Testing out a new piece? Have an old favorite that could use a fresh perspective? This class is perfect for audition prep for the Spring season or simply as a reinvigoration of your classical chops! Juilliard professor and top voice professional ANDREW WADE will work on freeing and warming up your voice and equipping you with the vocal tools you need to show yourself in the best possible light at your next classical audition. The class progresses to a mock audition and a valuable opportunity to meet and work with the Public Theater Casting Director KATE MURRAY.

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Essential Question:

How do you prepare monologues in a way that shows yourself in the best light to a casting director? What aspects of an actor’s preparation are most essential when preparing for an audition? How do you vocally prepare yourself for a classical audition? How do you engage honestly with a monologue in a high-stress environment?

Course Objectives:

• Develop a technique for preparing for auditions

• Explore how Shakespeare’s verse, text and rhetoric provide clues to how to deliver a monologue

• Learn how to create the true life of your character and their surroundings in an audition setting

• Learn how to warm up your voice and body before delivering an audition

Enduring Understandings:

Shakespeare’s verse provides clues for how to develop a truthful character efficiently. Like any tool, it requires training to use it effectively. A flexible, confident voice and body are essential for effective presentation of a character in an audition. Auditions are, by their nature, artificial environments, creating a technique allows you to be committed, brave and truthful under these trying circumstances.