BFA Entrance Auditions

All clips should be combined into one video and use quality sound and lighting. Be sure to use a neutral, solid color background. Ensure your face is completely visible at all times.

Videos only accepted via Youtube or Vimeo. Submit your video audition and digital headshot and resume to lncooper@liberty.edu.

Following the submission of your video, you may be contacted for a Skype or in-person interview.

• Two contrasting, 60-second Monologues (see Acting Audition Entry Requirements)
• Two 32-bar Song Excerpts (see Musical Theatre Entry Requirements)
• Dance Call (see Musical Theatre Entry Requirements)
• Headshot & Resume

Declared

You have declared the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting on your DCP and will follow all BFA program policies until such time as you are not accepted or choose not to continue to declare the BFA on your DCP.

Accepted

You have completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts program entrance audition and have been accepted by the Department of Theatre Arts Faculty into the BFA program. You will follow all BFA program policies until such time as you have graduated or are otherwise no longer in the BFA program.

In-Person Auditions

Bring a headshot and current resume.

Two 32-bar Song Excerpts

• Song excerpts must be memorized
• From a Broadway musical
• One ballad selection
• One up-tempo selection
• At least one excerpt selection prior to 1965
• Sheet music must be properly marked with start and stop points and in the correct key
• Sheet music must be presented in a 3-ring binder
• Pianist will be provided

One 60-second Monologue

• Monologues must be memorized
• One speaking character
• From a published, Contemporary play – no books or movies
• No props or costumes
• Age-appropriate
• Subject to be worked by the Faculty

Group Dance Call

• 12 p.m. in Green Hall 1008 (Rehearsal Room 1)
• Short Musical Theatre Dance routine will be taught to the group of auditionees
• There will be an opportunity following the group dance call to show a pass of other dance genre specialties (e.g., tap, ballet)
• Attire should be gym or dance attire that is comfortable for movement, with optional shoes for optional genre specialty presentation (e.g., tap shoes)

Video Auditions

Two 32-bar Song Excerpts

Song Excerpts should be a full-body shot

• Song excerpts must be memorized
• From a Broadway musical
• One ballad selection
• One up-tempo selection
• At least one excerpt selection prior to 1965

One 60-second Monologue

Monologue should be medium-shot (waist-high)

• Monologues must be memorized
• One speaking character
• From a published, Contemporary play – no books or movies
• No props or costumes
• Age-appropriate
• Subject to be worked by the Faculty

Slate (close-up shot)

• Name
• Year in School
• Hometown
• Name of School

Dance Audition Video

• Follow the instructor’s directions as shown in the first video
• Learn and emulate the full dance selection as shown in the second video
• Record yourself (full body shot with good lighting) dancing to the song found here on Spotify
  • Le Jazz Hot (Glee Version) – Audio

All clips should be combined into one video and use quality sound and lighting. Be sure to use a neutral, solid color background. Ensure your face is completely visible at all times.

Videos only accepted via Youtube or Vimeo. Submit your video audition and digital headshot and resume to lncooper@liberty.edu.

Following the submission of your video, you may be contacted for a Skype or in-person interview.

• Two contrasting, 60-second Monologues (see Acting Audition Entry Requirements)
• Two 32-bar Song Excerpts (see Musical Theatre Entry Requirements)
• Dance Call (see Musical Theatre Entry Requirements)
• Headshot & Resume

Declared

You have declared the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre on your DCP and will follow all BFA program policies until such time as you are not accepted or choose not to continue to declare the BFA on your DCP.

Accepted

You have completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts program entrance audition and have been accepted by the THEA Faculty into the BFA program. You will follow all BFA program policies until such time as you have graduated or are otherwise no longer in the BFA program.