What Are They Looking For When
You Perform Your Audition Monologue?

Tips for preparing for your acting audition.

Monologues Should Be...

• memorized
• carefully timed to the requested length
• relevant to your own age and life-experience
• chosen from a play, not from a monologue book
• supported by character research
• introduced by giving the title of the play that the monologue is from, but don't launch into long introductions or "setting the scene"

 The following is a rubric used by a highschool to score theatre auditions:

Links to More Monologue Tips

Top Monologue Mistakes & Solutions

 
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