone, 4000 Miles; bottom row: The Liar and Refuge. All Photos by Marc Campos.
Schedule 12:30pm
Arrival and registration - Keck Theater
1:00pm
Welcome and Introductions
1:30pm
Tour of Keck Theater
Acting Audition If you are an actor or director: please prepare 12-14 lines of Shakespeare, along with one contrasting monologue of your choice from a play written in the last 125 years. If you sing, you may present 16 bars of a song, but you must provide your own recorded accompaniment. (We have a sound box available that can play iPods, mp3, cd, etc.) Design and Technical Interviews If you are a designer, stage manager, or technician: we would like to see examples of your work, such as photos, drawings, paintings, prompt books, etc. Playwrights and Narrative Filmmakers If you are a playwright or a narrative filmmaker: please bring a script and/or an example of your work in script form or on DVD, flash drive, etc. After the auditions, design and writing reviews, and interviews, students will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop with theater faculty and current students. 5:30pm
Dinner on Campus
7:30pm
Three Sisters in Keck Theater ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Make your Reservation Interested students must reserve a spot by Friday, November 13, 2015 by registering online at https://admission.oxy.edu/register/theater-workshop-2015. A limited number of overnight stays may be accommodated. To discuss availability, please contact the overnight coordinator at (323) 259-2662. Specific questions regarding the nature of the auditions or interviews should be directed to the Theater Department at (323) 259-2771. Please note that an interview or audition is not mandatory in any way for admission to the Theater Department or Occidental College.